Once upon a time you danced in a ballroom and grinding was for coffee and meat.
(Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
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Oh come on, that actually requires you to know something. Isn’t it easier to jeust get hopped up on some drugs and make an ass of yourself?
Once upon a time, you danced in a ballroom, and grinding was for coffee and meat, and women wore panties (this wasn’t so far back they hadn’t been invented yet), and movies were black and white, and restrooms were one or the other, and women knew their place and got themselves a husband in a timely manner…
The good old days!
is this blog ran by my grandmother or something?
Seriously. It seems to be run by the Sarah Palin branch of the Republican Party.
Guess her teen daughter missed the whole “not grinding” class….
imho….A more traditional courtship is eventually going to be coming back. It’s more practical and less hurtful. It’s also so much more fun. And Astaire and Rogers, in the 1930s…two very strong individuals in real life…showed audiences how to have fun, while doing something serious. There’s no jumping in the sack within the first 15 minutes of their films. They both had class, and sex was not the point. In regard to good manners Fred said: “No wonder the younger generation have bad manners, when they never see any.”. Instead of throwing what’s past out the window, perhaps it’s wiser to learn things from it. Of course, history never repeats itself in the same way…but quite often…it rhymes.
LOLling at “is this run by my grandmother?”
(even though I actually sort of like this one)
Still.
There is no proof that woman is wearing panties. (and I prefer it that way)
Hate to point it out, but grinding is still associated with meat nowadays.
You, good sir, are made of win.
This is turning into such a geezer site. I expect to see ads for AARP next.
I’m getting so sick of all this “it was better before” complaining that’s infected the entire ICHC network.
Isn’t your own post an example of an “it was better before” complaint?
No, because he doesn’t miss cars with no A/C
Once upon a time Rofl Razzi was funny and preaching was for churches.
Anyway, all those celebs were doing the nasty in ways modern celebs are too stoned to think of, so it’s not like a whole lot has changed except the range of available drugs.
Ginger Rogers was certainly known as a “goer”… wink, wink…
Valley Of The Dolls?
Hard to believe but, once upon a time, dancers actually danced WITH each other. It kinda makes you think, that they actually liked each another too. lol!
“Once upon a time, you danced in a ballroom, and grinding was for coffee and meat…and there weren’t any ethnic people.”
/fixed
I think I love you.
Perhaps that time would’ve been better suited for your self-righteous bigotry.
It’s called sarcasm, you mouth-breathing clod.
Off topic: that is a georgous dress o:
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Sorry, but I agree. Young women today have NO CLASS. I snuck a peek at my THIRTEEN YEAR OLD daughter’s journal and found out her friend showed her a picture of her little boyfriend’s penis! Holy sh*t!! Thank god it grossed my daughter out. Do think that would happen if today’s role models for girls were more like Ginger and Judy than Britney and Lindsey?
Kat- I agree, lovely, isn’t it?
she probably made that story up to freak you out as punishment for being such a snoopy mother. have a little class yourself and give her some privacy.
I think it’s great that she is a concerned mom and knows what her child is doing. Children do not need absolute privacy. I hope my children would come to me and tell me when they are involved in things that are over their heads, but if for some reason they feel like they can’t.. I want to know about it. If that means invading their privacy.. then so be it because I would rather snoop and put a end to something than to have my child be physically or emotionally changed for life.
um. that’s… kind of what being a teenager is all about, being “physically or emotionally changed for life.”
a thirteen year old looking at a penis is not being involved in something over her head. that’s called being a thirteen year old. if they’ve had sex ed like they ought to have before thirteen, they’ve already seen a penis, so it’s not really damaging their “delicate female virtue.”
but really, if you can’t even convince your kid to confide in you, then what power do you think you have over their problems?
Well, how about this… when I was a child I was sexually assaulted by someone my family considered close. I was comfortable talking to my parents about a lot of things and I knew that if I got into trouble I could easily talk to them about it without fear of judgement. However, when this particular thing happened to me, I was afraid to tell them because of the relationship this person had with my family. Had my mother been reading my diary she would have found out about it and been able to help me when I needed it.
