As the father of a daughter, you only have one job. ONE JOB!
But who knew that for some fathers in Canada, it’s the mothers who are driving them straight to the pole (on weekends from 1-2pm).
A dance and fitness studio in Duncan, B.C. is planning to train girls in aerobic pole-dancing basics before they hit puberty. The Twisted Grip Dance and Fitness Studio is offering weekend pole aerobics classes this fall aimed at children called “Little Spinners.”
The studio is owned by instructor Kristy Craig, a certified fitness and aerobics instructor and member of the Pole Fitness Association.
Craig said she is simply catering to her adult clients’ demands.
“My existing students were asking about it for their children.They were saying, ‘My daughter plays on my pole at home all the time, I’d love her to actually learn how to do things property and not hurt herself.” Students enrolled include children as young as five and a boy.
Craig, who first took a pole dance class four years ago and never worked on the pole as an adult entertainer, said she will keep the focus strictly on athletics. “I treat it just like gymnastic classes … I don’t teach any of the adult moves,” she said.
Twisted Grip is not the first dance studio in B.C. to offer pole dancing for gradeschoolers.
In 2010, Vancouver’s Tantra Fitness made news for similarly allowing underage girls (in group classes as young as nine and private classes as young as five years old) to join with parental permission.
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People are gonna say this is about morals and ethics. That the world is too sexualized and that people have lost their sense of decency. But I think this is about something else.
This is about isolation.
Remember back in the day when all our parents smoked? Smoked at the dinner table, at restaurants, while playing with us in the yard? Why did they do that — because that’s what their parents did. At a certain point in culture, smoking was just part of adulthood. No one realized or cared just how bad it was for you, so everyone did it. And even if your mom or dad decided to quit — your auntie or grandma easily made up for it. No one thought it was dangerous or even rude to light up around their kids, so in their minds they never had to justify it.
Anyone who thinks pole dance aerobics doesn’t has a sexual undertone is lying to themselves. But I suspect that most of the women who take these classes are aware of this fact and were able to justify the decision because it isn’t done at some strip club with dudes watching.
It’s a chance to learn a skill without having to live a lifestyle. To have a little naughty fun in a legitimate setting. It’s making a conscious choice to know and empower your sexuality.
But when you get people thinking that their daughters would also love this, that’s something entirely different. That’s not being able to see the bad side of something or even attempting to justify it. Even worse, it’s making a conscious choice to empower your child’s sexuality, which is just all kinds of wrong ass wrong.
Because if you have that pole at home — what’s that for? Is that only for exercise? Of course it isn’t. And even if you think it is, your husband or boyfriend would be MORE THAN HAPPY to suggest alternate uses for it. And if you’re two consenting adults with a Motley Crue mixtape and some time to kill, then go nuts and have fun — more power to you.
But you know the moment that funtime comes with a need for a conscience? When you wake up the next morning and see your daughter playing on that pole.
The person who sees that and says, “You know what? Maybe I don’t leave this pole installed when I’m not using it because I just saw a horrible version of my daughter’s possible future” is waaaay different from the one who says ”Oh how cuuuuuute!”
If someone feels this way enough to spend $70 a class to make sure their daughter is fully prepared to twerk it on the jungle gym at school — what that says to me is that there’s no one else around with the stones enough to tell them how it looks, or that the person is so isolated in their mindset that they don’t have the damn sense to listen.
Is that really where we’re at these days?
What do you think?
@HexaCorde
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Hex already said what I was going to say. Get a pole that can be removed when it's not in use. Safety problem solved. I hate it when parents say sh*t that sounds like they have no choice but to let their kid do xyz. YOU ARE THE PARENT. Act like it. This is ridiculous.
Pole dancing is sexual. Period. It IS also great exercise, but until strip clubs cease to exist and are far from memory, it will always be sexual. Not appropriate for kids.
Yeah….
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the fact that there's an actual skrippaz class for Honey BooBoo's lookalikes isnt even the problem here.
