To be fair, I’d bet that the mid-thigh shorts for the guys play a role in package stabilization. But yeah, that in itself is no reason why the women would be running in bikini bottoms.
Here’s an interesting comparison of male and female Olympic uniforms; note from the 1984 pictures at the bottom how the dissimilarity of male and female uniforms has increased in recent years.
I would go so far as to say that there should be some serious upset by parents at their little girls being trolloped out like that for a dance show.
Holy buckets! I’ve never seen that vid before.
That is smoking!
Regards,
Shodan
I like the video because it’s simply the three women dancing. I tend to hate music videos with a bunch of random crap shoved in.
Is that… is that one of the best music videos of all time?
(Of course that video is smokin’. It features Beyoncé, who in my straight female opinion has the most beautiful body in Hollywood.)
They’ll make someone a good whore someday.
The Nordic countries have dropped the Eurovision Song Contest for children because it was felt the children were too sexualized and the other countries didn’t want to change the rules, so they have made their own competition MGP Nordic. It was mainly the South European countries that liked it the way it is. I think it is a cultural difference between northern and southern Europe.
Yikes. That made me feel a little uncomfortable to watch.
Yes, those girls are very talented, and I don’t think any of them were likely hurt by anything they did up there. But it’s more than obvious to me that those costumes are innapropriate - they cover what a bikini would cover (which isn’t really appropriate in an of itself, outside of the context of a beach, pool, or neighborhood sprinkler), but the red and black lace is such a blatant attempt at bordello that if you tell me you don’t see it, I’m not sure I could believe you.
Incidentally, I wonder what people would say if the following act were dancing seven year old boys in Speedos?
Further evidence of the pornization of our culture. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Aaargh, teh oppressive patriayayarchay !!!111!!11
Seriously, as a straight man, I perceive nothing sexual-intended in those female runner outfits. Because it’s impossible to render a female runner attractive for me. If given the choice between one of those and Edward Norton, I’d choose the latter. If I have to have sex with a human full of muscles, well, bring an attractive man.
Even if that’s the case now, it won’t stay that way.
Maybe there weren’t leering pedophiles actually in attendance at this event (though if you think pedophiles don’t sometimes follow children’s dance events and pageants, you’re naive)… but if the girls (and their parents) who think this is OK keep at it, there will be soon enough. And there are unquestionably some watching the video repeatedly, right now…
Just pointing out that someone masturbating to this video doesn’t harm the girls in any way.
And I’m one of the people who said that this was sick and wrong, btw. But let’s not start fear-mongering about how the pedos in the bushes are going to get them.
I know, right?
I was surprised at the question. Of course it’s a phallic symbol. Do people really not see that?
These were my thoughts as well when I watched the vid. Why have flat-chested children do a shoulder shimmy in a routine? If that’s in Beyonce’s vid then substitue something else. It’s like trying to flip the bird at someone when you have no fingers.
I also have a problem with the pelvic thrusts, which is mimicking sex. That’s fine in adult women, but it’s just icky to see little girls doing it.
Not now, at this moment…
Do you think there aren’t predatory pedophiles in the world?
No. Masturbating to this video doesn’t hurt this girls at this moment or the next moment. It won’t hurt ten moments from now, either.
That’s one of the least enlightening interviews I’ve ever seen.
You don’t think it offers any encouragement or inspiration?
You’re welcome.
I’ve already said that I think the girls’ act was incredibly inappropriate. I’m flabbergasted that the audience thought it was OK. But their act wasn’t designed by a creepy pedophile. A pedophile jerking off to it won’t have an affect on whether those non-pedophiles make more acts like it.
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that those non-pedophiles making this act and others like it might have an effect on whether the girls involved–or girls that remind the pedo of these–meet a pedophile up close in the future.
I’m not sure if this is true.
Great little dancers, too little costumes!:eek:
I just saw it on a The Young Turks video, where they showed the whole thing, then commented. The woman was really upset with both costumes & dance moves. The guy said the dance moves was borderline because that is part of the song, but the costumes were way too little & both combined were creepy.
My first thought- “Ladies & Gentlemen, the Kittycat Dolls!”
By age 13 or 14, sure. But at age 13 and 14, girls are already trying to attract boys (of approximately their own age). Knowing how to dress sexy to make boys like you isn’t a great mystery of the universe until you’re 18. These girls have already seen plenty of Saturday morning cartoons of anthropomorphic female animals flashing some thigh and batting their eyes at anthropomorphic male animals and the male animals liking it. Heck, from the time they were 4, they got descriptions of girls with smooth white skin like snow and red lips like blood, and being the most beautiful of them all, gaining the interests and undying fealty of her choice of man. I’m sorry to tell you but if you think children shouldn’t be aware of the differences of the sexes and the games we play until they’re well past puberty, the modern day US has severely failed on that point already. You may well be right that that would be the best course, but I’d vote that it’s pretty futile at this point. The concern isn’t with keeping children away from knowledge of acting sexy, it’s with making sure that their partners are their equals, and in general that’s not really a worry.
The sort of person who molests a child is, overwhelmingly, someone who’s looking for easy prey. He’s not any particularly more obsessed with children or whether they do or don’t look sexy, just whether or they’d feel good and whether he feels secure in his ability to hide the transgression. People who are actually sexually fixated on children are, no matter what the dress code, going to be attracted to whichever child is dressed the closest to whatever the most sexual style of fashion there is in that society. Even if you were to make every child dress the exact same, then it would be the child with the prettiest hair and the most sparkly eyes that attracts him. There essentially is no winning that battle by trying to rein in the standards of decorum. As an individual parent, keeping your child looking grubby and ugly might protect her, but at the same time a child who appears to lack self-confidence might be targeted over one who is prettier because she seems easier to find an in with and because she can be more easily controlled. A girl who is self-confident enough to get out in front of lots of people and dance without hesitation might well be the last one targeted because the offender won’t feel like he can trust that she can be manipulated. Overall, you’re probably better to focus on making sure your child knows what to watch for in terms of inappropriate contact by an adult, that she not feel like she needs to be ashamed by informing anyone about it, and that she not go anywhere private with an adult without being on guard against such behavior and to scream her damn head off if he does the slightest thing. In end result, that would probably be far more effective in keeping your child safe than by keeping her uninformed about the dangers in life and rubbing mud into her hair and dressing her in all gray.