[John-B]

Stacey pretty much covered it, but another way to ask the question is, why do middle class white guys dance so badly, so often? And the answer to that is, in part, that white guys are often raised with the expectation that they won’t be ‘girly’, and being ‘girly’ includes moving your hips plus just about any movement that isn’t hard and linear. Since dancing is athletic, and practically any athletic activity demands moving your center, if you can’t move your hips — and if you’re conditioned to make most of your movements as straight jabs out from the body — you’re always off balance, your feet don’t pick up when they need to, and your arms fly around, or in shor t you dance like a goon. I was lucky enough to have my mother force me into ballroom dance classes when I was about 13; after most classes my thighs and butt would ache because those muscles werent’ used to moving. But it actually drastically improved me in all my sports (tennis and wrestling, mostly), and it was nice to be able to ask a girl ‘Do you want to dance?’ without thinking to myself ‘…. while I jerk around like a spaz in front of you!’

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Name : John-B, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 42, City : rural, State : CO, Country : United States, Occupation : professor, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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