The fact that the PARENTS ask for their little girls to have the class…..just make me want to stab them in their reproductive area….No one who thinks this ish is a great idea shouldnt be allowed to have more kids….NOPE
f**k nawl. i don't give a rat's fat ass if it can improve strength and flexibility. hell, a number of sports and dance classes can take care of that problem. problem solved. these parents have lost their natural minds asking for a class for little girls. no wonder these kids are being sexualized in pre-adolescence. let them be kids.
WHAT THE HELL IS NEXT…THIS?
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^ HOGAWD! *dead*
girl i been sittin on that GIF for MONTHS waitin for a chance to use it
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what
the
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….praying…..
OUT!
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OHMYGOD I almost peed myself laughing! I hate you for that.
Get. OUT. ——————->
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"fully prepared to twerk it on the jungle gym at school "
SLAYED by that statement!!!!
I have nothing more to add…you've stated it far better than I could. GREAT JOB HEX!!
I was really trying to read past that little comment
*sigh*
I don't know what to do with Hex some days…
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……the offspring can learn to pole dance when she's a legal ADULT. As long as I'm responsible for her, she's going to regular dance class. The end.
Welp when lil Sue comes home with some extra money, no need to question where. Parents planted the seed of pole dancing. Why not enroll their children in regular ol gymnastics. If you really want the pole element, they have tons of vertical poles. Dance…ballet, tap, jazz, etc…so many options.
This entire post and comments = LIFE (esp at work on sinus meds)..
Ya know… I think its safe to assume that Chippendale's dancers get great exercise. But if I bought my sons some vests and bow ties and signed them up for classes, my brothers would walk across country to break my neck.
Putting on my psych hat for a minute, I think these are mothers who feel slightly guilty/ashamed/embarrassed about dancing on the pole, and their daughters doing it make it more acceptable in their minds. BUT— the "Little Spinners" class hosted at The Twisted Grip Dance and Fitness Studio?!?!?! If that doesn't sound PedoBear-tastic, nothing does.
I'm extremely disturbed by this. It's a horribe idea and a horrible precedent. And just..ugh….
their daughter is fully prepared to twerk it on the jungle gym at school
Hell, I can only imagine their shock when the school calls them to discuss improper conduct given the fact they see nothing wrong with it. Or when Creepy McCreeperson down the street starts handing that kid singles for her work. Because I will bet you cash money that is going to happen.
Yeah…the midget gets enough of a workout with martial arts and cheerleading. She does not need to be enrolled in a class that would have her father kicking my azz, just to get exercise.
This pisses me off and I don't even have children. People are so f**king stupid some times.
these people need to have a stadium of seats!!
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wth is that last one
their future
Something to add to their future
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dafaq?! damn
meanwhile pedobear is
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on behalf of the country…
i…
got nothing.
*ultimate facepalm.
I've done a little reading, and I've found that there are literally THOUSANDS of things a girl can do to build strength and flexibility that do not involve a stripper pole.
THOUSANDS.
Sheee-yit, it sez so right here that I'll sign my daughter up for some gat dam Gymkata before I willingly put her on The Pole.
That's right, Gymkata…the thrill of gymnastics and the kill of karate!
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i reallllly wanna watch this now
One caveat – watch this with the understanding that you are watching one of the worst films ever made, and I'm not saying that for mere effect.
There are bad films, of course. Disney's "John Carter" had the misfortune of telling a 19th century story that everyone from Superman to Lawrence of Arabia to Star Wars had liberally ripped off…but it was made well. The sets were stunning, the costumes appropriate to wow, and the camera/cgi work was stellar.
Gymkata is a film abortion on the level of Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space." It is such a trainwreck of perfect storm proportions that it forces one to mix his metaphors describing it.
Knowing this beforehand, this may be the funniest thing you've seen in a long time.
aaaaand this is what happens when you comment without checking to see who's logged in, cuz I am most definitely NOT sneaky, nor am I Russian…gaaaaaaaah…