Ethan+S’s+Final+AmEx+2014+Speech

=Twerking at School Dances=

There are a lot of things people do that other people don’t like or agree with. Drinking, smoking, sexing, cussing, twerking, ect, ect. But the thing is, it doesn’t matter what you think about that persons decisions. You weren’t sent by God to judge whether somebody elses decisions are right or wrong. If it doesn’t affect you why should you care. If someone else is drinking or doing drugs or doing really anything you disagree with, what does it matter to you? That’s what brings up my topic. If I want to twerk at a school dance, why does it matter to you. In the America I want to grow old in, I want to see students being able to freely twerk without administration giving them unwanted detention or kicking them out of ASB. Twerking is a form of self expression. A healthy way to release stress and anxiety.

There are far more beneficial things that come out of twerking then unbeneficial. The only reason that I can think of, that sheds an unsatisfying light on twerking, would be the sexual nature of it as a whole. But after the society that has been raising our generation has sexualized the media in everyway possible I think that is outragious that they think they can control the way we dance. Since the beginning of time, society has used dance as a form of expression, and throughout history it has changed, sometimes dramatically. And every single time it has changed, the new “moves” have ussually been seen as sexual. Twerking is just one of these new “moves,” and society has deemed it overlysexual, but then the light gets shed on the real problem: society overly sexualizing things. TWERKING IS JUST AN EXPRESSION. Why do we need to sexualize the shaking of my ass? It’s just my ass going up and down, or left and right. The booty can’t be tamed, whether it’s sexualized or not. So back to my original point, In the America I want to grow old in, I want to be able to twerk at school dances. And I also want everybody to be able to twerk at school dances. Everybody! Never in my life do I want to have to sign a dance contract that says “no twerking.” It is an expression and should not be sexualized. Just by sexualizing things like this, the school administration has made twerking more desirable. So twerk and don’t let the school administration control you! Take control of your booty. Twerk! In the America I want to grow up in, I want to twerk at school dances. Thank you for your time.

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