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If they were wearing BURKAS, that would still be complete trash.

Where are their parents? Jesus Suffering Fuck that is inappropriate!

I'll turn myself as soon as the people responsible for putting that display on do...

Yeah...I'm gonna take a pass, thank you.

But for those who need to scrub their brains of All The Single Toddlers, here's a grownup version featuring Brittany from Glee. I'm told she was brought aboard to teach the Gleesters the choreography, and ended up as part of the cast.

http://tinyurl.com/n7kc6j

I will give them this, at least the girls can dance. Painful and inappropriate as it was, the dance skills were impressive. What I couldn't get over was the cheering from the crowd. No one in the audience found it wrong.

Sweet suffering JonBenet Ramsey, my eyes!!! Seriously, I'm not even a guy, but I'll turn myself in to the authorities promptly first thing tomorrow morning.

I could do without the fuck-me boots and I would've liked a longer halter but it's a dance competition. It's just like a bikini halter and bike shorts with a ruffle. When I was younger and danced, I remember there were little ones in just bikinis shaking their baby booties and it was adorable. I probably did some moves that could've been perceived as too sexual but I never thought anything of it 'cause no one ever fussed over it. All I knew was that I was copying my favorite dancers and doing it well. I managed to not grow up into a giant slut-bag. There are kids younger than that doing latin ballroom and that's pretty hot stuff. I don't think it's a big deal. I was just impressed by how these kids were busting a move.

Dustin, sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

So. Wow. Had to think my response through for a full ten minutes.

I have a four year old daughter, and I'll freely admit she has a sense of pre-sexuality to her - likes to be nude, show off her bits (to my eternal misery and stress) and knows that some parts of her body feel just GREAT! These little girls are dancing very well, in a supportive environment. Those things, I can live with just fine.

BUT. The choice to use that song, the outfits and the gestalt imagery they provoke, and the delighted audience - loving it because, 'wow those girls are sexing it up and going hard core just like adults - isn't that a wonder to see?!' I don't let any of them off the hook here - either for allowing that sexualized aspect to enter into their competitions and for indulging their appetite for titillation over the best possible interests of the talented kids.

Could they not have chosen a Missy Elliot song that wasn't too racy? Something just as kickin' to dance to? I like the kid dancers in her videos. And does it REALLY take 'Preteens plus Peaches' to make an impact? I'm far from a puritan, but I don't see how they couldn't have kicked just as much ass in a more age appropriate setting.

The difference here, and the reason why I would support halting this shit straight up, is that this is about adult audiences, adult tastes. This ascendancy of prurient interests into a passive social atmosphere does not bode well for children's psychological safety in modern times.

Sadly, not surprised. Worse, my goddaughter is 10 (almost 11) going on 30. So, what, 12-14 years to go before I sleep peacefully again?

Oh yeah. You should have seen what they tried to have the "girls" wear in the goddaughter's dance recital last fall. I had suppressed that memory, so thanks a lot.

I mean, I'm all for tarting it up - Meghan who cuts my hair was rocking the thigh-high boots over skinny jeans today. As in daaaaaaaamn.

BUT that's icing. When we teach the younglings that pop-tarting their wares, is who they are, we've blown it. Not in a good way.

"This is pathetic, and the parents who allowed their daughters to do this ought to have their breeding capabilities taken away."

And you are so much better posting it on this website, helping to distribute it as much as possible? Why the fuck would you choose to post that video if you have such moral problems with it?

Excellent. Most excellent.

Dustin, sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Posted by: Lindsay at May 12, 2010 9:38 PM

Replica, the last sentence of your comment is the best sentence I have ever read. And I've read Virgil.

sansho that was AWESOME. I had no idea Brittany had that kind of badass rep on her. LOVE it.

It seems to me that that song was featured in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, being performed by the Chipettes. (Seriously, I saw it in a trailer, I did NOT see that movie. Honest. I didn't. What. Stop looking at me.)So, it has been marketed to children already.
Running around in hotpants and halter tops seems pretty white bread compared to some of the ridiculous nonsense that pageant kids get tarted up in. Age appropriate? Maybe not. But in the dance and pageant worlds that is not very provocative at all. I am not saying it is right, or a good idea, but it is certainly not unprecedented.
Those are some pretty snazzy dancers, ya gotta hand it to them.

I'll bet one (or all) of these girls saw the moves on music videos and mimicked them, having absolutely no idea what they signify. To them, it's just a fun dance, something done by the singers they look up to and want to emulate.

