Making a statement no matter how important or unimportant it is

[4850prez05]

Here is a letter I am sending to the school board in regards to their "freak dance" policy. This is not out of spite, but out of the fact i dont want be paranoid when i dance at prom. tell me what you guys think of it

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The contrary perspective

[angryyoungman13]

Well on Fish's behalf, I suppose there is something admirable about standing up for that which you believe; however, I concur with Logan in that you really don't have a case.

Others have pretty much refuted you, Fish, which is why I'll simply refute your point, Gavin. First of all, the logic you're using is shaky at best:

"Freaking can help release sexual tension and result in a lower post dance fornication rate."

First and foremost, there really is nothing to back this up. In modern society, we are taught that we need to release sexual tension as if it will burst out of us if we do not. That's why people claim that masturbation is healthy. If this is the case, would it not be so that the people who do not masturbate or freak dance (not that I am comparing the two, seeing as one is dry humping) would constantly be in danger of their sexual tension breaking? Last time I checked, I don't have the urge to jump on every girl I see just because I don't do those things. I kind of find it weak to be a slave to your own body's urges. If you can't control something so simple, what can you control?

"...i find it counter productive when a school board bans a dance...a dance i remind you... in order to prevent teens from having sex."

I don't recall anyone ever saying that was the purpose of banning 'freak dancing.' I do, however, know that a school that allows it to happen is endorsing what you call "the release of sexual tension." If all dancing does this, then there probably wouldn't be any dances. Mind you, I did not 'freak dance' while I was at Winter Formal, but rather participated in tasteful dancing. Oddly enough, I did not feel alleviated of sexual tension as you claim. In fact, I did not want to have sex any more or less than when I walked in that door, so the urge stayed at nonexistent. I also agree with Emily Steelhammer's comment below on this subject.
I digress, though, and remind you that no one said that the prevention of 'freak dancing' reduced teenage sex. If they really wanted teens to stop having sex, they would pressure state or national government to pass laws that made it so minors could not use any form of birth control including abortions, which would greatly deter people from taking the risk. I don't suggest doing that, but I think that if they really wanted teens to stop, they would go to such extremes. As it stands, they do not, and banning 'freak dancing' is merely intended to show that the school does not endorse this sort of behavior.

"...i say that it is in poor taste to charge some students $80 to dance in a gymnasium and tell them how to have fun. Every student paid their money, i feel they should dance the way they want to for that price and poor location."

This is probably your weakest argument; if people are allowed to do whatever they want for simply paying money for entrance, why are people removed from stadiums for rushing the field? To make it similar, why don't we rush up and hump the pitcher's leg at a baseball game? Hey, we paid to come to watch and enjoy the game; who is the security to tell us how we can do that? Though extreme, it is, in essence, the same thing. When you gain entrance to a place for which you have paid, you also are bound to an implied contract-or in this case, a thoroughly outlined contract that everyone admitted to Winter Formal was required to sign-and just because you disagree with the rules does not give you the right to break them. If I think it's ok to steal babies from their cribs and sell them on E-Bay, when I get brought in to court for kidnapping, I really don't think the judge is going to care that I thought it was all right.

So, in short, I'm sorry Mr. Frias made an example of you, but I agree with Adam in that the others around you should have also been punished rather than you not being punished at all. My two cents to the pot: I'm glad 'freak dancing' was banned, and I thoroughly enjoyed dancing tastefully with a large sum of my friends. I hope more dances are like that in the future, and I think the people in charge agree. Basically what I'm trying to say is that you're wasting a stamp.

Re: The contrary perspective

[gavino3885]

Thank you so much for your opinion Seth. I respect your opinion enough to let it be at that. This is not to be a concession but i know that you are strict in your opinions and it is an exercise in futility. For the life of me i do not know why you chose to single my comment out and disect it as you did when it is Fish's lj but i thank you for the special attention you gave me. It made me feel loved enough. I never knew you cared so much. And this is said with the most sincereity. I still feel that the school was over-reacting but then again at the end of the day i dont have too much stake in it...i graduated. I was just sharing.
Much Love
Gavin