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girls had lots and lots of way to get "fun and exercise" (Thank you Title IX and a good community park and rec department). Here's just what I can remember participating in over the course of my childhood:
ballet, tap, jazz, "theatre dance", gymnastics (including parallel bars even and uneven, and pole vaulting), soccer, softball, volley ball, tennis, swimming, ice skating, dodge ball, kick ball, cheer leading.
Other girls also played: field hockey, lacrosse, basket ball, track and field, golf and ice hockey. And I'm sure there were more.
Really, what void does pole dancing fill, other than sexualizing pre-pubescence?
