4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup you beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Monday. Welcome back to the Philip |
0:04.2 | DeFranco Show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about today is |
0:07.9 | Good Morning America, GMA. So in a shift for GMA, rather than having a controversial celebrity |
0:12.8 | who is in some sort of scandal come on the show, it appears they decided to cut out the middleman |
0:16.9 | all together and just have the controversy in-house. And so what we saw over the weekend was just a wave of anger and backlash towards GMA co-ancher, Lara Spencer. |
0:24.8 | And as far as why, there was this backlash, if you didn't see, last week she made a comment during a segment that mentioned six-year-old Prince George's upcoming class curriculum. |
0:31.6 | In addition to the usual first or second grade things like math, science, and history, the future King of England will be putting down the Plato to take on religious studies computer |
0:41.9 | programming poetry and ballet among other things you couldn't contain how he looks so |
0:51.6 | happy about the ballet class Prince William says George absolutely loves ballet. |
0:57.0 | I have news for you, Prince William. We'll see how long that lasts. |
1:00.0 | I mean, he might end up, but between the religious studies and the computer programming. |
1:09.0 | I just want to go back to the Play-Doh. |
1:11.6 | And following that, viewers quickly slammed the comment as insensitive they took to social media using the hashtag Boys Dance 2. |
1:16.6 | Also notably, he had public reactions from people like Derek Huff, of course, professional dancer, posing this photo to Instagram and saying, |
1:22.6 | My initial response was disappointment. For a brief moment, it brought up old unpleasant memories of being mocked and laughed after being a boy who dance. |
1:28.2 | But also noting, I understand that comments like the one made here on television were probably lighthearted and just a little banter. |
1:33.5 | But also adding the tone and mockery towards dance is just dated, old, and not relevant anymore. |
1:37.4 | And adding, so if there are any young kids out there who have a passion to pursue dance, don't be discouraged by those who might laugh or make fun, tease, or talk. And I'm featuring Derek's comment here not just because he's a very, very popular dancer, |
1:47.1 | but also because outside of people that were going for Spencer's throat because of these remarks, |
1:50.5 | you got a lot of people saying, you know, we don't think there was ill intent here, |
1:53.1 | but in general we should use this opportunity to kind of change the culture. |
1:55.8 | Some saying more ballet, less bullying, also let people pursue whatever interest they want to pursue. And also, part of the reason that we're talking about this today is that on air this morning, |
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