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		<title>By: How to pick up women</title>
		<link>http://www.queervoice.net/kmcmullen/2007/11/24/betsy-hart-supermom/#comment-195741</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Del</title>
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		<dc:creator>Del</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Asked DD15 about this. She curled her lip with scorn. "You mean, like what they do at homecoming? Why do you think I don't dance?"

Score one for the liberal mom who wants her children to like her!

OTOH I paid $86 for the damned dress. 

I couldn't believe this was as bad as they say, so I googled, and it pretty much is, y'all. Somewhere it was described as "pole dancing, without the pole." One school on the West Coast has rules like "no ankle grabbing" "no bending greater than a 45 degree angle" and "skirts must be fingertip length." See, the skirts are real short, and then the girls lean over and grab their ankles, and then...  No wonder the boys wear those baggy pants. 

(For those of you about to make a remark, the spokesperson laughingly admitted that chaperones aren't roaming the dance floor with protractors.)

&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119543673953997556.html?mod=blog" rel="nofollow"&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; another story about Argyle, Texas. The poor sod is trying really hard. He backed down on the strapless dresses rule (the $86 dress was strapless, but the poor child is flat-chested like her ma) and he's called in dance instructors to demonstrate other kinds of dancing since the kids say that grinding is "all they know how to do." Imagine! a gym full of attractively dressed young people, dancing the lindy, the charleston, or even the waltz! They'll be having so much fun, they'll forget to go out in the parking lot to drink and screw!

Nah, it'll never happen :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asked DD15 about this. She curled her lip with scorn. &#8220;You mean, like what they do at homecoming? Why do you think I don&#8217;t dance?&#8221;</p>
<p>Score one for the liberal mom who wants her children to like her!</p>
<p>OTOH I paid $86 for the damned dress. </p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t believe this was as bad as they say, so I googled, and it pretty much is, y&#8217;all. Somewhere it was described as &#8220;pole dancing, without the pole.&#8221; One school on the West Coast has rules like &#8220;no ankle grabbing&#8221; &#8220;no bending greater than a 45 degree angle&#8221; and &#8220;skirts must be fingertip length.&#8221; See, the skirts are real short, and then the girls lean over and grab their ankles, and then&#8230;  No wonder the boys wear those baggy pants. </p>
<p>(For those of you about to make a remark, the spokesperson laughingly admitted that chaperones aren&#8217;t roaming the dance floor with protractors.)</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119543673953997556.html?mod=blog" rel="nofollow">Here&#8217;s</a> another story about Argyle, Texas. The poor sod is trying really hard. He backed down on the strapless dresses rule (the $86 dress was strapless, but the poor child is flat-chested like her ma) and he&#8217;s called in dance instructors to demonstrate other kinds of dancing since the kids say that grinding is &#8220;all they know how to do.&#8221; Imagine! a gym full of attractively dressed young people, dancing the lindy, the charleston, or even the waltz! They&#8217;ll be having so much fun, they&#8217;ll forget to go out in the parking lot to drink and screw!</p>
<p>Nah, it&#8217;ll never happen <img src='http://www.queervoice.net/kmcmullen/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: Songbird</title>
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		<dc:creator>Songbird</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I'm amused.</description>
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		<title>By: Moderate Libby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Moderate Libby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kids have had sex from the beginning of time. It would be wise for Ms. Hart to wrap her head around that and instead of alienating her children, try to guide them into an understanding of their bodies, their emotions and the responsibilities involved in emotional and sexual relationships.

If this woman does follow through with her intentions, she will likely push her children right into the behavior that she wants to avoid. 

Yes, she will be one tired woman by the time the kids are in their teens. 

God bless them all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kids have had sex from the beginning of time. It would be wise for Ms. Hart to wrap her head around that and instead of alienating her children, try to guide them into an understanding of their bodies, their emotions and the responsibilities involved in emotional and sexual relationships.</p>
<p>If this woman does follow through with her intentions, she will likely push her children right into the behavior that she wants to avoid. </p>
<p>Yes, she will be one tired woman by the time the kids are in their teens. </p>
<p>God bless them all.</p>
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		<title>By: Kathy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;"It consistently stuns me that some of the very same parents who will carefully protect little Junior and Junioress from every scrape and bump early on, who will trail them carefully to super-safe playgrounds and rarely leave them to play unattended even in their own back yards, will then abandon their children to real dangers, including sexual dangers, later on."&lt;/i&gt;

I note that Ms. Hart states her intention to "one day" chaperone every one of her four childrens' dances, which indicates to me that they're pretty young.  By the time they're old enough for dances, she'll likely be as tired as the rest of us mothers of teens.  Then she'll understand that hypervigilant parents like her "abandon" their children to the evils of school dances because they're too exhausted to do otherwise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;It consistently stuns me that some of the very same parents who will carefully protect little Junior and Junioress from every scrape and bump early on, who will trail them carefully to super-safe playgrounds and rarely leave them to play unattended even in their own back yards, will then abandon their children to real dangers, including sexual dangers, later on.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I note that Ms. Hart states her intention to &#8220;one day&#8221; chaperone every one of her four childrens&#8217; dances, which indicates to me that they&#8217;re pretty young.  By the time they&#8217;re old enough for dances, she&#8217;ll likely be as tired as the rest of us mothers of teens.  Then she&#8217;ll understand that hypervigilant parents like her &#8220;abandon&#8221; their children to the evils of school dances because they&#8217;re too exhausted to do otherwise.</p>
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