Texas doesn't have bigger problems to solve?

by Country Girl 23 Replies latest jw friends

  • Terry
    Terry

    Once again people do not want to take on personal responsibility for their actions, or in this case, their in-action. If parents don't want their underage daughters dancing around like strippers, then they need to enforce their parental authority over them and remove them from the cheerleading squad.

    Think of it as a modified "leash law". It is your neighbor's responsiblity to keep their pet in their yard and walk them with a leash. But, irresponsible neighbors act irresponsibly. The pets wander all over biting people, barking at kids, chasing cars, pooping in your yard, etc. The leash law steps in to put a stinging consequence at the end of such irresponsibility.

    So too with the parent's who don't choose to take responsibility for their offspring's actions. What is the consequence for allowing your child to act like a lapdancer or pimp?

    Sometimes people don't think these things through. All actions have a consequence. Weigh the consequence of irresponsibility on the part of parents with results and ask if something can be done as an intervention.

    The problem in American Society is that we are split. On one side "Anything Goes" and on the other side you have the "Thought Police" who act as the ethics officers of the universe.

    I'd say that sanity is somewhere in the middle. But, when anything is discussed people knee-jerk into the extreme positions and nothing gets done but loud chatter.

    Of course, there are always MORE IMPORTANT problems. Always. But, that can't be the means testing of action. Nothing gets down on the extreme ends but mayhem and violence and back-stiffening.

    Provocative cheerleeding is merely very bad manners and devalues the humanity of a young girl who has more going for her than the shape of her ass and how much jiggle she can put in her hip thrusts. It has an effect on young women who are trying harder to make something positive out of themselves; it divides them off. Anything that disunites is damaging to society ultimately.

    We are all naturally good at dividing up into vociferous groups and pointing fingers. It takes a lot more skill to problem solve and create a safe and ethical social group that wants to be a productive team.

    Terry

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Unfortunately, it's all subjective.

    So, they've just created a law that begs to be violated (and perhaps should be violated just to bitch slap the lawmakers/troublemakers/control freaks) and begs people in authority to abuse said authority.

    Individual communities, PTA's, etc, could easily take on this "problem", to whatever extent it is really a problem (and given the MTV viewing habits of most communities, that ain't much.) w/o any state laws needed.

  • Country Girl
    Country Girl

    While I do agree with your point of view, Terry, the point that I am trying to make is that there already *is* a law against this, and enacting another one is just redundant. Of course the girls are devalued when they do this, and you'd think their parents would take some action, but I'm sure some of the parents are very proud of the girls and live through them vicariously, so that pretty much negates any action on their parts. However, there could be complaints from other parents that felt in this way using EXISTING law.

    CG

  • Bas
    Bas

    I for one, as a foreigner, see cheerleading as one of the hallmarks of American culture. And from what i see on tv, it isn't that suggestive.

    what do they end up doing with that freedom - dancing suggestively for the pleasure of men

    Well, I actually think dancing suggestively gives pleasure to the girls themselves too. And again, how suggestive could it be? And sex isn't bad, so suggesting isn't either me thinks. These girls aren't the couse of sexually repressed men being sexually frustrated and easily arroused, the suppresive culture is! Y'all need to loosen up and shake the remnants of sexual repressive doctrine!

    Bas

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