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Oh, come on ladies. God wouldn’t have given you maracas if he didn’t want you to shake ’em!
— Penny · Dirty Dancing
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker urges a group of women to loosen up and move, using a bawdy joke that their bodies were made to be shaken. The suggestive humour is dressed as divine approval, coaxing the listeners to stop holding back and show off.
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