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To: epicure who wrote (9645)	7/27/2006 12:46:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

It's discrimination based on gender - for both dancing and sports. Masking that by referring to upper body strength is dishonest IMO. If upper body strength is the criteria you could discriminate on that basis - since some women do have a lot of upper body strength and some men don't. Also btw there are other m-f differences - on average - that work in the opposite direction. Men tend to be larger and heavier which ought to be a disadvantage in dancing IMO - handling a bigger heavier dance partner ought to be harder logically. Of course, my position would be that men and women are different in many, many ways and there's nothing wrong with openly and officially recognizing that - in dancing, sport, marriage, and lots of other things. Also I personally find the whole idea of m-m or f-f ballroom dancing silly. If gay people want to dance together they're free to do that without making a public spectacle of themselves. Just like gay people can commit to live together and merge their personal affairs if they want on their own w/o forcing the rest of society to acknowledge their personal arrangements as a sacred institution - marriage.