This last weekend my wife and I attended a couple of work-related Christmas parties. We enjoy going to these kind of parties: music, great food, great conversation and an open bar (not for everyone, but my wife and I had all the Sprite we wanted).
These Christmas parties also revealed something to me about my wife that I wish I'd known before.
She loves to dance.
This creates a problem, because I like dancing about as much as Bush likes Bin Laden, Obama likes Hannity or anyone likes attending Florida Marlin games.
However, I've also discovered I'm not alone in this. I've found most guys at these events share my opinion of dancing being the lowest form of communication. But the only problem is women have NO idea why guys feel this way.
Let me give you some insight:
1. Why dance? We are so much more comfortable sitting and talking about sports and the like.
2. Dancing puts ourselves out there while everyone is watching what we do.
3. In regards to #2, please don't tell us nobody is watching us or nobody cares. We know both of those are not true, because we also talk about how stupid the one or two guys on the dance floor look dancing to "Billie Jean." If we're doing it, other people will are doing it, too.
But the title of this entry is Dancing: The Double Standard, so why is it a double standard?
Getting away with dancing is not about talent. It's about gender.
If a girl wants to dance, it's fine. Even if she looks bad dancing--as long as she doesn't look like Elaine Benes--she's just one of the gals havin' fun!
If it's a guy, even he's good (unless he "Michael Jackson" good), other guys still think he's a dork.
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