No, they said the costumes were designed to allow their body positions to be judged. Not sure why they decided to put stockings and garters on them though. Beyonce was dressed more conservatively for heavens sake.
That’s pretty much a problem only in your own mind, not the girls’ or the parents’. Perhaps smut, to paraphrase Tom Lehrer, is in the eye of the beholder?
Not many years later, they will know what it means. And they will be prepared. Not like your ideal, sheltered and ignorant ladies who will have it thrust upon them without warning.
You don’t think there is a middle ground between teaching your kids about love, affection, and sex and dressing them up like Lolita hookers?
I think they need to know about all of those things. Your way ignores the reality of Lolita hookers.
Danblather mentioned something I hadn’t even thought of: They were dressed even more scantily than the dancers in the original Beyonce video. I laughed.
Perhaps some good can come from this video after all.
As a public service, all males could be required to attend a screening of it while they undertake phallometry testing. If they get a woody, they could be tagged and made to wear some kind of distinctive clothing.
As eyecatching as the group of dancer’s outfits were, I managed to watch it and admire the girl’s ability, techniques and enthusiasm without getting a boner once, but YMMV.
Do you not think it’s possible for them to learn about the existence of this kind of thing without them also learning how to do this kind of thing?
Can they be set on the path to learn the right attitudes about this stuff without also doing it at age seven?
I think that my children need to know about murder. I don’t want to ignore the reality of murder. This does not mean that I teach my kids how to murder.
Why should the desire not to ignore the reality of underage prostitutes mean I should teach my kids how to act like underage prostitutes?
(Indeed, having put your logic so starkly, I begin to wonder if you’re even being serious.)
What the hell is a Lolita hooker? Sorry, but this kind of phrase really pings my radar–you guys know the Lolita of the book wasn’t some sultry oversexed nympho, but rather an abuse victim, right?
So are hookers.
I suggest we force parents to watch it, and if they aren’t disgusted we take their kids away.
It’d be interesting to know who actually uploaded it for the viewing of the entire interwebs.
My guess is a parent uploaded it so friends and family could see it and someone stumbled upon it and spread it.
I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
Your analogies are ridiculous. They’re only dancing, fer crissakes. Do all dancers automatically become prostitutes in your mind if they swivel their hips? The problem lies not in what they are doing, but in how you interpret it. You have a problem; I don’t and they don’t.
They are dressed up like hookers, with stockings and garters. If they had been dressed in leotards or some other costume it would be different. You don’t put thigh high stockings, with faux garters, on kids by accident. The costumer was trying to emulate prostitutes just like the movie wardrobe person in the link above was.
personal sensibilities. i personally wouldn’t want a daughter of mine to be prancing up there, but then again to each their own.
i think the everest kid’s parents are a lot more reckless than these girls’ parents.
So if a little girl, playing dressup, puts on her mother’s nurse outfit, she becomes a nurse? When I was a kid, it was fun to pretend to be all grownup. Maybe your childhood upbringing discouraged that kind of fantasy.
When I was a kid, we played cops and robbers and cowboys. Bang, bang, you’re dead! I did not become a cop, a cop killer, or even a cow killer. In fact, I developed a distinct dislike for guns when forced to “play” with them in the military. Possibly our play had the opposite effect you postulate.
Ever put on a costume for Halloween? Is it immoral to pretend to be the devil (think of the kids!)? Is it OK for kids to dress as fairy godmothers but not as witches?
So your implication that dressing as prostitutes (and I think you need to take a look at some dance costumes; they’re not all that different) doesn’t make the child into one. It’s all make-believe. Only the interpretation in your mind is a problem, Mr. Beholder.
So you’d let your ten year old daughter dress up like a whore on Halloween? I mean a literal whore.
It’s all make believe, after all.
They’re dressed up as Beyonce or any other female superstar.
beyonce was actually in an all-black, very encompassing leotard. her curves still filled it out but it was much more tasteful than the two-pieces these girls were wearing.
i wouldn’t let my daughter dress up like this, but i’m lenient to let my sister dress up like this (wouldn’t be happy about it though). the point is, it’s mildly shocking but nothing totally egregious. it’s not life threatening or morally irrevocable. it’s not even pretending to be a whore. it’s pretending to be a dancer and dressing skimpily. nothing inherently whore-ish comes from wearing garters.
I’m aware of that. I never said they were dressing up like prostitutes. Read what I was quoting.
I was responding to this:
My question was for Musicat and I’ll repeat it: If your ten year old daughter wanted to dress up like a literal whore to play make believe, you’d be OK with that?