Why do twerking and daggering get labeled as lewd?

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

people be mad at asses shaking

but be if they neighbor next door is starving and about to be put out.

Because it clashes with Western puritanism

 

[Cadillac]

just a case of Black people(BW) are doing it , so its ghetto thats why

 

[Will Ross]

Because twerking is tied to stripper culture.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

It’s all bad, idc bout culture or whatever other justifications

It’s all cool to see girls doin that til it’s your daughter then you wanna call it bad

Well it is in our current societal standards it just is what it is, i'm sure you wouldn't want your daughter dancing like that

Would yall consider this inappropriate?

Bucking and twerking tend to overlap and many young ladies in majorette dance troupes dance like this.

 

[Mowgli]

Especially when there are other dances from different cultures and eras that can be just as suggestive or outright sexual? Tango, Belly Dancing, certain Swing Styles etc. I mean Ballet was once considered too suggestive and improper. Do you think one day these two dance styles will be held in the same regard as the others mentioned? Do you think they get a bad rhap due to cultural and generational discrimination?

If the dance isn't appropriate for a kid to do then it's lewd

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Would yall consider this inappropriate?

Bucking and twerking tend to overlap and many young ladies in majorette dance troupes dance like this.

If the dance isn't appropriate for a kid to do then it's lewd

 

[Mowgli]

If your family gathers all the kids around and tells them all to have a twerk contest your family is ghetto as hell.

I'm going all the way up side my daughter's head if I catch her twerking before she gets out of my house

I'm not busting my ass at work putting up with these cacs s*** for her to be Thotvertising for attention

nikka please

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

If your family gathers all the kids around and tells them all to have a twerk contest your family is ghetto as hell.

I'm going all the way up side my daughter's head if I catch her twerking before she gets out of my house

I'm not busting my ass at work putting up with these cacs s*** for her to be Thotvertising for attention

nikka please

Well what if she is grown? Adults dance too.

 

[Swirv]

I have nothing against any dance.

The folks who don’t dance or can’t move their hips are the ones who hate.

 

[Mowgli]

Well what if she is grown? Adults dance too.

Out of my hands.

It's tacky

It's a mating ritual

Hopefully reserved for couples but obviously that's not how it works in 201.

bytches been twerking since Doin the Butt in the 80s


Whoever was doin da butt got slapped

 

[AllHolosEve]

The shyt got connected to harlots, strippers, attention whores, video hoes, ig hoes, etc.

It's not even some shyt you "need" professional training to learn. That shyt's for the club & parties & shyt.

For damn don't want my daughter out here doing this shyt.

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

Would yall consider this inappropriate?

Bucking and twerking tend to overlap and many young ladies in majorette dance troupes dance like this.

Kinda but not nearly as bad as twerking

I’m 19, when girls my age twerk it ain’t for no reason but attention from boy or some type of thot stuff, it’s thot behavior most of the time

Most dancing is art, twerking is some degenerate stuff

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

both are low hanging fruit when it comes to clout chasing/thirst trapping
Again, nothing wrong with decorum and nothing empowering about being overly sexual

 

[Mindfield333]

Second video reminds me of undergrad lol

 

[EndDomination]

Michael Jackson, Prince, Bobby Brown, Jackie Wilson, James Brown and even that theif Elvis have all done that. All are considered great dancers.

Mike, Prince and Bobby did it


But Jackie Wilson and James definitely didn't. That's new school stuff Breh

Elvis did swing his hips left to right tho, pause

The male hip thrusting was considered particularly lewd at the time period.

Most hip-shaking, ass-shaking, titty movement has been considered lewd regardless of the community.

I think pretending as if it hasn’t is a bit of a misrepresentation, from the Middle East to, North Africa, to Central Africa there is cultural “lewdness” that existed independent of Western and White gazes.

I’ve found it kind of interesting that in defense of daggering and twerking, most people invoke the “its traditional African dance” while ignoring the unique ways in which African-American and Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latino communities perceived it from the times of chattel slavery on.