> it's funny how all of us are disgusted by this on a deep level but none of us can really articulate why > i think it's because all the women are clearly of childbirthing age and yet none have a family. they all just jumping around like children, behaving like they are all single digit age > it's the same sort of feeling i would get imagining a mid-30s man playing with funko pops. except worse of course because male society would mock and reject that behaviour. instead here it's celebrated and a mass event i disagree, i think it is because their dancing is coordinated and organized. these are all college aged women, most of them probably aren't even 21 years old. and yeah, age of child-bearing has gone up, but even in the 90s it was normal for women not to have their 1st kid til they were close to 30. i was born in 92 and my mom was 37 at the time, it was unusual but not unheard of.  anyway, you can go back and look at media in the 80s and 90s. there's tons of spring break footage of college aged girls dancing to the hit songs of the day from mtv or vh1. and none of that is unsettling like this. this is unsettling because it is performative. they aren't just girls dancing to a song cause they think it's fun and they're letting loose and having a good time.  no, these are girls who have pre-planned and coordinated an organized dance routine. they have assigned someone to film their dance routine. in reality, they probably did multiple takes before posting the best one online. that's why it's unsettling. nothing wrong with hot college chicks dancing, but the fact that instead of just dancing and having fun, they have to organize it, they have to plan it out...it's like they don't know how to relax and have fun on their own, but they know how to make a video that conveys the concept that they are having fun, so they do that instead.
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