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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dancing Misc.
Message-ID: <720@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 12:28:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: rayssd.720
Posted: Tue Apr 30 12:28:25 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 07:34:52 EDT
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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>    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

Excuse me, but these women *are* dancing.  They're just not dancing
with men.  Is this what upsets you?  When I go out to dance, I go
out to dance, not to meet men.  Most of my women-friends are signifi-
cantly better dancers than most men of my (even distant) acquaintance.
(This is probably because when we were growing up we *worked* on
learning all the dances.  It was the thing to do.)  I prefer dancing
with a good dancer; we have more fun, and they probably won't spend
the dance trying to hang on to me somewhere.

If a man asks me to dance and I feel like it, I'll say yes.  If I
don't feel like dancing to that particular number, I'll say no.
However, if I'm dancing with another woman and a man tries to cut in,
assuming that I'm just dancing with a woman because there wasn't a
man around, I'll tell him to get lost (politely).  I rarely, if ever,
ask a strange man in a club to dance if I'm already with perfectly
acceptable dance partners.  And, yes (to answer a previously-posted
question), I get mad if *no one* I came with wants to dance, and then
I'll ask someone else.  But it certainly has nothing whatsoever to
do with gender!

A dancer without a man is like a...... (we know the rest)
Check your calendar again.
-- 
--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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