Elementary hoe-down, 2006, by Anonymous

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Who: Anonymous
What: Importance of The Future
When: 2006
Where: Markham, Ontario

Everyone wants to be what they see in the videos. The alarming rate at which teenagers develop a sex drive, and a sense of selfishness, has become alarmingly unreal. I even see younger children joining the massive melting pot which is America's non-culture. It is in my opinion that that the corportation (which is now a person, as the person has become the corporation) have devised plans such as these for quite some time - in distraction of real worldly issues. If we're all too busy inside ourselves with insecurity, premiscouity, gossip, and exclusion, we cannot see the bigger picture. And it's right in our sights.

A perfect example is a recent school dance, in which both my and a neighbouring elementary school held a dance to raise money for a certain charity. As tradition, my friend and his cousin would DJ the event, spinning the most popular music for us to dance to in the humid, sticky, body filled gym. To my greatest disgust, a group of girls had formed a large circle around some mid-pubertised boys, dancing as they would in certain rap videos (the ones with the graphic exploitations of women). Boyfriends and girlfriends were swapped, pre-high school love was lost, and most of all, the teachers had no idea what to do about it. Ignorance did not help.

The bottom line is - videos don't just make girls grow insecure, but it does the same for boys. Kids are doing this because they think it's going to make them feel better. It was not common that a teenager ever seriously considered having sex at thirteen, say, even ten years ago. But now, it's a reality. With technology comes a better world? No, I don't think so.

What they don't stop to realize is that they're kids. Thirteen, fourteen, twelve! You don't need to have sex to be sexy - and you don't need to be sexy when you're twelve! People come into schools to inspire and clear the air, but they can't make the media content go away.

We need to be smart about our future, folks.