Haha, good on all these professional dancers being able to do those moves with a straight face. I'd have lost my shit laughing at least once while doing a full run-through of this.

Seriously though, in comparison to parkour, this is like comparing Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers. Sure Fred was an amazing dancer, but Ginger had to do everything he did, backwards, and in high heels.

Parkour people, with your monkey hands and your four points of contact, are being laughed at right now.

I was on vacation and away from a computer. YES!!! With your help, these cool dancers are enshrined forever on the great and mighty sift!

Thanks again.

Interesting interpretation...but what's with all the people walking right in front of the performance, including the camera man (unless this was a telephoto lens)? The first guy crouched down looked like he was also filming and was trying to not be in the way, so I give him a pass, but many were just walking in front of them like nothing was happening. I felt bad for the dancers, even though I didn't like their dancing much.

Ya, I'm hoping "test footage" means proof of concept and they'll get away from rave-dancer-with-glow-sticks and move toward bad lip read RotJ.

Upvote because he's a good dancer and seems like a nice guy.

They rejected my idea for a can-can line of dancers on top of the building

@newtboy.

I don't see the word fat as anything other than descriptive. That dancer was fat. I am fat. It is just a word. No "calling out" was intended.

What I meant by I wouldn't complain "as much" if men's bodies started being as constrained in the media was my inarticulate attempt to bring a sense of equality to my rant. I agree with you that there are more average looking women on TV. But "more" isn't many. What I was trying to say was -- right now, average looking men are everywhere in the media, way out of proportion to average looking women. That pisses me off. When there comes a time when average looking men start disappearing, my anger over the gender inequality of numbers will fade.

My anger over the under-representation of average-looking won't fade, though. I'll be equally as pissed on behalf of both genders.

I'm glad that you are engaging with me, and much more respectfully than I have engaged with you. I knew I shouldn't use the term "willfully blind." I was peeved and that wasn't fair nor kind. I apologize.

I will stick to "blind," though. The studies are there. Any casual watching of movies and TVs supports my position. So why are you blind, then? The facts don't support your position. Your claim to research is a puzzle to me. What research, when all the research supports my points? I concede your point that it is better than it used to be, but "by far"? No, my friend. Not "by far." Not even close to "by far."

Every little bit helps, though. Thank god for Gabourey and Melissa and Amy Schumer who proudly weighs a stupendous 160 pounds and makes fun of Comedy Central for trying to make her starve herself into stickness.

I remember weighing 160 pounds, when I was in my late 20s. I thought I was fat. Hell, I thought I was fat when I weighed 140 pounds. Now I weigh 240 pounds, and I really am fat. I wish I had Amy back then. Of course, she is a product of the latest wave of feminists who are calling bullshit on... well, the list is long. I'm so proud of her.

And I'm proud of my contribution that made it possible for her to do what she is doing. Yippee for us!

Thanks for such a respectful exchange. My apologies again for my ill-chosen, ill-mannered words.

Yep, it's good to see how well the future-exotic-dancer classes are working these days. I'm sure several, if not most, of these ladies will have great careers in the field.

Sheesh...

He was great. The women were good dancers, but I was sick to my stomach at the sexualization of their dress and their movements. I know that makes me an old fogey, and yes, there are lots of men and women who think it is just fine.

BUT FUCK ALL. The women were wearing bathing suits, for FUCK'S SAKE. They imitated SEXUAL ACTS for FUCK'S SAKE.

Yes, I'm an old fogey. Don't bother coming here to lecture me on my old fogeyness. I GET A FUCKING OPINION HERE TOO.

Ya'll get to post these videos and have fun with them. I get my own fun of PISSING ON YOUR FUN.

It's even steven, as far as I am concerned. I suffer a little bit, and you suffer a little bit. EVEN STEVEN.

(He was great. Don't like the sexualisation of him, either, but at least he was dressed.)

What I took from this.... to the untrained ignorant eye (i.e. mine) it's kinda hard to tell the difference between really good ballet dancers and people pretending to be ballet dancers on the street.

Your video, Dancer Gets Funky at Music Festival, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

So, apparently she is a singer in a band of ex burlesque dancers whose biggest hit was "don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me".

And now she's on Conan schilling for the living embodiment of what's wrong with music today....

My sympathy, she does not have it.

Okay Enzo. I've already been thru this with Newtboy.

I don't want to have another pointless back and forth.

I'm not trying to start a flame war.

So please explain what you're citing as "the truth" in that seemingly bias "rational"wiki page.

[I say that because "hate-train" doesn't seem like very objective or academic terminology]

Please explain away this instance of Sarkeesian's theft and misappropriation of a female artist's work.

http://cowkitty.net/post/78808973663/you-stole-my-artwork-an-open-letter-to-anita

And this instance of fabricated gameplay footage from Hitman: Absolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRSaLZidWI&t=149

The footage she uses in her FemFreq video implies that the ENTIRE point of this section of the game is to brutalize women.

When, in fact, the game penalizes players for killing ANY civilians.

Every other legitimate walk-through of this game & mission clearly shows the player completely avoiding the exotic dancers.

Please do your best to avoid semantics and objectively justify this behavior. Thanks

Woot - Good for her!! I can respect this.
Imaging dancing like that with a 150-200 pound back strapped to you.
She's working harder than most dancers would - Best of luck to her!