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Full Story. Watch Now. Local News. Weather Traffic U. A POLE dancing company has sparked online controversy by using prepubescent children performing stripper-esque moves to promote a backyard pole-dancing kit.
The 35 second advertisement for the GymPole product features slow motion footage of young girls as they swing around the pole, which is designed for adult use. The video has been viewed more than 1. It helps to take away the negative associations that society has [with pole dancing], while showing it is a fun and good sport. Parenting author and teen girl educator, Dannielle Miller said that adults should not view innocent childish play through a sexualised lens, or shame girls or women based on clothing choice, but still had concerns with the production elements of the advertisement.
On the other hand, Professor Catharine Lumby from Macquaire University says that pole dancing is increasingly seen as a legitimate form of exercise. I let him take his bagel into the living room while I thought it through some more.
The thing is, I want my son to feel good at home. Part of me wanted to just insist that my daughter start wearing clothes outside of her bedroom. About how we are hit with a constant barrage of expectations and judgments about how we should look and talk and dress. One day, there will be an older man on a train who believes her shirt is too revealing, a boyfriend who thinks her dress is too frumpy, and a predator who finds her jeans too tempting.
People will recoil from the fire in her eyes and the knots in her hair and the passion in her voice. They will move away from her loud laughter and quick tears and sporadic leaps of joy.
And that will be their choice. But if I start telling my daughter now that her brother has the right to choose what clothes she wears, what will be the next right that she relinquishes to an uncomfortable male? I had a long talk with my son after breakfast. I reminded him about the time he saw me being cat-called by a man using vulgar words and how badly that made me feel.
That guy liked that you were wearing a short skirt. And yet, on some level, it is. Once girls begin to internalize those voices, they often lose their own.
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