My 14 year old Daughter saw a "disturbing" Dance yesterday!
By jennybianca
@jennybianca (12912)
Australia
October 25, 2007 11:33pm CST
I didn't quite know how to react when my daughter came home & told me of a dance performance she was required to see yesterday. She is 14 years of age & is in year 9 at high school & does dance as a subject.
She initially described it as very disturbing. As I was quite surprised at this comment, I asked her to elaborate.
She said the men wore very tight shorts & the women wore undies & a T Shirt.
During the dance, there was a satire of Adam & Eve, where Adam did something wrong, & went off to a Gay Bar. He then kissed another man.
Okay, I thought to myself. It always is a bit of a surprise when girls see dance men in very tight shorts or dance pants, but my daughter understood this was for flexibility of movement.
I think she thought women should not wear undies in public either.
I was tempted to ask her if she would have been disturbed if she had seen a hetrosexual couple kiss? Normally, my daughter is very supportive of Gay people's rights. I think she was just very surprised too see it in public.
The satire of Adam & Eve would not have gone down very well with Christians I expect.
Tomorrow she has to write a report on this Dance. I am curious to see what she writes.
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5 responses
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
I am sorry. Really.
I don't see anything wrong with the concept or the dance, and unless your daughter has been inside a dome I'm sure that she is familiar with the idea of homosexuality - you even say that she is very supportive of gay rights - so at the most she might have been surprised by what she saw, but nothing damaging.
As someone said. WRiting the report might help her with the what she saw but other than that I don't really see any harm.
I would be curious to see what she will write as well, it might give an insight on what she is thinking about that dance.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
29 Oct 07
No, she hasn't commented on it since, although she did tell her Step Father about it the same day she told me. I have mentioned to her that her report should be interestiung, as she remembers it so vividly.
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@bonbon664 (3466)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
It will be interesting to see what her interpretation is. 14 is not too young for this type of content in my opinion. Grade school might have been too young, but the whole point of high schoolers seeing this type of thing is for them to realize that there are different types of people in the world, and how they interpret biblical or historical events is all open to interpretation.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
26 Oct 07
Writing the report might be the best way for her to sort out what she felt about what she saw. I think it will be a good way for you to learn about her feelings without her feeling embarrassed or awkward in the telling. I think some kissing and some ways kissing is done is disturbing regardless of who is doing it.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
28 Oct 07
I am not entirely sure what kind of kissing it was? I think just on the lips. But she was surprised to see men do it in public, even though she would have seen hetrosexuals kissing in public.
I hope I get to see her report.
@kagure (21)
• Kenya
26 Oct 07
This can be duisturbing not only to a 14yr but even to me. I have not seen a man kissing a man in public. I think you should go talk to their dance teacher about this and advice them to choose dances that suite the age of these kids or else most of them might drop the subjects they do best. Ok. Lets wait and see the report first.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
28 Oct 07
I hope the kids got some value out of the actual dance moves too.
@mjfdesigns (86)
• United States
26 Oct 07
As a youth leader, I am very saddened about this subject. I find it interesting that our children are subjected to such a show.
In the same schools where they want to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance because it may offend someone, no-one thinks (or cares) that doing so offends someone in the process.
I am glad to read that your daughter had the maturity to talk to you about what she saw. I look forward to hearing what she had to say in her report.
- Mike
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