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A couple of years ago (October, 2002), I wrote up a summary of my experiences learning to dance. I did more after this, and my technique improved, but I basically stand by everything here. I didn't post it then because I didn't want to spend hours answering the same questions about it over and over. I'm no longer frequenting the same social groups. So now I'm posting it.

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I've finally become convinced that there are a lot of people out there, guys mostly, who don't dance, and who don't exactly dislike dancing. They intensely dislike learning to dance.

After an abortive couple of attempts at learning "normal" dancing, I learned the basics of Irish step dancing at The Starry Plough. ( That was annoying, but much easier. )

There's a similar category... ( Ballroom dancing and its relatives work very hard to be elitist )

I know this already, so you don't have to say it -- ( I'm just not getting it. )

( Just bitching, you can skip it... )

This is the Bay. You see guys putting out an unusual of effort to attract women here, plus I hang out in pervert communities where that's often even more true. Yet despite large amounts of attractive female pressure to the contrary, a lot of guys hang back and say "I don't dance." Aside from the couple of dances that I mostly know, that's what I do. And had I known what it would take to learn those, I probably wouldn't have learned. I can't blame "I don't dance" guys, because learning really sucks.

( Preemptive responses to obvious questions )

So why do I say there are people who might like to dance, eventually, but who hate to learn it? ( My attempts. )

( So why the venomous post? )