I went to the gym after work today and turned on the Fashion Network while I ran. There was a new show on about a reality weight loss competition called Dance Your Ass Off. Overweight girls get paired with hot guys and learn a pole dance routine. Then they perform it in stripper outfits and get judged. The girl who loses the most weight wins.
Kind of weird, right? But it's not Korean, it's AMERICAN. I plugged in my headphones to the TV for a second to make sure. A quick google search shows it's on the Oxygen Network.
First of all, this show proves that dancing is not at all the most effective way to lose pounds. If the winner had been against the competition on the Biggest Loser, she would have been sent home immediately.
Moreover, it just struck me as kind of wrong. Not that fat girls shouldn't be allowed to pole dance, but there's something kind of weird about putting on a show of only big girls that makes it seem like a spectacle. Or maybe that's actually my bias, and if I was a less judgmental person then it wouldn't be any different than a bunch of skinny girls on the pole. But then again, the girls aren't being admired, they're being asked to change. The more they have changed, the more likely they are to win. So it's kind of like the show is saying, learn how to be hot and thus lose weight.
Plus one girl made out with her dance partner on stage, and that was just tacky.
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