Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dance Policy

I just got back from a school-wide meeting about the Dance Policy. The school officials don't like it when the students grind and pretend to have sex while they are at a school dance. Neither do some parents, apparently. We have been told that some parents are threatening to press charges against the school because of the "inappropriate" dancing that goes on.
Hilarious.
My opinion on all of this is that if people were not meant to be sexually active before they are 18 years old (which is completely irrelevant, anyways [So what if you have survived 18 revolutions around the star]) then either the gods would prevent people from possessing feelings of sexuality before they turned 18. If sex was harmful for people under 18 then humans would have evolved some sort of prevention to it, much like how most grade schoolers don't think about getting laid. But since humans think about sex on a minute-to-minute basis well before they turn 18, it can be inferred that sex is neither objectively harmful nor is it morally wrong for people under 18.
But we are not talking about school-sponsered orgies here, are we? We are talking about get-togethers where loud music is played with cool lights and a big open area. For whatever reason this has turned into an opportunity to grind a guy's groin up against a girl's butt; of course, this can change depending on a dance couple's sexual orientation, but that's the gist of it. I personally think this is actually kind of boring. Yeah, it's sexy but to move, and pulse, and wave, and jump, and swing, and stomp to the sound of the music is a lot more fun than grinding. I would rather go to a crazy dance party than a crazy hump fest, which is what Prior Lake dances are.
But I'm not so slef-righteous to think that grinding is bad for everyone. I would prefer dancing to grinding, but I don't think that everyone should feel this way. It's just my opinion on what is more fun and some people will have a different opinion. Now, when I go to dances I am not forced to grind, nor am I forced to attend. If I don't like grinding I don't have to, and if I am so offended that I don't even want to see it happen I don't have to go. It's not like people are being slaughtered here and you need to intervene to protect human rights, people are just deciding it would be fun to grind so they do. No one is being exploited, no one is being harmed, no one is being hurt; everyone who grinds at the dances finds grinding to be beneficial to their level of happiness and satisfaction in life.
I would say that some people are selling themselves short by voluntarily objectifying themselves as screw toys, but that is their choice to make and I am certainly not going to condemn them for finding fulfillment in a different manner than I do.
So I guess I wish all three parties involved in a school dance would read this- parents, students, and the school officials. Parents need to understand that they cannot maintain their rationality while also suing the school. Students need to understand that what they are doing is not the work of the devil. And the school needs to understand the idea of respect for another's way of life.

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