I saw a video of a tiny little girl dancing at a wedding. She was a toddler and was "shaking her booty" to the loud wedding music and the result was a shower of paper currency thrown toward her. The father was outraged and tried to pull her out of the limelight, but the women in the family who were encouraging this shameless showcasing won and kept her in the center of attention. I can agree with the father's disgust at the women encouraging the baby to dance for money. You can see a whole slew of this type of videos on You Tube. It seems like the adults are teaching the babies that it is okay to be rewarded with money for acting sexy or taking your clothes off. Who knows how many of these children will grow up to actually become strippers and learn to really make money for taking their clothes off. Being a dancer for money seems like such an easy way to make money, but the drawbacks of that kind of lifestyle are dangerous and possibly life-threatening. The damage to one's self esteem, the propensity to drink and do drugs, the wanton and sometimes unprotected sex, and the danger of being a victim of assault or other violent crimes is great for a woman who chooses to make her money in that environment. A woman may want to quit dancing and get a legitimate job but if she does, the drop in level of income may forever keep her longing for that fast money she made as a dancer. The violence in that kind of a lifestyle is pervasive and real, from either jealous women or jealous men. Keeping a relationship is almost impossible when you are with a man who cannot understand why his woman is flaunting her almost naked body in front of strangers. People have been severely beaten and killed because of the rivalries that surface due to the tantalizing nature of this kind of lifestyle.
A relative's girlfriend admitted to me recently that she was a barmaid in such a club and as soon as her boyfriend went overseas to serve in the Marines, she was going to spread her "wings" and take a shot at being on stage and dancing. Her eyes were as big as saucers every time she told me about the kind of money the dancers made. All I could wonder was what kind of a wife was this poor young man going to come home to and how many diseases would she be riddled with. Pamela Anderson is hot, beautiful and rich but even she was told, "Damn, you are such a sl*t!" by her then-boyfriend, Kid Rock, who could not stand her promiscuity. That is what all this results in: thinking so lowly of yourself that you would use your body for the almighty dollar. How low would you go? Low enough to use your body to advertise for a cheap car wash? What are we teaching the kids who do go out and stand provocatively on the side of the street to get you to turn your head? What do the honks and catcalls teach them? What do those men think?
Recently I was walking with my daughter and a truck passed by and honked. I said, "Oh yeah, baby, just pull right on over right now so I can get to know you" just so she could hear. I said this sarcastic remark so my daughter would know how stupid and futile males act sometimes. Do they act this way because they feel they are supposed to act this way? If the man had been alone and without his male companion, would he have honked?What about the girls who purposely get wet in their t-shirts and then stand by the street to get attention? Do the girls holding up the car wash signs really think that a man is going to see their hot bodies, pull into the carwash just to try to get a date with them? If so, what kind of a girl would go out with such a man? They have names for women who go out with men who pull over in their cars. I believe they are called employees in the oldest profession. I am trying to teach my daughter to use her brain and not her body to get ahead in life and those 14 or 15 year-old little girls with the signs on the side of the road need to figure out that their bodies may turn heads and get attention but in the long run, that kind of attention is more trouble than it's worth.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentI was attracted to your piece as someone who works in marketing, but repulsed by the way you insinuate exotic dancers are "riddled with diseases" and also work as prostitutes. I was a dancer for several years in college, paying my way through, as were many of the young women I worked with.
Maybe the reason our beautiful bodies are frowned upon is because of people like you, who rush to condemn a beautiful form of expression.
As for how young is too young, I believe it is up to every parent to control and teach their child about that kind of behavior. Fortunately I've saved for my daughter's higher education so she will never have to dance, but what if she wanted to?
Perhaps things will change. The senior citizen population is about to be the largest population, with younger people being the smallest population. Advertising is beginning to shift toward the largest group. And, most of us over 40 don't have much interest in staring at teenagers who are trying to attract other young adults. We'd much rather watch our own age groups.