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

On a serious note im actually interpreting what OP said was on FB as offensive to black girls, because IT IS vulgar! It sounds like "leave the vulgar dance to the black girls who are good at it, it doesn't suit us white girls" depends how you read it, but i think the statement was made by a mixed race girl, in which case she was probably trying to show off, but doesn't realise its actually nothing to be proud of.

I'll let a 14 year old off as they are just finding their way and learning but she's 31.

I like to whistle while I twerk

Funniest thing I've read in ages!!

You are welcome Worra

I can twerk with the best of them.

It always makes me think of Baloo in Jungle Book scratching hit backside on a tree.

white girls can do it - never seen 'Rocky Horror'? It's the Time warp!

Twerking is Butterfly dancing renamed. This originated from Jamaican dance halls. I can understand the argument that whites appropriate black culture and make money from it at the expense of those they exploit.

However saying white people shouldn't twerk distracts from the bigger issue of the racism still endemic in society.

Just look at the Iman/Naomi Campbell initiative in which they highlight the lack of women of colour in the modelling industry for example.

well - I can twerk real good but I only do it at home messing around, makes my teens & DP laugh. We're going to a 50th next week I might try it there & see how fast they disown me

Ive heard the white girls twerking comment..mostly to do with Miley Cyrus & (a) her apparently unshakeable belief that she can actually twerk (she cant & its embarassing) & (b) she lacks the main tool required in the 1st instance - a butt. Its not a new dance, just talked about more since Miley as she seems to be attempting to twerk all over the place.

I wouldnt take too much notice of FB, critical comments on there about almost everyone & everything. Twerking is just a dance, I dont see it as vulgar, dance is fun.

Its good for the waist & glutes tho, thats no lie...

Also off to whistle while I twerk

oh & some white women can twerk well enough. Just..not Miley

YANBU

You can't restrict something to the culture from which it originated.

However, twerking is ridiculous so it can drop off the face of the planet for me.

To qualify, Miley Cyrus twerking looked ridiculous. Me twerking would be ridicuous.

I would no doubt change my mind if I saw someone do it well

Twerking is not the butterfly! Twerking is just thrusting your batty out, the butterlfy is actually dancing!

Yes twerking is nothing like the butterfly, butterfly is a much more fluid movement.

Butterfly and twerking aren't the same.

Twerking is a development of the Butterfly. These moves originate from the Jamaican Dance halls rhythms which are themselves a product of the West African culture from whence the slaves came.

why if you never intend to twerk does it offend you so much

i can twerk well could years ago it was called something else then can not remember what

and i am white

Nobody should twerk. Tis stupid.
Or loll their tongues about like a deranged bovine. Not shegsy.

Twerking is just making your bum cheeks clap! And it wasn't just African slaves that went to Jamaica, Jamaica is full of Chinese, Indian, Spanish even German!

And the butterfly is dancing IMVHO twerking is just clapping your bum.

And also arghh this really annoys me Jamaica is not the only island in the west indies!

Twerking is a development of the Butterfly

It really isn't.

is the butterfly

I am well aware of thast Dragon but thought offering a three paragraph history lesson would be rather patronising . However you seem to have forgotten the Portugese and the Dutch in your list. Oh and the French too.

.. I am referring specifically to Jamaican dance hall. I am aware of the many many other islands in the West Indies. Did you really want me to list every single one of them? Jamaican dance hall has been cited by various black musicians as being one of the main influences upon butterfly and twerking (even Krumping owes some of its moves to it) by musicians and DJ's such as the ying yang twins and DJ Jubilee and Afrika Bambaataa

Twerking is dancing just as much as shuffling from one foot to another is as practised by many many older white men .

If you research the dance culture output of dancer historians such as Pearl Primus, Katherine Dunham, and Alvin Ailey, it becomes clear that twerking and the butterfly are both the 'great great grandchildren' of a myriad of roots styles.

Just thinking, lots of dances look stupid but people still do them. So whats the great big issue with twerking? If youre over a certain age you are very possibly going to be all indignant about it anyway. I mean, I wouldnt go out there & dutty whine but can appreciate some of the women doing it must be bloody fit !

Butterly dance movement is in traditional youth dances in Africa. Not specific to 1 country. Ive seen twerking there too, not as major part of dance just as movement & it doesnt really have the ' vulgar ' connotation it now seems to have in the west.

Im going to scream along with Dragons ...Jamaica is NOT the only island in the Caribbean !

Because its racist Freudian, I know the girl she would not have been making social commentary about whites appropriating black culture. If we accept restricting dances or anything really to the country/ race of origin then we go down a dangerous path.