Is Dance unmanly?

[The Artificially Prolonged]

You are constantly feeling up women, you have to have absurd upper body strength to toss women around like they do, and everyone can see whether you have a truly massive dong

This. -sigh- If only I was a good dancer.... I'm starting to believe that the stereotype that men who dance are pansies was made up by male dancers so us other lads would say sod this and go outside to play football blissfully unaware of the perks of dancing.

On topic

Go for it and damn what anyone else says. Anyway you could always 'serve' them with your moves to silence them.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Gene Kelly would've beat your ass for saying dancing's unmanly, and then he'd dance away like a boss.

In his own words

There's a strong link between sports and dancing, and my own dancing springs from my early days as an athlete...I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman. Dancing does attract effeminate young men. I don't object to that as long as they don't dance effeminately. I just say that if a man dances effeminately he dances badly ? just as if a woman comes out on stage and starts to sing bass. Unfortunately people confuse gracefulness with softness. John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players...but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies. One of our problems is that so much dancing is taught by women. You can spot many male dancers who have this tuition by their arm movements ? they are soft, limp and feminine.

So he'd also beat your ass for DANCING unmanly too, I guess. Dancing is exactly as manly as you make it.

Like a boss. Seriously, look at that guy by the standards of the day and he's probably fucking ripped.

Dancing like that means you are fit. In fact I recall that some of the best draftees for the Commandos in WWII were male ballet dancers.


captcha: swan song....if you insist.


And something tells me Old Blue Eyes could cut a fucking rug, anyone wanna challenge Sinatra's man credentials?

 

[Heronblade]

If you can call this unmanly... Then something is wrong with you!

Well, I was about to say that nothing about dance is unmanly, but you just proved me wrong on that point, congratulations.

 

[Auron225]

I think its something in which if we do it ourselves, we think others will think "How girly of you, you girl!" but its really rare someone will actually even think it. When I see a guy dancing who really knows how to dance, its more likely Id be thinking "Wow, I wish I could do that..."

So not the manliest thing you could be doing but I wouldnt call it unmanly.

 

[Ne1butme]

The only things that are unmanly are activities that men can't do. In general, men can't give birth or nurse a baby (transexual conversions aside).

Last time i checked, men could dance.

 

[hazabaza1]

Manly as all fuck.

 

[Erttheking]

Depends on the type of dancing really, I'm pretty sure ballet isn't considered manly

 

[Folji]

The first sign of doubting one's own manliness is questioning what's manly and what isn't.

True story.

 

[Paladin2905]

Unmanly, perhaps.

UnGENTLEmanly, hell no. Learning to dance was one of the best decisions I ever made. (By which I mean actual dancing, not that crap people pass off for it in clubs, seriously- go learn tango or something.)

The only reason why dancing in considered unmanly is because other men usually don't know how to do it, and get annoyed when their girlfriends want to dance with you because you actually can.

Besides, how does the old saying go: time spent dancing isn't counted against your life.

 

[Littaly]

Yeah it's unmanly, at least according to the traditional definition of "manly". It's also pretty freaking cool, so who gives a damn?

Seriously, I act all like "Can't dance and proud of it!", but deep down I wish I had rhythm

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well if care what people think enough to not consider doing something because it will make you unmanly you are already unmanly and should be ashamed of your unmanly self. It may be something I'll never do as I have no interest in it. However, others shouldn't care and besides who gets closer to generally considered hot women in skin tight outfits a football player or a male ballet dancer?

 

[DugMachine]

From my experience, girls like a man who can dance. Who cares if other men find you unmanly? You're getting laid, and they're not. Simple as that.

 

[viranimus]

?Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.? - C.S. Lewis

I Love this quote. Because Friendship or community was evolved out of being more successful when people co-operate. Friendship is what fosters the desire to cooperate with others.

Philosophy again has a purpose to survival. Philosophy along with religion is our moral compass. Its what tells us its wrong to slay newborn children or eat human flesh. Because those things detract from community and friendship and would leave us as weaker individuals than stronger community.

Now the last one, art, Is a subjective opinion, though it is mostly right. It is one of the things what makes life worth living. However in this case, dance, serves no such purpose in making life worth living. It is an archaic art form as in we have since developed greater forms of art. It was intended as a form of entertainment and mating ritual. We now have greater forms of entertainment and as for mating ritual, given we have 7 billion people on the planet, helping people to screw each other is about the last thing we need more of.

Look it is an archaic art form that is no longer needed. Anything it does can be accomplished by other means without resorting to rhythmically convulsing and self deprecation Its use is about as useful as cursive writing is today. Honestly I am shocked that it has remained with us this long. It has continually died off, because how many people can actually make money as a dancer? A hundred? A thousand? And I mean a dancer that does not involve taking ones clothes off.

Your argument is a slippery slope my friend. If you dismiss dance on those grounds, you may find yourself dismissing music, games, films, sport etc. on the same logic.

Slippery slope arguments are bogus. It is in essence a straw man argument. By suggesting that allowing dance to fall to its proper place of of obscurity that it somehow is going to push us over the edge as if we are incapable of metering our responses to things. Though Sport is hypothetically one that could be dumped on the wayside too.

Anyway, it does not matter. Dance will continue to exist, sport will continue to exist. this is just the opinion of one individual. My end is only to express it, its up for the reader to give it merit or not. It is unlikely it will have any impact on the world. If you agree with it, thats great, if not then just ignore it and let it fall to obscurity.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Balls no.
Just gotta look for the right kind (don't know if this entirely counts, but it's the first thing I thought of)

acoridng to what exactally? our culutre?

ever seen the hakka?

Saw your post exactly one second after I replied.

Aw, man. I'm going to a Haka workshop next saturday. So fucking stoked!

OT: I find it impossible to consider dancing unmanly on account of the fact I teach dance. I'm a bit biased, as you can perhaps imagine. Every style of dance is different, but I can't think of one I would actually call unmanly. Then again, I don't really care much for gender, so I'm not entirely certain what that word means. Is "froo froo cuddlypoops" unmanly or the manliest shit ever? So many questions.

 

[babinro]

Not at all.

Dancing typically displays strong emotions and confidence in the face of societal pressures. Refusing to dance comes across as being shy or cowardly, traits associated with boys, not men.

This is especially tough to say because I take the Seinfeld approach to dancing. I don't do it 'because it's so stupid'.