Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihldt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihldt!paveleck From: paveleck@ihldt.UUCP (Bob Paveleck) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border Message-ID: <2234@ihldt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 09:17:57 EST Article-I.D.: ihldt.2234 Posted: Tue Feb 7 09:17:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:25:22 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 18 I don't know about the western United States, but here in the midwest (Illinois, to be exact), women often dance together in night clubs if they aren't asked to dance by men (or are not interested in those men who did ask them). In the Chicago area, this is not taken as a homosexual activity; in fact, I've heard from some women that they dance together so that men will notice them (and, hopefully, the men will muster up the courage to dance with those women). Although this idea only makes marginal sense to me (I can see women wanting to be noticed, but I often see several women dancing together. Whenever I feel like asking one of them to dance, it seems like I'm trying to take on an entire street gang!), it is fairly common and does not elicit strange looks from other people. I wonder if the attitudes of women in Alberta about dancing together implies that they are more outspoken toward men (i. e., if they want to dance, do they generally ask men they find interesting, or do they wait to be asked?). Bob Paveleck ihldt!paveleck