> "According to that infallible scholarly source wikipedia, belly dancing has
> nothing to do with femininity or gays or whatever at all. It's just a
> gender-neutral folk dance form, like line-dancing."
I've seen belly dancing in the home of an Iranian family who had been performers of various sorts -- musicians, dancers, actors, .. -- for several generations. It was emphatically not gender neutral.
For one thing, once she started moving the rather chubby sister who was a professional dancer suddenly became the sexiest woman in the room by a wide margin.
For another, at least in that crowd, the men had their own utterly different dance form, quite athletic with much leaping and stomping of feet, and some of the squat-and-kick moves I think of as Cossack dance.
-- Sandy Harris, Quanzhou, Fujian, China