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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Women Dancing
Message-ID: <403@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 17:44:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 15 17:44:53 1984
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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I've lived in two major geographic areas of the U.S. and in both
places it's been very common for women to dance with women.  When
I was younger, the main reason was that we "couldn't get the boys
to dance."  Now I see (usually in bars) that women are much less
self-conscious about being the first ones up on the dance floor,
so they'll dance together until the floor is sufficiently crowded
for men to dance relatively unnoticed (a new topic of discussion:
"why do most men mind being noticed on the dance floor?").  I dance
just to dance.  I'll dance with whoever is available; it has no
significance unless it is a slow dance.  In fact, there are some
dances that I *will not* dance with men because I like to go a little
wild (mainly 50's type rock and roll) and I find that men like to
hang on a little too much.  And, for sentimental reasons, there are
some dances that I will share only with my best friend.  If there's
no one around, I will dance by myself, although I'm still a little
shy about it.  Usually, we just dance in groups.  I must say, though,
that some New England stereotypes seem to apply here - most of the
dancing that I see here is very restrained.  Oh well, the only thing
that matters is that the dancer, not the observer, enjoys it.

Heather (who has always wondered how some people can dance in a
perfect rhythm that, unfortunately, has nothing to do with the
beat of the song) Emanuel
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