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
2 comments:
Franky J,
I knew i find another great mind to agree with me. I understand your points and I think Old Betsy takes it too far and makes us sound like mindless,sexcraving animals. Well played.
-B$
i like your thoughts on this Andrew. However, you have to be careful to avoid sweeping generalizations. In your article you stated, "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."
No guys...ever? This is like the basic multiple choice verity that if a word like, "never" is used you know that's not the right answer. Most may not, and I hope that's true. However, common sense seems to indicate that some might. This weakens your argument. Enjoy the weekend.
Mr. Brandt
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