Sydney Spies, Durango, Colorado; her proposed yearbook shot
The above linked ABC NEWS article via Yahoo news has currently, 28,220 comments. Essentially, Sydney wants to use THIS shot as her high school senior yearbook feature and the school is not having any part of it.
Sydney's mom who was also the Durango high school slut queen of her generation has declared solidarity with her daughter. They plan to fight the yearbook committee's decision, even going as far as "to meet with a civil lawyer in Denver to review their daughter’s case.
I knew nothing of this great tabloid sensation until yesterday when I ran across the link at Joan H.'s facebook page. At last count the thread there had 63 comments, which facebookers will recognize as a lot... Joan H. (whom I adore, have no doubt of that) says in her 'status update' "I don't think this is a "racy" Senior picture, I just think it is a freakin' ridiculous Senior picture."
And then the comments started.
This one is fairly typical...
" She looks like she didn't have time to stop and change on the way home from her stripper job."
Playing the devil's advocate as I am apt to do, I commented " My question is who defines racy? We're still a Quaker dominated society? Cracks me up that anyone can pass judgement from on high over what the girl wears."
Now, do I think, really, that the picture is appropriate for a high school yearbook? Uh, no I do not.
Several said, "pretend it's your daughter."
Believe me, I already did!
Would MY daughter (don't have a daughter by the way, but...) ever be seen in the high school yearbook in the stripper get-up? No, no she wouldn't. Matter of fact, she wouldn't be allowed to leave the house at all 'til she was 21.
My question for the readers here is, I suppose... why is it these kind of tabloid-ish stories draw so much attention and controversy?
I linked the below vid in Joan's comment thread...
What do you think?
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And before you call bullshit, it always gets more extreme. It may rebound eventually, but it always gets more extreme first.
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Then I realized that she was so HAWT and sexy she obviously must be a lesbian...
So in other words, get your horn doggie eyes off her, dude! Anyone that attractive DEFINITELY plays for OUR team. (and no, she DOES NOT switch hit!)
All that is not really my issue though. Question is, why all the attention to this kind of crap when we have REAL issues to deal with in this country... this world?
I'll add Australia to Rwoo5g's list.
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I also think if she were standing straight looking back over her shoulder she might have gotten away with the outfit. However, posing with her butt poked out like that sends a loaded message. It's interesting, too, that she's posed on the stairs. Getting that message has nothing to do with anyone's repressed sexuality; it's obvious when we see it elsewhere in the culture--in advertising, music videos, television--and it's obvious here.
Why do things like this draw attention? I think it's a clash of values, as desert_rat said. I, too, agree with Joan about where it all starts. The cult of celebrity has spilled down to toddlers. Everyone wants to be famous, everyone wants to be looked at, everyone wants to point at other people and say OMG. Frickin' TV.
What is the f-ing issue?
Advise me, here, man, cuz I truly don’t know..
What is it? the way her back is sort of…arched?
Hey when the f. did we become a “quaker dominated society?”
I am so damn out of it, I gotta take a day to recover.
She looks great. Lovely. A lovely woman.
What is the f-ing issue?
Advise me, here, man, cuz I truly don’t know..
What is it? the way her back is sort of…arched?
Hey when the f. did we become a “quaker dominated society?”
I am so damn out of it, I gotta take a day to recover.
Alysa gives an interesting take on this:
“my initial reaction was to laugh and blurt out, "Dumb slut!" I know that's offensive language, but there you go, that was my honest reaction”
Mine, not.
So she gets a modelling gig and a rich lizardly boyfriend & lots of hedonistic fun.
God bless her. She has used the System.
Re. the system?
I only WISH it was Quaker……………….
shit, sorry. delete AND edit me.
Everyone has got sluttiness in them, not showing it just makes you a liar to boot. All Wall Street traders should be forced to dress as strippers in an honest world. We live in a country that sends girls her age to be slaughtered in foreign lands for corporate profits. Killing and maiming our kids is OK if we perceive it benefits our selfish interests but by God don't let one of those little brats do what she wants!
Don't tell me there's outrage because we supposedly care so much about our kids in this country, nothing could be further from the truth.
“Killing and maiming our kids is OK if we perceive it benefits our selfish interests but by God don't let one of those little brats do what she wants!”
But harry gotta learn finesse, somehow? No, yes, yes, no..i am ambivalent re. harry…..
Ha! Stutter! Yeah, slut blonde goddesses bring that shit out in me, man.
Arg.
Damn sluts. Wish they were not so..ah..tender…………….
We should have uniforms for school.
Barring that, the yearbook dress code should be the same as the school dress code. Which should be the same as a Supreme Court courtroom dresscode.
The chick is a VERY attractive young woman. She wants to reflect that in a picture that is apparently important to HER. That is her CHOICE!
Does it promote feminizism or advance the woman's movement? Of course not, but she not trying do do that. It's also not hurting any of you wannabe Puritan's either!
