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AMM wrote:I spend a fair amount of time in places where some men wear skirts. If you have an environment where men can trust that they won't suffer for doing it, quite a few men will try it, and some will keep doing it -- in that environment. And not just old geezers: in places like Greenfield, MA, you see lots of young guys in skirts.
Who are you calling an "old geezer"? What gives with Greenfield, MA? That's rather out in the hinterlands.
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crfriend wrote:What gives with Greenfield, MA? That's rather out in the hinterlands.
Well, it may be far from what Bostonians consider the center of the universe, but it's in the Connecticutt Valley, where there are quite a few colleges and universities with lots of energetic dancers, and has a hall (Guiding Star Grange) which hosts something like 8 dances a week. It's also the home venue for one of the "hotter" Contra Dance bands: Wild Asparagus.
crfriend wrote:Who are you calling an "old geezer"?
The Contra (and English and Scottish and International, etc.) dancers in my area. The NYC area dance scene has a real shortage of people under 40 or so, I'm guessing because people right out of college mostly can't afford to live here, or else are living 3 to a studio apartment and working 18 hours a day. The dance scene consists mostly of the same people who were around 25 years ago. Philadelphia, Albany, and the Connecticutt Valley have younger dance scenes. Boston is big, but I don't know if they are getting new (younger) people coming in.
Bob wrote:Maybe it's time we start a Facebook group. The younger crowd tends to congregate there.
The reason Facebook is so significant is that interests ("likes" in the argot of Facebook) are shared with all friends and family also on Facebook. Thus interests can become viral far more easily, and garner a lot of attention.
Recent changes go further - these interests are now shown by default on a users public profile (and not just to acknowledged friends).
This may be old news to some, but I just saw this article about the changes. Evidently, privacy of any kind is now a "deprecated feature" on Facebook.
I think this makes Facebook particularly uninteresting for many or most men who want to give skirt-wearing a try, unless they want everyone in the world to know about it.
What gives with Greenfield, MA? That's rather out in the hinterlands.
