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From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dancing Misc.
Message-ID: <1090@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 07:26:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 07:26:14 1985
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In article <4968@ucla-cs.ARPA>, rick@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
> 
> Just a few observations on dancing at clubs:
>    1) I've noticed that women will get up and dance alone rather
>       than go ask a guy to dance.

>    4) If women are so keen to dance (otherwise why would they be
>       dancing alone, or with each other) why don't they ask a guy
>       to dance? Last time I checked the calendar it was the mid-80's,
>       not the 50's.
> Rick Gillespie	  ...!{cepu|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|ucbvax}!ucla-cs!rick

My conclusion is that most women in this country ARE behind the times in
this respect.  I lived in Denmark during 1979 and 1980, and every time
I went out to a club there, women I had never met asked me to dance.  It
wasn't a pick-up.  Just being friendly and open (and forward).  But then
women there tend to have much stronger personalities than most American
women, and their society supports that in many ways.  How will American
women ever be "equal" if they can't take the initiative in social matters?
I realize I am over-generalizing, but it is much rarer for a woman to call
a man for a first date than vice versa, and the same issue is there in so
many other aspects of personal realtionships that I think this is an
important issue...



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