In Defense Of Spring Break Mom
This video has been shooting around the internet like a Wanted bullet (you've got to curve the video), and it's not like I don't understand why. The rare but beautiful moments when someone drops their guard and lives their life in front of a camera are what the internet is all about. Because those are the people we make fun of. Look at this "ridiculous" woman! She is slightly older than the average YouTube commenter! She doesn't seem to be ashamed of her body or her dancing like I am! In the middle of her vacation, she entered a dancing competition that normally you would expect only 22-year-old oversexed alcoholics-in-training to participate in! "Fuck this lady!" What does she think, she can just live her life and try to enjoy the little time she has on this Earth and there won't be humiliating, misguided, and cruel repercussions?
We can do better, internet.
I'm not saying that I wouldn't be right there in the front row at the Senor Frogs Dance Battle 2009 using my overpriced plastic cup of mango daiquiri to hide my face, which would be frozen in a rictus of disbelieving laughter at this woman's seeming complete lack of self-awareness on the Hawaiian Tropic Bikini Breakdown 2009 dancestage, but the laughter would actually be at my own discomfort created by a culture that emphasizes mocking people who actually know how to live their lives without the constant societal pressure of worrying that a bunch of genuine morons might think you look silly. The day we hand over the judgment calls on what's what to the hive mind of a Spring Break Bikini Bash 2009 is the day Skynet takes over. And you know how that turns out. (Via BuzzFeed.)
Posted by Gabe at 10:00 AM in Caught On Tape, Viral Video
Tags: Dance-Offs | Moms | Spring Break
Gabe- I think you have it all wrong. I see this as a sad sad (but funny in a lulz sort of way) story of a women in the grips of alchoholism ( I know actually funny), who was goaded into entering the hot body contest by a bunch of mean spirited drunk spring breakers when she drunkenly wondered into Senor Frogs during hour 22 of her 42 hour long drinking binge. I don't know maybe I am wrong, but I have a feeling this video will be used in an intervention in the near future (funny) not as a relic of that "time I really lived life in Mexico" (not funny).
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I don't care if it's sad sad, sad funny, or funny funny....I just wanna know why that lady has two belly buttons.
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Has nobody but we noticed that this woman has two belly buttons?
Is it a badly placed piercing? It is a tick?
I need to know.
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I wonder if she let dudes take Tequila shots out of both of them.
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I'm no surgeon but I'm pretty sure it's a jacked up C-section scar. One from back in the day before they started doing them sideways so that new mom's could evolve into MILFs and still rock a two-piece. On second thought....
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From the YouTube description (i.e.: official truth book):
"She later Flashed the crowd and french kissed one of the other girls in the contest. And was disqualified!"
Oops! Girls Gone Wild.
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i think this goes into 'women gone wild,' actually.
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I totally agree with you, Gabe. She's kind of a pretty good dancer (yeah, I checked again, I'm sticking with it), she looks like she's having fun... maybe people are mocking her, but I don't see why we have to be those people. Maybe she's even an alcoholic and needs help, I don't know, but it seems like shame is a really stupid way to get that message across, and even if it's an effective way, I'm sure there's plenty of it and I don't need to make myself a worse human being by joining in the shaming of her. If we're gonna shame her or mock her, we have to mock everyone who joins in those contests or who gets drunk on vacation and lets loose, and I'm not prepared to mock THAT MANY people yet. Maybe one day, but for now, I'm drawing the line here.
I'll join you in the defense of her, is what I'm saying.
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stop being serious! stop talking about racism! booo!
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Perhaps we should agree that this lady is not unlike her 22-year-old counterparts in the amount of alcohol she consumed. And I have a sinking suspicion that as my generation continues to age, this type of video will go from "54-year-old dances LOLZ!" to "54-year-old hottie on spring break..." with no ridicule.
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This is the first thing I will have ever "dugg."
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I'm with Gabe. Let Andy Dick have a little fun, already.
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This could be a clip from Tim and Eric Awesome Show
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If her son was in the crowd that IS a boy who loves his mom.
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Wait, is that the Bop It song? Like the party game? If so, that part is more amazing to me than my mom dancing in her bathing suit again.
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YES! Thank you Gabe. As someone who will watch just about anything (turtle + shoe = ugh), this is one video I did not click on, because really? people are just laughing at her because she is old. You know what, HATERZ? I bet she also loves like she's never been hurt.
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I think the point is that she is drunk and has no self respect, but that doesn't really make her stand out in this crowd. She's not self aware, but the people filming and mocking her are even less so.
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Well, gee, I didn’t think the woman I’d be checking out at spring break would be Mom. (It’s just Mom and whores.)
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I think we can all agree that this woman is >>>> than anyone else in that crowd. So shut up, Gabe wins.
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Gabe,
I love you.
That is all.
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I'm gonna weigh in here as the Resident Person Who Experiences Lots of Weird People Drunk, While Simultaneously Being Drunk Herself, Because I Live In Long Beach which is fucking brilliant genius freakfest HQ.
Clearing throat. In my experience with these cases, the exhibitor (Mom) is fully aware, no matter how altered and on what (nobody's thrown in the possible ecstasy drop, which DUH everyone, Spring Break WOOO!!), they 95% of the time Get It and also think it's entertaining and/or don't give a shit because the point was to raise the freak flag, see it fly. So the hiding behind the Senor Frog Mango Daquiri (LOL!) is unnecessary because she wants to WOO you. Although excellent use of 'rictus.' 1,000 points.
Or B. in the other 5%, she's batshit crazy off her rocker and after getting cut for Katy Perrying the sitch was all "spring break is fucking lame and overrated. i'm out."
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im not ashamed that i had to look up the word "rictus."
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