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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border
Message-ID: <6822@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 17:47:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 17:47:30 1984
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I find it sad that women would only dance together because there are no men
around or the men around don't interest them.  I have two women friends here
in waterloo with whom I dance at times simply because I like to dance with
them and they seem to like to dance with me.  Both of them are foreign students,
one polish, and one brazilian and they both find it very normal that we dance
together (so do I).  We once had one man (Egyptian) harass us trying to 
physically stop us from dancing together, but as we continued and insisted we
wanted to, he finally gave up.  We were never harassed since.

I have noticed that non-american women don't seem as worried about homosexuality
as american ones are.  In france, where my mother comes from, women often dance
together and nobody objects or finds it weird.

I had a funny experience one day.  I was in a sort of discotheque with 3 men
and 3 women.  The seven of us were dancing together and one man who was 
quite drunk noticed that there we were an odd number, so he came over and
started harassing the women in our group, touching us and making very explicit
sexual gestures.  One of the women was a young swedish women Greta, we had just
made friends with, who was very nice looking, and who didn't know english very
well.  he started bothering her and she didn't know what to do.  At that point
the men in our group started looking very upset and it looked as though things
were going to turn sour, so I grabbed Greta by the shoulders, started dancing
with her and kissed her on the cheeks.  She understood and kissed me back.  The
man got very disgusted and walked away. 
I told that story to a few of my Canadian girlfriends and one of them told me
"well, I hope you'd NEVER do that to me, I'd KICK you!!!"

			Sophie Quigley
			watmath!saquigley