BTW, calling some chick a douchebag or a slut because you THINK she is based upon a pretty benign picture is rediculous!
Bottom line is she should get to do what she wants as long as its not hurting anyone and the government, the freakin yearbook committee AND y'all should get off her back, stay out of people's private lives & bedrooms and, as Dick Weasel pointed out, worry about more important crap!
P.S. To the Douche that thinks women need to dress like the Supreme Court: Burka much, dude??? :rolleyes:
Dressing like that is disrespectful in certain environments and distracting. There is a time and place for everything. Democracy means freedom. But freedom doesn't mean the freedom to do whatever you want, whenever you want. Even if you don't hurt others.
Should kids be allowed to masturbate in math class, provided they don't hurt anybody else? NO
Its distracting
I say, uniforms in public school. That solves the story.
I'm sympathetic toward Sydney. She's only doing what society has encouraged our daughters to do, and I actually don't know anyone who looks back at high school yearbooks and thinks, "Wow, I made a really good choice that day, didn't I!"
However, I have very little sympathy for her parents, who apparently don't have any *real* civil-rights issues in their lives.
lingerie is up to the woman, for underneath robe.
this girl, in this event,
will make hay while the sun shines,
then she will find her beauty fading, blah blah.
:D
But since you placed the pic on your post, I'll comment, can we see the mom's high school photo??? :D
And no, I wouldn't allow my daughter to leave the house till she was 30!! EEK!!!
But that's my oldness coming through before my time!! And luckly, no daughters!! Though I did want to lock my nieces up till they were 30, but too late, my oldest is fixing to make me a great-uncle now for the 3rd time(baby is a coming soon!!!)
They should have photo standards in place for sr. pics (i.e., head & shoulders only, x amount of space) so they don't have these issues. It's not her yearbook, it is the school's yearbook and they are allowing her to be in it. She can choose not to be if she so prefers. She can publish her own book if she likes. That's where her free speech comes in. It doesn't mean you can do/say anything any damn time you want.
And damn right, she doesn't have aright to look attractive in her yearbook! If she can't be a pimply faced jock or geek she should be BANNED!
While we're at it, We also need to ban all the queer kids cuz they look so GAY, and the minority kids cuz they look so COLORED and what about all those poor kids that look so UNDERPRIVILEGED too!
Damn straight, sister! Only wannabe burka wearers and nerdy Xians belong in the figgin yearbook!
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I see that the yearbook editors are perfectly fine with her submitting the photo if she wants one of those paid "congrats graduate" ads that a lot of the yearbooks now have. We didn't have that option in the 1970's. It's a good option, and isn't that expensive.
To me, it would be like the kid and her mom getting outraged because they can't provide their own driver's license or passport photos.
Reminds me of the Anthony trial. Tabloid always trumps
So much discussion here. Burqas, male sluts, and tr ig thunder. Huh.
My point... why all the attention when there are actual newsworthy items we should be paying attention to?
Carry on! Thanks for all the comments.. This, at least, fun...
Why do people look at this infotainment, and not know the latest on our habeas corpus rights? Good question, one which Neil Postman covered in Amusing Ourselves to Death. I wish he were still alive to update that book...it was prescient. But notice, Trig--you "bit," and publicized the story, and we are commenting. I'm guessing that for a lot of us, it's needed escape from poisonous headlines and unrelenting bad news. It's why I'll be watching The Hobbit as soon as Netflix has it available for streaming, and why I enjoyed Lost in Austen, and why I'm reading Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South after having seen the miniseries. Sometimes we just need an escape, either through comic relief, or through hooting with laughter at human folly, or through taking a vacation to Middle Earth.
Alysa's comment may be spot-on though. What a great publicity stunt! If she intends to sing, dance, or be the next Paris Hilton, she's managed to corral a load of free publicity and, if she uses her 15 minutes of fame advantageously, may end up quite rich. Only in America!
phyllis45 is correct and the editorial committee offered a place somewhere else, than OK for another place.
Odd body poses are a part of high school goofball culture, like making funny faces, kick me signs or putting on Halloween costumes. I don't think any of those would be appropriate for the portrait section. It's like upstaging someone in theater or monopolizing conversation; it's a form of public rudeness.
But they might be OK in a section devoted to high school students acting out. Personally, I think hers is a tragic pose that people are going to find depressing. It could have been a funny pose satirizing society's silly puritanical ideas of sex if she had played it with a self aware facial expression. But she looks like she trying to be serious about all of this, communicating the bogus artificial "sexuality", that is part of the commercialization of sex one finds everywhere in corporate advertising.
This pose is about selling a product in a sick patriarchal society. She's not really selling sex. She's selling her willingness to shill products by posing her body. In its own weird way, it is a form of resume. The product could be anything from a porn film to a car depending on how she evaluates the "offers" that are sure to come her way.
It does tend to be a short career path though, like professional football for example. I hope she plans to continue her education and prepares for the day when her poses no longer attract marketing departments.
