Jammin'

I just got home from "Jammin in Your Jammies," a fundraiser for Children's Hospital where families pay to basically go to a giant pajama party complete with karaoke and dance contests. Me and a friend from work were supposed to be helping with snacks by the pool (the event happens at a big hotel in K-town), but there were too many volunteers so we volunteered to, uh, watch the dance contest. There were winners in age divisions and then there was the big family dance off. Families had to hold hands and dance as a group and were judged to get a prize. One of the event sponsor's was a local radio station that plays top 40. The morning dejay emceed the contest and provided the music. The song for the family competition was a song that I loathe and actually had a conversation about earlier this week. It's a girl singing and it goes like this: "I kissed a girl and I liked it; I kissed a girl just to try it." It's a catchy song, very upbeat and very easy to sing along with. But it really bothered me to watch moms, dads, and little kids dance to this song. Everyone was having a great time and the dejay was rocking out and singing along. It wasn't that long ago that a dad would have asked for another song to be played so his little girls didn't have to hear that, or a mom would have told her kids they'd have to sit this one out because that wouldn't be their winning song. But no one seemed to notice or care. What happened to us?