Sexualising Women and Feminising Men
Still remaining are the days of a sports rich culture continuously promoting the sexualisation of women and feminising of men, writes Lauren Kaye.
One afternoon, after school I remember coming home and asking my parents if I could participate in dancing at the age of 8-years-old. When my parents posed the question of why, I simply explained that everyone else was learning to dance and so I wanted to join. Not only was this the beginning of what I recall as the longest 4-year dance experience known to man, but also the first time I remember personally deciding to conform to the “social norm”, whether I knew it or not. I distinctly remember noticing there was a young boy who was also apart of my dance class …show more content…
I stopped dancing at the age of 11-years-old based upon my own personal values and attitudes towards costumes and make up. Growing up around this age I distinctly remember obtaining a strong hesitance to wearing make up due to the fact that is made me feel uncomfortable (different story now at the age of 16) and with the combination of variating short, tight and itchy outfits, I had reached the last straw of putting up with the image driven culture I was surrounded in. Many dance schools use costumes and make up to sell their appeal and marketability. Local dance school Noosa Professional Dance Academy (NPDA), performed a dance during their annual 2014 dance concert called ‘Cabaret’. During this dance the girls were place in revealing and provocative costumes in order to 1. Associate to the dance name and style and 2. Increase the appeal of their dances. It is instances like these that place a massive impact of the choice of learning to dance or not. “I took my six-year-old for a trial (cheerleading) and was hoping for pom-poms and fun but instead it was serious and borderline sexy,” says Emily Toxward mother of two, who also expressed a great deal of resentment to constant sexualisation of young girls in dance culture. Within conditions like these, there is no care for the feelings of their students, if anything it indicates the opinions on their student’s self worth is incredibly low. Under circumstance like these, it is obvious to identify the way in which young girls are being portrayed to increase the attention of themselves of companies for increased popularity and market
Still remaining are the days of a sports rich culture continuously promoting the sexualisation of women and feminising of men, writes Lauren Kaye.
One afternoon, after school I remember coming home and asking my parents if I could participate in dancing at the age of 8-years-old. When my parents posed the question of why, I simply explained that everyone else was learning to dance and so I wanted to join. Not only was this the beginning of what I recall as the longest 4-year dance experience known to man, but also the first time I remember personally deciding to conform to the “social norm”, whether I knew it or not. I distinctly remember noticing there was a young boy who was also apart of my dance class …show more content…
I stopped dancing at the age of 11-years-old based upon my own personal values and attitudes towards costumes and make up. Growing up around this age I distinctly remember obtaining a strong hesitance to wearing make up due to the fact that is made me feel uncomfortable (different story now at the age of 16) and with the combination of variating short, tight and itchy outfits, I had reached the last straw of putting up with the image driven culture I was surrounded in. Many dance schools use costumes and make up to sell their appeal and marketability. Local dance school Noosa Professional Dance Academy (NPDA), performed a dance during their annual 2014 dance concert called ‘Cabaret’. During this dance the girls were place in revealing and provocative costumes in order to 1. Associate to the dance name and style and 2. Increase the appeal of their dances. It is instances like these that place a massive impact of the choice of learning to dance or not. “I took my six-year-old for a trial (cheerleading) and was hoping for pom-poms and fun but instead it was serious and borderline sexy,” says Emily Toxward mother of two, who also expressed a great deal of resentment to constant sexualisation of young girls in dance culture. Within conditions like these, there is no care for the feelings of their students, if anything it indicates the opinions on their student’s self worth is incredibly low. Under circumstance like these, it is obvious to identify the way in which young girls are being portrayed to increase the attention of themselves of companies for increased popularity and market