Beauty twirling into madness
Topless, feathers, Dance Moms and music, all words splashed around on an article written by Jemma Nicoll, UTS journalism graduate and freelance writer. These words have stricken shock and astonishment in the hearts of many after reading about children from the ages 8-15 being over-sexualized through a cultural movement – dance. What used to be smiling, skipping and pirouettes has twisted into crumping, twerking and #tilttuesdays, posing in skimpy undies and crop tops ‘only grownups should be wearing’ as many parents and onlookers have commented.
Personally, as I grew up, I was taught never to judge when I don’t know the full story. Swinging back to the context of dance and how children have seen to be over-sexualized, …show more content…
In fact, two sexual abuse reports have occurred in 1997, Canadian ice hockey and 2014, American football concerning the abuse of coaches to children. It is juvenile/naïve to think that this only occurs within the dance industry, which is what the media has portrayed, and what the readers believe. An ABC television report conducted interviews with parents of dancers who were recently dragged into the spotlight over their ‘over sexualized, provocative’ dance. The parents answered to accusations about letting their children dressing like prostitutes and drag queens well above their age. Additionally, the parents responded with ‘that is their uniform and it is what dancers wear’. Just like a netballer wears a short dress and an iron woman wears bikini swimwear, this is the girls uniform and it is not right to start where there is no fuel. Cunning as the media is, they have swayed our thoughts to see this side of the argument.
“Kids ARE growing up faster today”, says an article written by the daily mail, which dredges up all of the issues surrounding society today which are affecting how Australia’s youth act, dress, talk and behave. Although this may be true, only one side of this topic has been considered. Marika Tiggemann shares that, ‘It is if contemporary girls are in a great hurry to grow
Topless, feathers, Dance Moms and music, all words splashed around on an article written by Jemma Nicoll, UTS journalism graduate and freelance writer. These words have stricken shock and astonishment in the hearts of many after reading about children from the ages 8-15 being over-sexualized through a cultural movement – dance. What used to be smiling, skipping and pirouettes has twisted into crumping, twerking and #tilttuesdays, posing in skimpy undies and crop tops ‘only grownups should be wearing’ as many parents and onlookers have commented.
Personally, as I grew up, I was taught never to judge when I don’t know the full story. Swinging back to the context of dance and how children have seen to be over-sexualized, …show more content…
In fact, two sexual abuse reports have occurred in 1997, Canadian ice hockey and 2014, American football concerning the abuse of coaches to children. It is juvenile/naïve to think that this only occurs within the dance industry, which is what the media has portrayed, and what the readers believe. An ABC television report conducted interviews with parents of dancers who were recently dragged into the spotlight over their ‘over sexualized, provocative’ dance. The parents answered to accusations about letting their children dressing like prostitutes and drag queens well above their age. Additionally, the parents responded with ‘that is their uniform and it is what dancers wear’. Just like a netballer wears a short dress and an iron woman wears bikini swimwear, this is the girls uniform and it is not right to start where there is no fuel. Cunning as the media is, they have swayed our thoughts to see this side of the argument.
“Kids ARE growing up faster today”, says an article written by the daily mail, which dredges up all of the issues surrounding society today which are affecting how Australia’s youth act, dress, talk and behave. Although this may be true, only one side of this topic has been considered. Marika Tiggemann shares that, ‘It is if contemporary girls are in a great hurry to grow