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• Tuesday, October 23, 2007 01:16 PM

  Pole dancing

  It's not cool, I saw a clip of the Kardashian sisters show, they decided to get a pole in their bedroom, okay they are adults.

  Then their 11 or 12 yr old sister comes in in high plastic stripper heels and starts practicing dancing on the pole, upside down with her crotch and fanny facing the world, dad Bruce Jenner walks in and just removes his daughter giving the older girls a dirty look, like what the fuck are you doing?

  It's disturbing, little girls do not need to learn how to be sexual all the time to men. Little girls with growing feet do not need to be walking around in 4 inch heeled plastic shoes. Who the hell are you people kidding, the brothers and sons are not being given stripper lessons. That's what it is and you don't need to train a daughter that her body is a commodity to sell to people. It's just a different form of control, instead of breed and stay at home it's now be sexy 24/7. Think of how to stay hot hot hot for men all the time. It's still the same message of your most valuable asset is how good you are at pleasing men, getting a man to want you. It's no different that the character of Wendy on Mad Men being perpetually afraid of losing her looks or worrying about a possible scar on her daughters face harming her marital prospects. It's just now instead of getting a man to love you and marry you, so passe, it's their hard on's that need the attention now girls. Being in love and sharing sexual intimacy isn't enough, you've gotta copy the sex industry honey, here's some lessons! It's one thing when it's adult women looking to spice up their marriage, find out what it's like to dance on a pole, without actually going to a strip club, but children, what the hell is wrong with ballet or the playground? I don't care if it is mothers who think it's okay, there are plenty of mothers who know that boyfriend or husband is raping their child on a regular basis and turning a blind eye. Parents aren't perfect and I think it's perfectly acceptable to shame fuck up parents like Britneys, Lindsay's, Jade Barrymore, and women who think it's okay to teach a child a sexual dance and call it playtime. I think some shame does need to be passed around from time to time.

  Also, I am not a sexual prude, but I would damn sure not want an 11, 12, or 13 yr old kid getting BC without my knowledge because the person they are having sex with is more likely to be an adult or older teen preying on them! An 11 yr old isn't even legally allowed in most states to be left home alone and I'm supposed to go oh it's cool if they need BC. No it's not cool because they are probably being preyed on and that message needs to be sent, you need to tell people in authority who is talking you into sex. What if it's a teacher or a parent? Not sure keep it a secret, there's nothing wrong with it and we wouldn't want your parents to get mad at you, here's some protection and no one will ever know. If it's about their safety, the safest thing is to find out who is talking them into sex and letting them know it's not acceptable. I think it is perfectly okay to tell people younger than 13 that they shouldn't be having sex and the person trying to talk them into it needs to be reported. Parents do deserve some notification on what's going on in their childrens lives, they are not little adults with all the same reasoning capabilities that adults have, especially when they haven't even made it to high school yet. It's a tricky line to walk, but parents are legally responsible for every single thing a child does and I find it odd that a teen can get an abortion without their parents knowledge, but just try getting a dentist appointment without a guardians' signature. I know all the arguments in favor of non notification, I know it protects innocents from abuse and abandonment but if i was a parent, I would be pretty pissed that something that huge happened right behind my back and I would hope that I'm paying enough attention to my child that it doesn't happen. I would never take it away, but it seems a damn shame that it's necessary.

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