I wasn’t saying that looking at a penis is going to change a child. I was addressing other issues that children don’t always feel comfortable mentioning to their parents… drugs, rape, molestation, peer pressure that is leading them down the wrong paths. Children are just that, children. They do not fully understand the consequences of their actions and often times believe they can handle things on their own. I’m all for giving them a reasonable amount of privacy, but I would hate to know my child was in harms way and I had the ability to put an end to it if I had only been concerned enough to do a little snooping.
Situation A: You snoop, find out your 10 year old daughter is being pressured into sexual things she’s not comfortable with and put an end to it.
Situation B: You don’t snoop, you don’t find out she’s being pressured, she one day finds herself in a situation that has gotten even further out of hand and is now an emotionally/physically changed person.
I have a hard time believing anyone would choose situation B if they want to protect their child.
Obviously, the best solution is to teach your child how to avoid situations where they get into trouble and how to say no, but even great parents can’t always ensure that lesson is learned. I would rather be safe than sorry.
And just to clarify, since I really should have said this in my first comment, I would never snoop in my child’s diary unless I felt like there were a reason to. If I noticed behavioral changes or instances that I felt were out of the norm for my child, then I would feel the need to investigate or ask questions.
You’re going to keep your child from being emotionally scarred by (non-physically) violating them?
I think you’re doing it wrong.
Are you crapping me? Judy? As in Judy Garland? She was easily as effed up as Lindsey or Britney. She was 25 when she was commited after a nervous breakdown and soon after tried to kill herself. She was a drug addict for most of her life. I don’t think ill of her for her troubles but I wouldn’t consider her a suitable role model for girls.
Hi, I’m a “young” woman 21 years of age. (13 is a girl still, not even close to a woman) and last time I checked I have some class and most of the other girls I know do too. Paris and Briney are NOT the norm, they’re exaggerations, so chill out.
Also, how exactly do you expect your daughter to learn to trust you if you go around snooping in her diary and such? If by 13 she hasn’t had sex ed and seen a penis already, I’m guessing you signed the waiver to pull her out of the anatomy lesson. In three years your daughter will be learning to drive, I suggest you stop treating her like she’s five, give her some baby wings so she can fall a couple times and you can teach her how to get back up.
I agree with Andrea m! Put some training wheels on that penis and let her ride it!
The point was not my daughter’s take on it, the point was her friend, an 8th grade CHILD, was in a situation to take such a picture at all! What road is that very little girl headed down? Guess I should’ve clarified. I’m sure she knows what a penis looks like, they get health/sex ed pretty early these days. My point was times have changed, and not for the better in many ways. My grandmother raised me, so I got the “old fashioned way” and believe me, I’m the better for it!
I’ll back off when she’s hitting 16/17, by then I’m sure by then I won’t want to know what she’s up to. Thirteen is a baby. I apologize to those of you who think a parent shouldn’t give a crap about what their kids do and let them run wild at younger and younger ages. I wonder how many of you telling me I need to let a child have privacy in MY home have pretty 13 year old daughters with skanky friends!
Sorry to take it so OT, this came up at work the other day, how the “freeness” of modern society isn’t always a good change, and it was fresh in my head when I posted.
no, I got what you were complaining about the first time around. I just think it’s ignorant to believe that teenagers weren’t looking at penises a hundred years ago, same as some of them are today. they had shotgun weddings a hundred years ago, which means there was still premarital sex. we just refused to educate our women on their own reproduction system, and then called them sinners and tramps and forced them into marriages when they ended up pregnant, and then wouldn’t let them out if their husband turned out to be abusive or alcoholic.
a lot of the comments here are saying exactly the same thing… you see movie stars from the 40′s and 50′s and you say it was a “classier” time, but it was a sham. people were just as miserable, drug-addicted, and sex-crazed as they are now. we’re just a lot more honest about it. as a woman myself, I’d rather know the dangers and make my own choices, rather than being set up for failure by a society that’s “protecting” me.
has your daughter started her period? if so, then she’s not a baby anymore. how exactly is treating her like one going to encourage her to make mature, intelligent choices for herself? I’m not saying let her run wild, by any means, but rather than calling her friend a tramp, why don’t you make sure that girl is using protection, rather than insulting her and then condemning her when she turns up pregnant?
