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Twerking is not dancing, but a means to get arousal out of the oppositte sex.
Those are not mutually exclusive categories or aims! Dancing has always had a sexual element. Belly dancing, Polynesian dances, Latin dancing... there are many examples.
eudaimonia,
Mark
RDKirk said:That ain't happening with twerking.
Anything to do with Miley Cyrus, I thoroughly hate, says Dayani, founder of Melbournes Twerkshop classes. Its definitely had an impact, but in a really negative way. Twerking is and has always been underground. Its part of a niche culture, and you cant really bring it into mainstream society and expect people to accept it and take it on and everything it encompasses. Its intrinsically linked with trap and southern hip-hop, so it doesnt translate easily into mainstream culture. This whole commercialism of twerking is void, because you cant isolate twerking from the culture it stems from.
In Melbourne, they have twerkshops and a different attitude when it comes to white females twerking in underground hip-hop.
In Melbourne, it is not a fad.
I believe they said the same thing about Elvis. Elvis the pelvis.
I think it's disrespectful to say that it's sexual just because of the standards of our own culture. There's a reason why it's perfectly acceptable for children to "twerk" in some cultures. It's comparable to hula and belly dancing. They're just unfamiliar forms of performance art.I am not sure where to begin here, but I have seen both men and women, and children doing this dance. Twerking is like sexuality, where one has to show restraint. In other words, there is a time and place for everything. It is one thing to twerk at a club with other 20-somethings, but to do the same dance in front of your children, on a graveyard, and in a church would make it sinful in my opinion because it is so disrespectful.
I don't know about all Polynesian dances, but true Hawaiian hula is primarily religious and historiographical.
Who said anything about hula? I was talking about Tahitian dance. Or are you calling all Polynesian dances "hula"? That's very Hawaii-centric.
I realize that many dances are very old and are part of cultural, and even religious, identity. Those same dances may also have an overtly sexual element that involves significant shaking of the female posterior. Nothing stops being a dance because is has a sexual element, or because it is fairly new on the scene and lacks "history".
You may disapprove of twerking, but it is dance.
You did not say "Tahitian dance," you said "Polynesian dances," which includes hula.
I have a problem with this cartoon and post in general.
Seems that either we are to condemn blacks for immoral dance or teach them not to be immoral.
Either way the we are the problem.
Immorality is a us thing no matter your race,because we are them and they are us People
I'm generally not a supporter of internalized racism/sexism/etc. Just because some people in a community think that something is immoral doesn't mean that others in the community have to conform to that opinion.So you have a black cartoonist criticizing immorality in his own community and you have a problem with that?
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