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From: paveleck@ihldt.UUCP (Bob Paveleck)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 09:17:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 09:17:57 1984
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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
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