I agree. Also, have you seen/heard of the musical Spring Awakening? It plays on a LOT of these themes. In the first scene, the main character Wendla asks her mother for some details on the nieces and nephews her sister has been producing. All her mother can bring herself to say is that she should “love her husband.” The first act ends with a young man–who knows exactly what sex is and how it works–impregnating Wendla, although they don’t know it at the time (obviously).
In the second act, a doctor informs Wendla’s mother that her daughter is pregnant. The mother insults and condems Wendla. “You’re pregnant!” she cries. “But I’m not married!” Wendla protests. Her mother forces Wendla to have an abortion, which she does not survive.
This is only one plotline among several that deal with sexual repression, parental intolerance and pressures, teenage rebellion, and the difficulty of coming of age. SEE IT. IT’S AWESOME.
DogTrainer – Land that helicopter. You need to read “Free Range Kids”.
I’m sorry – you’re invading the privacy of your daughter, and yet you think the CHILDREN of today are immoral?
But maybe you’re right. What we need is to go back 20 years, when young men were out beating the living crap out of each other on the football terraces.
Or maybe ten, fifteen years before that when the Mods and Rockers were having full scale wars in Brighton.
Teenagers and young adults have NEVER been well-behaved, and the idea that the youth of today is any worse than previous “youths of today” is nothing more than an inability to see the truth.
Ginger and Judy ,In their day it was called sexual relationship,and yes they did.It was not all over the black and white.If you did a DNA test back then you will see that many Hollywood stars had more sex than we do today
If I wanted to be preached out I would…
hell, I don’t even know how to answer that since I don’t like being preached at!!!!
I love those Fred and Ginger movies! But really people learn to accept and appreicate new things….
Except stars of that era where probably having nudist parties, and doing coke, and consuming mass amounts of prescription meds. Don’t think anything of that era was clean, and wholesome for one second.
The only difference between then, and now was the fact that the media kept out of their personal lives for the most part.
haters. ballroom dancing is easy, learning hip hop and other forms including jazz are harder. there is respect for all forms and likewise a time and place. don’t hate people that are more coordinated that yourself and get your nose out of your snooty ass
Nope. The idea behind ballroom dancing is to make it LOOK easy. I’ve tried to learn some basic ballroom-style dance steps, and they’re harder than they look.
Yeah, if you were rich and white. Has Dirty Dancing and West Side Story taught you nothing?
When i was a little girl we used to have to walk 15 miles every day in our bare feet through stoney snow covered fields to get to school… Aaaaahhh, those were the days. Yes indeedy dearie.
this isnt funny. who votes for these lolz?
your parents
Also, look up the phrase ‘pancake butt’ in a…um…butt encyclopedia…and you’ll see that picture of Ginger Rogers.
What’s the point of having a butt if it’s as narrow as your head?
What’s the point of anything if your butt is all people pay attention to?
yay for sexual repression!
What the Creator of this obviously meant by this was that back in the day, people were able to PRESENT a more wholesome image to the general, stupid public.
Regardless of the molehills of coke and pills washed down with barrel upon barrel of bootlegged alcohol, usually followed up by Bohemian-style orgies that would have made Caligula cringe, most of the unwashed masses saw these people as elegant and sophisticated – someone to idolize.
The difference today? Even though the general public is still stupid, they’re far more cynical and realistic now to accept any kind of purity. Having said that, I’d hit it…
And by present you mean “create a fantasy world that had no basis in reality”? Also by present you must have meant to include ” to a white audience”……;)
typically the Hollywood “eye” is male and white… meaning that they’re filmed from a white, male perspective, so that those audiences will find the movie more believable.
it’s often not intentional, considering white men have traditionally had the most money to spend on movies in the US, but I’m certainly glad that’s changing (albeit very slowly).
