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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

The Domain of Dancers

posted by on December 4 at 15:29 PM

What does this short video make abundantly clear? Men should entirely give up on dancing. We are naturally bad it. We look ridiculous when we move our bodies to a beat. Men, even beautiful men, should never go beyond the nodding of the head or the clapping of the hands. That is the best we can do.

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Chaz,

R you implying that they are a bunch of drag queens (in skanky white girl wigs)?

Cuz they do dance pretty bad...

How'd those guys get such phat stretch marked azzes?

Posted by Madge-YoursoakingINIT! | December 4, 2007 3:49 PM
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I refuse to dance. I even refused to dance with my ex-husband on our wedding. Maybe that's why things didn't work out...

Posted by Mr. Poe | December 4, 2007 3:49 PM
3

Nodding head, clapping... hey, that's IS how I dance! Were those men in the video or something? If they were, they're totally pulling it off.

Of course half of all of the greatest dancers in history have been men, but that's not really the point, and that knowledge does nothing to help me dance.

Posted by Dougsf | December 4, 2007 3:50 PM
4

Hey Charles, just take some salsa lessons & check out the Century -- hay salseros magnificos!

Posted by Los salseros | December 4, 2007 3:50 PM
5

Maybe that's the best you can do.

Posted by Paulus | December 4, 2007 4:01 PM
6

charles, a visit to almost any nightclub in detroit would *completely* destroy this theory of yours.

Posted by brandon | December 4, 2007 4:03 PM
7

GET YOUR JIT ON! GET YOUR JIT ON!

chaz applies failings of self to the universe.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | December 4, 2007 4:17 PM
8

T'ain't no "theory", that's merely an assertion. And a clearly incorrect assertion, btw.
I think this was just Charles sly way of inserting images of pretty black women into Slog again.

Posted by treacle | December 4, 2007 4:19 PM
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Egads, I actually agree with Charles on something !

And I will point out my prohibition against dancing is strictly limited to myself, because I look like a complete dork when doing it.

Those of you guys adept at the Lindy-Hip-Hop or whatever it is you kids do nowadays, by all means, cut the rug.

Posted by COMTE | December 4, 2007 4:29 PM
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I'm a lady who can't dance. I do anyway. It's not beautiful, or even charming.

But it sure is fun!

Posted by tabletop_joe | December 4, 2007 4:33 PM
11

I hope you are paid by the article, not on salary.

Paid to perv all over YouTube day after day would be flat wrong. Seriously.

Posted by Lake | December 4, 2007 4:36 PM
12

Fred Astaire is weeping in his grave.

Charles, is this by any chance the ONLY video of people dancing you have ever seen? Did you notice that a man won Dancing With the Stars -- as one almost always does? Have you ever seen Strictly Ballroom? Have you ever heard of the Nicholas Brothers, or Sammy Davis, Jr., or Donald O'Connor? Have you ever been in a nightclub, for chrissake?

Posted by Fnarf | December 4, 2007 4:47 PM
13

FUCK THIS POST.

Posted by Nick | December 4, 2007 4:49 PM
14

C'mon, Charles. You're just saying that cuz you're attracted to the women in the video, and because you have a habit of wanting to make a small, narrowly true statement (damn, those women are hot!) into an overarching contrarian and philosophical Bold Statement (therefore no man should ever dance). But, speaking as a heterosexual guy, you're full of shit. I've seen plenty of men dance that don't look ridiculous, and in about 90 minutes I'm going to my Argentine Tango class, where I hope to look only 50% ridiculous.

Posted by Uncle Vinny | December 4, 2007 5:06 PM
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@14 How Fun!!! Who cares if you look funny you're having fun...

The men in my life have always been better dancers than me. My husband doesn't like to dance but he goofs off a lot doing it and actually looks good.
Dancing should just be fun for most and only serious for those who want a career or are passionate about it.
I love to dance but my sisters to this day scream at me to move my hips more which I guess I do not do. Oh Well.

Argentine Tango.... sounds so fun!

Charles just likes those big butts and hips moving back and forth. That is something most men do not have. It's not the dancing Charles, it the hips and butts!

Posted by mj | December 4, 2007 5:28 PM
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The sad thing about this post is that Charles professes to be an aficionado of African-American culture, specifically jazz, and dancing has always been a huge, huge part of that. Before the boredom of pseudo-spiritual scales-playing (Coltrane, et al.) came in, jazz was the liveliest and the dancingest music ever made. The big bands played dances, not concerts, and dancing black men -- especially men -- are among the icons of the era.

Posted by Fnarf | December 4, 2007 5:45 PM
17

#13, you win.

Why must Charles speak in absolutes, anyway?

Posted by ha | December 4, 2007 6:25 PM
18

What does this short post make abundantly clear? Charles should entirely give up on the human race. He is naturally bitter about it. He looks ridiculous expecting people to live to the beat of his drum. Charles, even intellectual Charles, should never go beyond the doormat on his porch or the lintel of his apartment. That's the best he could do. For all our sakes.

Posted by ChrisB | December 4, 2007 6:41 PM
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@18: and imagine, he has kids. if i was religious, i'd pray for them.

Posted by Cook | December 4, 2007 8:31 PM
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charles, I am so sorry you were not born a point or two gayward on the Kinsey scale. You're straight to the point of disability.

Posted by fixo | December 4, 2007 9:17 PM
21

what did I say? one bad assumption followed by at least one built on it.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | December 4, 2007 10:20 PM
22

Blow the corridor! Separate us from the rest of the ship!

SEARCH AND RESCUE!!112@!

Posted by Mr. Poe | December 4, 2007 11:02 PM
23

Those weren't dancers. They were beauty pagaent contestants.

In other news, it seemed like the average man danced more in the 1950s. People would go out for dinner and dancing on a Saturday night, regardless of their age. No big deal. Now, the average guy rarely dances and usually only if plied with alcohol. What gives? Were men less "manly" in the 1950s? Hardly.

Posted by wha? | December 4, 2007 11:13 PM
24

A wise man once told me: Never trust a music fanatic who refuses to dance.

Posted by Hal | December 4, 2007 11:32 PM
25

Dude, do you know what dancing is? It's not trolling up and down on a runway, which is what these women were doing, and I know plenty of men who do more than clap and whatever. Jesus, can we get more stuck on stereotypes? I certainly never want to dance with *you*.

Posted by idaho | December 5, 2007 12:02 AM
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What exactly was the point of this post? I was expecting to see a bunch of white men badly dancing. Instead it's a bunch of African American women "walking"?

*Scratching my head as I log off.*

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