[BBoyNelo84]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...-Kill-You.html

This is absolute BS.

[demonhand]

All her articles are pretty much like this. The only beef I've got with this is that her article is under the subsection called "News".

[Syrenz]

lmao. I bet that she's a fat lady who has no chance of ever breaking so she's trying to ease her jealousy. Injuries? Sure, people get them as they trip on the sidewalk, lets ban walking now.

[BboyDeus]

Wow that lady is just...wow.
Wow.
Talk about straight up hating. Why does she care if other people get hurt anyway. I mean it's not her business to be telling people what they should do. It's a dance for God's sake. Let us dance in peace.

[Zulu Chibi]

Stupidest article I've ever seen.

[sheruken]

omgzor shes right guys , i scraped my ankle while doing a six step )=

[Bboy-Supreme]

she should be fired aha

[bboychamploo]

let's play count all of the stereotypes!

[Bboy-Pivit]

"A Grave Public Health Threat"

Since when? Obviously there's a possibility you'll get hurt, but how is this along the same lines as:

"Poisened nuts, Exploding rollercoasters"

Bullshit.

[BbOyJeOpArDy]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/about...firm=y#contact

if you have the opportunity, contact em and let them know your opinion about the article.

BUT, remember:
1) do not swear/cuss - we want to maintain the reputation of the bboy community, not give such reporters more ammo to use against us.
2) do not insult her - don't call her a "fat bitch" or whatever it is that people were saying in this thread - once again, we want to maintain our reputations as bboys
3) point out inaccuracies and fallacies in her arguments.

- ie, how she stereotypes:
"A painful fate of maiming and despair awaits those vulgar youths who stand around outside on scraps of cardboard, painfully gyrating while shrouded in enormous pants and shirts"
- the enormous pants and shirts thing is a stereotype
- the "scraps of cardboard" claim is also just a stereotype. people actually either danced indoors or on bare concrete. the "cardboard dancing" image was perpetuated by the media in its stereotyping of breaking in its peak of popularity in the mid 1980s.

also, point out where she completely insults bboys as though we're low criminals or something:
"and spinning, pointlessly"
- adding "pointlessly" is completely irrelevant to her statement: it just shows her perpetuation of disrespect against the bboy community
- "Why? Because most break-dancers are already too brain damaged to even know what protective gear is, let alone use it." insulting our mental health as well....
since when was any of this okay?




send a message thru the contact segment and state your opinion. something should come from this.

[BbOyJeOpArDy]

* the message i sent came back to my email. apparently it didnt go thru

[VicValSwift]

lol. People like this make me laugh. Seriously. They try to present supposedly "logical" arguments while in reality being completely illogical and over the top about it. Maybe I will reply to it but I don't know if I want to waste my time on this ignorant asshole.

And I find it ironic that she's trying to express what.. concern? By insulting us? BWAHAHA.

[azjerm]

WHAT the! i bet her son died trying to do double spin air flares not continuing but spinning in the air twice

[Bgirl-Kemyst]

The amount of annual deaths attributed to obesity in the US, is approximately 100,000 according to most statistics. I couldn't find a single article on deaths due to breakdancing.

... I heard driving is pretty dangerous too, especially when you're intoxicated. Just a rumour I heard somewhere.

[Transcendent]

Wow. Ignorance like that annoys the shit out of me, hence while you can now read my paragraph long response to her at the bottom of the page.