Guys -- what do your friends think?

[pygmalion]

When I tell my girlfriends I dance, pretty muc across the board, they're either admiring or envious. But given the "dance is for girls" stereotype that's out there, I wonder what kind of reactions the guys get from their friends. Guys, how do your non-dancing friends react to your dancing?

[youngsta]

They make little jokes about it until they see pics of the women I dance with or watch me dance with them (the last time I went to San Jose for work a coworker decided to head to the salsa club with me. Ever since he's been like "man I wish I could do that") :D

[Spitfire]

My close friends who are not at all into dancing don't think anything about it one way or the other. Some of my family members think it's kind of cool that I'm into dancing.

One comment I like to make to non-dancers when I talk about dancing is "this is not suppose to be a guys thing? say that to these ladies!" :lol:

[turtle]

A slightly different angle; a lot of my guy friends DO dance, and I don't/didn't... I'm sure you've figured out if you've read any of my posts that my reaction was a little bit of envy. :? And like youngsta said, the ones that don't have no reason to make fun of the ones that do; they just have look at the girls that the guys dance with :shock: wow. But back in my hometown it was different... the few guys that danced took a lot of crap from the rest. (I usually refrained, as I was jealous...) I guess it depends on the cirlce of friends.

[bordertangoman]

what friends?

[danceguy]

Although it was an acquaintance of sorts who directed to me to my first dance school, none of my other friends dance at all. They joke at times about it, but I usually remind them that while they're sitting in front of the TV watching sports I'm out dancing with women, so they usually don't have much to say after that. :)

I'm tried to get some of them to go dancing...but they are all way too intimidated to try.

Oh well, more ladies for me to dance with. :wink:

[Sagitta]

How do my non-dancing friends react to my dancing? Envious?...Ffeel that it is great I'm doing something that I enjoy?....they are my friends after all. :)

[dragon3085]

As soon as they see the girls I get to dance with they all want learn. :lol:

[KevinL]

Since all I do socially since I moved here is dance, all my male friends are dancers, and they think it's great.

Kevin

[Taita]

Interesting Topic....

As some of you may know from my previous post, dance is a secret life for me. Most of my friends simply are not aware of that side of me. I think it may be too much of a jolt if they were to find out! :wink:

[_ruskitantzor_]

Most of my friends don't care and think its normal but other epople think that i am gay

[dancin_feet]

Most of my male friends like the idea that I dance, and a couple of them are eager to come and watch, but they are not interested enough to learn. I think their interest extends as far as they are friends of mine and interested in the fact that I love to dance. But that's as far as it goes. :(

Shame too, because I'd love to get a couple of them on the dancefloor with me - it would be a lot of fun!

[Vince A]

"Both" of my NON-DANCE friends don't even care . . .

[Vin]

This is an interesting question for me, I have 2 groups of friends, the group of friends I grew up with and the group I see alot now. The reason I differentiate is that the friends I grew up with still live in the same area and I do not and they are much more typical midwesterners. The friends I hang out with now are a much more diverse group than the friends I grew up with.
That said my "old" friends don't really think about it, when I mention dancing they tend to make fun of it and consider it to be not manly, on the other hand the one time they saw me dance a merengue with some girl at a nightclub they were all impressed.
My newer friends are very supportive although I think I drive them crazy with all the salsa talk. They do want to learn and a few of them have actually made an effort to learn.

[tsb]

if anything, i get people to try dancing after they meet my current partner(s) or they hear someone i've danced with mention how much in demand a good leader is. but my situation is unique as i have a dance floor in my home and my dancing & non-dancing friends cross-pollinate during house parties.

[Hank]

Almost all the men I know are either married or have girlfriends, so they don't see any reason why they should have to dance. They view dancing as some sort of torture that a man who doesn't have a woman must go through in order to meet women. Since they already have a woman, they are spared from needing to dance. Although they are generally sympathetic to my plight and fear the day that they become single again, they would much prefer that I not talk about dancing in front of their women because nothing good could possibly come of that.

[pygmalion]

LOL. That is hilarious. :lol: :lol:

[Spitfire]

Almost all the men I know are either married or have girlfriends, so they don't see any reason why they should have to dance. They view dancing as some sort of torture that a man who doesn't have a woman must go through in order to meet women.

I never heard anyone tell me that. Gee, if this is torture I'll certainly take some more! :lol: :mrgreen:

Seriously though most of us guys who go to the dances here are not there for the main purpose of trying to meet a mate though the potential for that is certainly there.