Single sex couple on Strictly.

Who will be Nicola's professional dance partner I wonder?
I do like Nicola a lot.

I think Strictly has made us think that there has to be a certain frisson between the dancers and that equates into boy dancing with girl. For instance the whole thing about the rumba having to be "sexy".
I'm looking forward to Nicola and whoever her partner might be introducing a different way of looking at this, so that we can just look at the dancing for its own sake. I'd love it if they swapped roles sometimes, one leading and then the other. And the lifting - well some of the celebrities in the past not been able to do lifts, and its not been a problem.

How much more of this political correctness do we have to accept?

Jayt try substituting 'real life' for 'political correctness'.
Welcome to life as it's lived in 2020!

We have to accept political correctness until we stop calling it that Jayt and realise that who people choose to fall in love with is none of our business.

I can’t help thinking that ballroom dancing is designed for a man and a woman. Won’t it be a bit odd?

I learnt ballroom dancing at school with another girl as partner. It was an all girls' school. Because she was taller than me, she always took the male part.

I wonder if boys danced with boys at my brother’s school? I never thought to ask.
Probably not, as in my experience the boys from the boys' school were always hopeless at dancing, Grandma70s!

Of course, when putting on Shakespeare plays they had to take the female parts too, as male actors did in Shakespeare's day.

My granddaughter says it’s ok because they are all married to each other !!

Lucca if they weren't before the start of the series, they often are after!

Nice article and videos about same sex couples (men) in Argentine tango.

www.verytangostore.com/tango-men.html

"How much more of this political correctness do we have to accept?"

Until we accept that the way 2 people choose to live their lives is nothing to do with any one else. If they're not impacting upon, hurting anyone or insisting that any one else has to live the same way as they do, it is no one else's business how they live.

I am quite tall, so often had to take male parts in dancing and school plays. I hated it. I never felt remotely like a boy.

I remember seeing The Taming of the Shrew at my brother’s school with all parts played by boys. The one who played Bianca (I think) was quite disconcertingly pretty!

And this might cause some people to implode....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ3McIpkeM4

Olé!

Jayt

How much more of this political correctness do we have to accept?

As others have said, it's not political correctness

I’ve only ever ballroom danced with another female! And when we went to see Oti Mabuse, her husband and Ian Waite danced beautifully together.

Jayt

How much more of this political correctness do we have to accept?

Until prejudice such as this is a thing of the past, and we are all equals in everyone's eyes. Until couples are seen as "two people" and not "one man, one woman", or "two men" or "two women". Just two people.

Sadly, this is unlikely to be in my lifetime

anyone remember "rogerina" from the queen video of "I want to break free", over 30 years ago.
i didn't even realise who the schoolgirl was! wonderful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