Monday, January 3, 2011

Double You Tee Eff

Chances are, you've seen the video of the 8-9 year old girls dancing to Beyonce's Single Ladies (greatest video of all time, according to some). If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch it here. You will also notice another video of some of the same girls a year earlier when they were 7 dancing to My Boyfriend's Back. So what do I talk about first? The severe lack of clothing? The provocative dancing? The promising careers in stripping or hooking? Now, I know that girls in the 16-18 range are likely to do the exact same stuff and it wouldn't raise too many eyebrows (it might raise something else but certainly not eyebrows). But all of these girls are under the age of 10. I would ask where the parents are but they can clearly be heard cheering on the kids from the crowd. Now I don't have any children of my own but I'm fairly certain that ther is no way I would let any daughters of mine strut around like this while they were still in elementary school. So I'll just ask you this: would you let your daughter dress/dance like this? You may also notice on that link that there is a poll that asks that very question. Surprisingly, at the time of this writing, 5,384 people voted yes. So I ask again, WTF?

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