Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!lute From: lute@abnjh.UUCP (J. Collymore) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Hands across the border Message-ID: <442@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 14:31:12 EST Article-I.D.: abnjh.442 Posted: Mon Feb 6 14:31:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 07:37:24 EST References: <6732@watmath.UUCP> Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 27 I noticed something unusual about the "disco" scene in Western Canada when I was visiting some friends in Calgary last year. Here on the East coast of the U.S. it is very common to see women dancing with their girlfriends when a good song comes on and there are no guys asking them to dance. However, when I was in Calgary, (the same bar, once on a weekday night, and once on a weekend night), I noticed that this NEVER happened. The bar's clientle was early to mid-20's. I asked the three women and two men in our party why this was, and they said (and I paraphrase): "If two women were dancing with each other, they'd have to be gay." When I told them that two women dancing together here in the NY/NJ area is common, and not a sign of female homosexuality, they just gave me a disbelieving, puzzled look. Now would someone tell me if all of western Canada has these attitudes, or just Calgary. Or does the western U.S. (e.g. Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, etc.) also have a similar attitude about women dancing together. By the way, I'm reffering to fast dances, not slow ones. When I was in Toronto, back in 1980 I think I recall women dancing together. Is there a geographic difference? Jim Collymore