Dirty Dancing: Downfall and Degradation of morality or... (574 hits)
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Submitted by corn_nugget (View user info) at 2004-04-07 16:18:32 EDT
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Baby has her whole life ahead of her. She's a good girl, wears nice white keds, loves her daddy. After college she's going to join the Peace Corps. Her parents take her on a nice little vacation...
The first thing that intrigues this innocent girl is the dancing. The Dirty Dancing. "Where did they learn how to do this?" she asks.
"Probably in their parents basements, back home..."
She watches everyone rubbing and groping, and you can tell she wants it. She wants some rubbing and groping. Oh, and Johnny gives it to her, alright. He gives it to her GOOD.
He exploited her innocence, tarnished her relationship with her father, and made her spend her entire vacation working.
This, my friends, is the problem with our society. Dirty Dancing.
Notice how all the young, sweet, innocent girls are being tricked into bad boys beds? It's because they grew up watching the cute girl wearing those white keds and tight jean shorts jump into Johnny's bed. They saw the love in his eyes, and they let themselves forget that he's an actor. They spend their entire lives trying to find Johnny.
Girls growing up in the 80s had keds, or, in my case, off brand white shoes that looked like keds (and boy, did they start to smell after wearing them without socks for a week, but that's off topic), they cut their jeans into shorts, and most of them wanted to join the Peace Corps. This was only the beginning.
Then the boys get thrown into the mix. At school dances girls test the waters... a little hip shaking and arm waggling, and the dancing has commenced! Each girl is convinced that if they dance like Baby the boys will notice them. The slow song comes on- the dance floor clears- and each and every girl there is hoping beyond all hopes that a boy will ask to dance. Not just any boy, mind you. They don't want the over-anxious sweet guy. The nerd with the glasses is also out of the running. They want the bad-ass in the corner. The one who pulls their hair during class.
Why? No, don't give me any of that mammo-jamma about social constructs and logical explanations about relationships. Because people, we are no longer animals. We no longer follow our instincts. It's all about modeling ones life on a movie. It's because girls think that one day they will find their Johnny. The boy with the hard exterior and trouble past, the boy who secretly just wants love... ahhh....
So they jump in and out of various beds, hoping to see that loving glint in their partners eyes. It's never there, because bad boys are bad, and good boys are boring... and, well, the sad truth is that the downfall of our morality can be fully attributed to one movie.
It's a pity, really.
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Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2004-04-11 20:01:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
God I hate that movie! Thanks to my girlfriend in H.S. (and my penis convincing me that I needed to get laid at all costs) I've seen that movie about 500 times. Now, if only someone will make a hit movie where the girl falls for the average guy who can't dance, masturbates 8 times a day, works in IT, has a boring past, an even more boring present, a questionable future and a drinking problem. Women will flock to me!
By the way, none of that is true except the "works in IT" part. I swear.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2004-04-11 19:32:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hate the movie, but I like the post
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-04-07 20:54:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh yes... dirty dancing is my favorite movie.
Submitted by Yams (user info) at 2004-04-07 20:25:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I see your point, and its a good one...I suppose I'm quite fortunate to know several fine females my age who have never engaged in any promiscuous activity. How long that will last, I cannot say, but if I have _any_ say, it'll be a while.
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2004-04-07 20:18:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
if women attractive women would stop rooting bad boy and war heroes, the world would be a better place
Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2004-04-07 20:08:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I felt bad for all those nice tennis-playing boys who lost out to 'bad boy dancer' patrick swayze. nobody wants the security of the valley-pass anymore; they want the uncertainty and danger of the rope-bridge-over-windy-canyon that Swayze represented so well.
Perhaps even YOU have watched his hips swivel one too many times?
Submitted by Lyric (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:55:51 EDT (#)
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Good take on it!
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:34:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Exactly!
Now everyone, be prepared for my next post. "Men: They blame everything on Women"
Submitted by iamhewhoisnot (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:27:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
agreed
Submitted by volklcess (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:23:58 EDT (#)
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I liked it corn_nugget. Or I'm just forever lost in the decade that was the 80s...
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:22:41 EDT (#)
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Damn you, Patrick Swayze!!
Submitted by PopCorn80 (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:22:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Why do you suck so much?
I love you.
Submitted by volklcess (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:22:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Amen, sista!
On another note, the 80s totally kicked ass. Bring back the keds! Bring back the aviators! Bring back the spandex! Oh, wait....
:-)
Phoenix
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:20:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
oh jesus christ, why did I mention the keds and jean shorts THREE TIMES?!
hah, damn it all to hell.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:19:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This failed to make a point or entertain. I want a refund!!!
Submitted by Al_Queda (user info) at 2004-04-07 16:19:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Uh, what the fuck ever.