One Detention To Anyone Dancing. Period.

Betsy Hart writes a blog this week about how dancing in schools is taking it way to far and something should be done to stop all this "sexual" mayhem. I could go on for hours about this but I guess I should make it much shorter because this is a school assignment. I firmly disagree with this woman in the sense that she goes as far as to call dancing "foreplay". Yes, she does make her points to say that dancing provocatively is sexually arousing to some students and she has a point that we shouldn't be dancing so much as to arouse each other. While the rest of the parents in America may agree with her on the fact that dancing like this can be dangerous, I, being a young male, do not. From my perspective no boy in my school would ever take the sexual arousal they receive from a dancing girl and end up raping them in the parking lot, let alone anywhere else on the planet. No guys or girls have the mentality as soon as they walk off the dance floor at the end of the night, they have been so sexually aroused by some harmless dancing that they must go fulfill their sexual needs on some girl who gave them that feeling. That's mindset is ridiculous.
Although I strongly disagree with Betsy she does use the rhetorical question very effectively in her writing style. The most demanding rhetorical question is this: "Because "sexiest child" is yet another competition for parents to engage in?". Second in a string of rhetorical questions attacking parents, this question stood out most to me. It is straight and to the point of attacking the "cool" parents of today's world. It also conveys her point that to be "cool" is not to let your child get raped in a parking lot just so they can have fun for a few hours at a high school dance. You don't have to win competitions to be the "World's Best Parent". Betsy is saying to all parents out there: "Do you think you are cool when your child is in jail or hurt?" That, I believe, is the real question she is asking.
You can see Betsy Harts article here

Imus's Folly

Most women would conclude that any man who has ever said derogatory statements about a woman will always be the same sick man in their eyes, but Laura breaks out from the normal and says how influential this man can be and how he can be forgiven and things forgotten because hes been punished accordingly. This brings me to my own understanding of her points. If a woman decides that she will continue to accept a man that has degraded women then I and everyone else should also agree with her and accept this man back it society. It also seems to me that this man is very influential and he is needed on the air to tell his listeners what they want to know about a certain event or person. In conclusion I would accept this man because of all the better things Imus has done in his life that Laura expresses.
I believe Isaiah Thomas's quotes concerning the differences of a black man and a white man pertaining to what they can say to a black woman are most influential in this column. Isaiah's comment is the most relevant to Imus's situation in the sense that they were both talking about the black woman population and degraded that population as if it was alright. The example works well because it shows a clear cause, Isaiah was not punished at all while Imus was "swiftly and severely punished" for his actions. She does a great job proving her point through all the examples she used.
If you would like to read this column it is accessible here