White girls should stop Twerking AIBU

[Thepowerof3]

To find this comment offensive? A FB (sorry!) friend has posted this comment on a video. I have never twerked nor do I intend to but find it outrageous to be told I shouldn't because I'm white

I would definitely look like a berk, but I love Tweetie in that video! She is so no-shit and teaches twerking like it is actually essential and obvious that everyone must learn :o It's like she's teaching CPR or something.

my sciatica said ouch just watching that video. I think I shall have a cup of tea
I doubt skin colour matters when waving your arse around

Only hotties should twerk. Skin colour's irrelevant.

I'm a hottie, I'm going to tweak my way to school right now. Hope the headteacher is watching.

As long as you come back and tell u how it went Notfootball

lady twerk

Twerk not tweak! There goes my street cred.

bet Louise twerks upon the pavving

Notfootball is indeed a hottie.

::offers independent evidentiary proof::

I think twerking is more about the junk in the trunk than skin colour TBH.

It is a typically asinine FB way of referring to an American debate about some white people appropriating black culture which is denigrated when black people perform it and trendy when white people do it.

Not sure I agree with that complaint, but reducing the whole cultural debate to a stupid, uninformative FB status is bollocks, really.

Have never heard of this - does she show how irrecoverably uncool I am becoming?

It looks like you're trying to have a shit.

Why are the Soulja boy lyrics awful they are totally meaningless

I thought it was nice he brought the old superman dance back into it, I used still to do that at parties? I'm missing something aren't I.

Anyway twerking, yes, did that in clubs when I was still a young wee thing, no name then though, its soooooo 1990s

It's been around forever, it is part of a lot of West African traditional dance. It was only know as 'twerking' among African-Americans in the rural Southern states. But as ever, it has got trendy in music vids etc and been repackaged and sold back to us as something new.

I twerk when there is no loo paper to shake the drips off, I don't mean to but my arse has a life of its own. I'm white.

OP YANBU

I prefer a good old krump myself.

Hearts oh my

the power - are they never actually listened to the lyrics, just liked the dance that goes with it, the fact i our 'church youths' were teaching me

To twerk or not to twerk that is the question.

I was getting my mum to do this today in work hahaha, it's not new though we were doing it 10years ago before miley and her nasty tongue.

My bum twerks involuntarily when I move or cough!

Of course it's racist. Like any sweeping generalisation based on skin colour.

But there seems to be a vogue for making 'white people can't' or 'shouldn't statements.

If you replace 'white' with 'black' 'Asian' and it sounds offensive, then it probably is.

Lots of people dance teachers, critics etc. think that black girls can't dance.
My dds said 'really mum, stop it. I'm not even joking.'

My mixed race dd says things like this. Annoying. But she's 14, so I don't judge her too harshly.

An adult saying it?

Idiot.