Comments on: Forget Natural Disasters, Get a Load of This Awesomeness

By: zero

zero — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:32:13 +0000

@blurb:

While I agree that the dress is inappropriate for a school function regardless of race, Alyson is making the point that some of the comments left are focusing on the fact that this girl is black and their perception that she is lower-class.

Such as this:
n Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

At least she wasn’t pregnant. At the time. Did anyone ax her bowt wat her date tawt?

Tell me that they would have posted that if this had been a middle/upper class white girl. Inappropriate and offensive. Dialect ought not to be automatically associated with level of intelligence or social mores.

By: Aimee Greeblemonkey

Aimee Greeblemonkey — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:25:12 +0000

You can’t help it when you mix up Spring Break and prom, yo. Simple mistake.

By: blurb

blurb — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:56:45 +0000

@Alyson, I don’t think it has a thing to do with race. The dress is inappropriate for a high school dance. Period. It doesn’t matter what color the skin is of the person in the dress, the dress is not appropriate.

What is amusing about this video is the attitude of the person; that she feels she has a right to wear something like this to a high school dance.

So. Pretend it was a white upper class well-spoken girl. Still inappropriate. And super crazy to expect that any high school would allow it.

Grumpy old man rant is over now.

By: Alyson

Alyson — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:56:37 +0000

So, perhaps that dress was not appropriate - although many have worn less to the Oscars - but I’m surprised at the attitude taken by the comments. I’m fairly sure that these are the same people who, should I make fun of the way they talk, would take great offense. Some of these people probably railed at Kathie Lee after the Heather interview, some of these people comment on the shallowness and bad attitudes of replies to other blog posts and yet they can’t display the same sensitivity here. Yes, the girl does not have a white, midwestern accent and diction. She’s black, y’all. She talks that way. We’re blurring the lines between hoochie mama and appropriate every day, so it’s no wonder that she has a skewed idea of what is appropriate.

And her father must be a pimp?

How would the comments have been different if she was a white girl not allowed into her prom for the same dress? An upperclass, well-spoken white girl?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:32:11 +0000

Ridiculous considering every high school has a prom dress code and every student knows what it is.

“But ma friends tried to wrap it around me!” I agree with an above poster. Bikini and a blanket.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:31:05 +0000

Much to my surprise when I clicked on the video to watch this I realized its in my HOMETOWN! Sugar Land, Texas representin’!

By: Spatula

Spatula — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:51:04 +0000

I think I love this girl. “I WAS wearin’ underwear!” - sure, honey, only you called it your dress.

Let’s not knock sense into her. She’s totally precious. The body of a girl, the soul of a drag queen.

By: KW

KW — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:37:58 +0000

We’re using the term “dress” pretty loosely here.

And yeah I’d hit it too. With a stick. In the hope that I’d knock some sense into her.

By: lolo

lolo — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:04:54 +0000

Seriously.

By: Greet

Greet — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:42:20 +0000

Never mind! For some reason it wouldn’t load when I followed the link from my feedreader but from here, it does.

That’s not a prom dress, that’s a bikini with a blanket attached to the bottom.