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busy watching shameless on show time w my gf... and now i'm typing like jane gtg thanks everyone
I was a sorority house mother for two years. I had my head shot in the line up with them. What a production to get everyone in a photo and in the end they all looked like barbies anyway.
Long Live Unique Sexy People. We need more of this...not less! America is full of prudes and Im so tired of it.
Must we always agonize over politics and unemployment and universal healthcare? I think Sydney is giving us all a welcome respite from the relentless gloom and doom in the news these days. What's more interesting to me is how judgmental everyone is, immediately labeling her a slut, a douche bag, and the "type of girl who will blow out three or four kids in succession, by three or four "fathers"..."
I wonder why no one thought to ask what her GPA is or what she wants to do when she graduates. But I will say, I don't care for the yellow skirt or the background. If that were my senior picture (if only), I'd have worn black leather pants and posed on the climbing ropes in the gym. With the hot football coach who my slutty best friend propositioned at the end of the semester (he doubled as a history teacher and gave her a B; she left a note in his mailbox that read "for a roll in the hay, would you give me an A"). She got the A but wouldn't spill the beans, that tramp.
What IS Sydney's GPA? What are her aspirations?
Very good questions that nobody bothered to think, let alone ask (except mad dog and snip dog)... myself included. I'm sure she's a very smart and nice little slut... I MEAN GIRL!! *slaps self*
Yes too, I GET that the "real news" is depressing and we need distractions. I'd say now, after a bit of thought, that I 'm ok with that, as long as we remain aware at least, that the totalitarian boot is poised over our collective necks.
Five dollar cash reward to anyone that finds me a picture of Sydney's mom.
(Is that Amy in the picture with you? I hope she's not your co-star - unless it's a snuff film!)
Assuming it's ME that get's snuffed in your fantasy film mad dog..
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120109/NEWS01/701099941/Yearbook-photo-flap-on-Today-Show
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20111121/COLUMNISTS04/711219956/-1/s
As we say here in Montana, she looks like she's been rode hard and put away wet (for you non-Western folks, that is NOT a sexual reference!).
Do I get to split the $5 with High Lonesome?
Also should note, High Lonesome's was a vid clip when I CLEARLY asked for a PICTURE. The Lincoln is right here on the table waiting to be snatched..
Normally I do not like "putting too much effort into it"...but the picture seems okay to me...although the first time I looked at it, I thought it was a black strip photo-shopped over a naked top. (It isn't!)
If she likes it...the book should allow it. Her mother likes it...and wants it in there.
P.S. Tr ig Thunder is an apt name. After all, thunder is nothing more than a loud noise that only impresses chickens and scares sheep!
Obomba, the great half white hope is big brother.
Blue thanks for the input
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20111121/COLUMNISTS04/711219956/-1/s
Cut and paste
that being, Sydney's image above makes us both horny.
Do you think tr ig lightning would be more appropriate?
No problem, look how much fun we've had with the issue
Who woulda thunk..???
And yes, Tr ig Lightening is better because it works on a couple of levels. On the scientific level lightening is just a bunch of static and on the sexual level "fast as lightening" sure fits!
But hey I'm just an old crank - get off my lawn!!
:-) / r
We're all old and senile now (at least in our kids' eyes) but some parents would be able to get the kid to use their brain a bit better on this by suggesting "what if you looked at my senior yearbook and I was dressed like that for my portrait?" That might tend to do it.
Mission- 3200 views? The yahoo link had nearly forty thousand comments last I looked! As is appropriate... I freaking suppose
Tink.. whore's get paid? Last whore I ran upon asked for taxi fare and a tip... I gave her a dollar- said "here's a tip.. the bus stop is just down there a mile or so on Broadway."
Erica... ha. Christine Aguillera and Britney got nothing on me and the Kardashians
Don't have a clue as to Yahoo...
Just saying...
Walter, thanks. No kidding, back in the day. In retrospect, I wish I'd have been camera shy, but no matter. I don't get the whole "I'll contact an attorney" attempt at a hammer over the little yearbook committee's editorial authority.
Anyways, I'll just assume Mad Dog Margaret is upset because she believes you were in the Navy and didn't have sex with her. You obviously would be the (only) ONE that got away!
P.S. Why did your GF feel the need to wear a mask in your Av picture??? (not that I blame her... Just curious!)
ccdarling: thx and read thru comments when you get time :)
American has so many uptight personalities and this is particularly disturbing to some of us who understand the fine line between good taste and indecent exposure, particularly with minor children who are scantily clad are exploited by adults.
She's not a freaking criminal. She has, however, violated the school's dress code and this includes her photographs appearing in the school's yearbook.
Do tell, if you please, why all the attention to "what this attention whore is wearing?"
Ratings bring in viewers' attention to issues on sexuality and our freedoms to express ourselves. The FCC band camp is run much like the doofi at the UN. ;)
Meh. If this girl feels comfortable in her own skin, good on her. Confidence is sexy! Just ask Pamela Anderson.