But at some point, adults were involved, and they knew exactly what those moves were about. So what, in the name of all that is holy, were they thinking when they dressed them that way, and sent them out on stage to gyrate unformed hips and jiggle breasts that weren't there?

Those little girls were doing a really impressive job, and if they had more clothes on I would say, "hey, might not be what I want my kid doing, but good job!" But since they're dressed like prostitots, it's just too much!

Honestly, the thing that made my bile rise (cuz yeah, I made it the whole way through. Pray.) was the main girl spent half of the fuggin routine with her legs wide open. That kind of standing split thing, you know - literally half of the routine.

Child abuse, plain and simple. I may cry.

I posted this vib on FB last night. My own reaction was a 90/10 split of utter horror and mind blowing impressedness at their dancing.

For the sake of honesty I'll admit, once I ignored the costumes and some of the trashier moves, I was cheering the kids on for their talent.

Then i felt dirty inside and gave myself a bleach detox.

Sciencegeek makes a great point, kids that age mimic without necessarily(had to spell check that word FIVE times) knowing that what they're doing is bad or wrong.
So the kids PROBABLY weren't up on stage thinking about how sexy they looked.
But mimicking bad behaviour is still bad behaviour and yeah, at some point an adult said that aggressive pelvic thrusts, mexican wave bootie drops(which would look awesome performed by ADULT dancers) and standing splits, all while wearing lingerie i can literally go and buy in a store that sells that exact set along side dildos and lube, was okay.
And it's not.

The kids are incredible, incredible dancers, especially the one who takes lead for the last 30 seconds but this shit is wrong on INFINITE levels.

The only solace is I THINK they have tights on under their...well..I dont want to say panties because these days it has saucy implications so their...shorts, shall we say?
We wondered last night if it was a full body sock but there are belly buttons on them kids so its only the lower half.
The tights dont make it okay but...I dont know, I find a weird comfort in them.
Like I say, STILL NOT OKAY but my head continues to go 'at least they have tights on though, there's that'

Blerch, now i'm grossed out.

Disclaimer: Despite what my above comments might suggest to anyone, 'specially people looking for a fight or trolling-I do not condone the videos nor find the girls incredible abilities as reason to excuse the wrongness of whats going on. They could have worn more modest costumes, and certain moves could have been replaced by something more appropriate. So dont get all riled up.

If these little tarts are such good dancers then perhaps they could have done something that didn't look like a burlesque show's pee-wee division.

What I find so ironic is that there areas in the South where this kind of parental behavior is most socially acceptable, is also the most likely place where you'll hear outcries regarding the content of TV, movies, music, books...etc being offensive and sinful.

JonBenet Ramsey and all the A&E series aside, this is a sickness. Why it is more acceptable to treat a child like a juvenile avatar through which parents express their unrealized fantasies (sexual or otherwise)is beyond me. If a stranger does this to a child, we all collectively fire up the torches like angry villagers after Frankenstein. But when parents do this to their own children, it's somehow cute and rewarding. Given what I just saw, how long before one of these acts incorporates a stripper pole? When some prepubescent debutant twirls on it and hangs upside-down by her inner thighs, what do you want to bet some people will cheer wildly and her momma will be crying with pride? The blame doesn't lie with the children, it lies with their brain-dead parents.

I am rather thankful that most of you in here seem to be just as repulsed of this display as I am. If I ever saw my daughter presented like this, I'd show you a dance instructor broken in half by the next day. As parents, it is their responsibility to do what's best for their children. These people have failed epically.

22 seconds... I hate that song anyway, but the little girls bumping and grinding did add that extra "ick" factor.

Hey, strippers gotta come from somewhere. Thanks, crappy parents, for making sure that the sex industry need never face a labor shortage.

Should I catch my goddaughter wearing something like that prior to turning 21, I'll be putting her into a burlap sack and tying it off at the top with a couple of eyeholes in it.

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I hope Chris Hanson came out after that and said to the audience, "I'd like all of you to take a seat."

I mean fuck, they dress kids up like sex objects, make them act like sex objects, present models with childlike bodies as the sexual ideal, and then wave their hands in shocked dismay when they discover pedophilia. It's like shitting on the floor and then asking where the smell is coming from.

And the extra bit of fucked-upness comes from knowing that if they had boys dressed in skimpy clothes and moving like that, there'd be a massive outcry and investigation.

Why can't we just let kids be kids?