…and by “intentional” I mean “intentionally malicious.” obviously it’s intentional, so the studios make more money.
And there was a time when master/slave relationships weren’t about hard drives.
What’s your point?
WTF = Wanker That Fails. Who made you the effing blog police, don’t like it, GTFO in the mean time just STFU !!!
you certainly have a lot of opinions for someone who wants everyone to go cry on their own blogs. just an observation.
Grandpa? Who gave you your computer back?
“WTF Mate” has a point, however, I’ve been meaning to address an issue for a while. I am 36. I have no children. I still stay out until 5 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, so don’t compare me to your mom. Here’s the deal about mom’s though, whether they’re 30 or 50 or 60 or 180: everything several of you have said is true. Drugs have been around for centuries, some, if not most, of your grandparents had premarital sex and their grandmothers before them. That’s one thing you’ll learn as you grow older, the people you thought were pure and wholesome and didn’t have a clue about your life did a lot of the things you’re doing now. I did drugs, I had sex, I did lots of things. As did most of your parents. I’m sure you’ve all heard your parents say “I don’t want you to make the same mistakes I did”. When I was young I thought they were idiots. They weren’t. “Old people” are a lot smarter, and a lot more experienced than you give them credit for. Even your grandparents, no matter how religious and conservative you think they are now, struggled with religion when they were young, had thoughts of anarchy when they were young, your grandmothers had feminist leanings and yearnings, they thought they were smarter than their parents too. So, when an older person tells you something, don’t get on the defensive and think about this or that thing that you read last week about whatever topic they’re harping on you about – listen to what they have to say. You’ll be better off for it.
Oh, and grinding hit the mainstream when I was 18. I thought it was stupid and animalistic then, and my opinion hasn’t changed. If you spend all that heat on the dance floor, what happens later is going to be anticlimactic.
sorry, but they were fornicating back in those days, too.
You guys are taking this way too seriously, calm down. It’s just a picture.
Three cheers for geez! I just *love* it how everyone thinks these pictures are the base of our society or something, this picture’s caption was created for people to laugh at it, not start a full-fledged internet battle.
For the record, 142978, Allison has every right to look at her daughters things if she feels something is making her daughter act weird.
I am a 14 year old girl, starting her freshman year, and i haven’t yet had “the talk” with my parents. Just because your parents let you run amok when you were 12, doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t have loving parents, who care about us and our relationships.
btw, Ginger’s dress is amazing!
Ginger used her dresses as the “third person” in her dances with Fred….sometimes to his chagrin. Several of them as so iconic that they have been purchased by the Smithsonian, on the mall in Washington!
HAHA 142978! I like how you try to sound intelligent by using the semicolon and the word ramifications when you can’t even capitalize. FAIL at trying to make an educated response. FAIL at your attempted grammar as well.
Ginger Rogers wasn’t assaulted, but she was kidnapped twice…by her father…and had to be found and rescued by her mother. She and Fred made dancing look so graceful and easy….but the reality is that they both worked their butts of to get it right….8 weeks of 10 hour days of practice and figuring their steps. Astaire…Mr. perfectionist himself…said of Ginger: “She had guts”. In real life she was ambitious, down to earth, individualist, and expected men to respect her as much as she respected herself….and she had a lot of self-respect. She was tough, but vulnerable too. she was both highly realistic, but also romantic. she had been type cast as the “dancing girl”…and had to fight for her rights to be considered an actress….and to be paid accordingly. This she achieved on her own….winning her Oscar in 1940. That’s a long time ago….but truthfully she faced the same challenges as women do today…except it was harder then….but she did it.
it’s true. I can’t. it’s a serious disability. you can’t imagine how difficult it was for me to get into college without the ability to capitalize letters on an internet forum.
*golf clap*