From: fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman)
Newsgroups: rec.skate
Subject: Re: Ice Figure Skating - A Competitive Sport For Gay Men
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:43:25 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Ah, yes... another installment from George's Freudian Theory of Figure
Skating.  Sometimes a skate guard is just a skate guard, George.

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In article <1992Dec22.145819.20408@eng.umd.edu>, georgec@eng.umd.edu
(George B. Clark) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.183600.19707@medtron.medtronic.com> ck10322@china.medtronic.com (Cameron Kaszas) writes:
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>>Well over 50% of the men in ice shows are gay - at least from
>>my experience as a straight male skater in both the "Ice Capades",
>>and "Celebration on Ice" (I was outnumbered 7-1 in "Celebration").

You know, George, I almost felt bad after flaming you the first time
around; however, your most recent "installment" has removed all doubts from
my mind concerning the appropriateness of my earlier reaction.  Here we go
again...

>If this were true, then why do ice skaters involved in paired dance
>competition always occur as a man and a woman? You never see two
>men skating together in paired dance competition.

Similar Pairs/Shadow Dance involve two people of the same gender.
This is a practical way of dealing with the fact that the vast
majority of figure skaters are female.

>Also, I suspect that spending some quality time in the bedroom is a
>necessary prerequisite for paired skaters to dance well together. It
>ensures both their bodies and personalities are in synch, since their
>sport involves touching each other all day.

This is the most insulting, demeaning, and degrading remark I have yet to
hear in this thread, and merely responding to it makes me feel soiled.
Talented, dedicated skaters have no need of illicit affairs to galvanize
their artistic unison.  Many ex-Soviet pair and dance teams are married; so
what.  Correlation does not imply causation, nor indicate which is the
cause and which is the effect.

>Why would a man who is gay choose a sport that required him to skate with
>an attractive woman several hours per day? In other words, I suspect there
>are fewer gays in paired dance competition than in other forms of ice figure
>skating.

This is about as ridiculous and absurd as everything else you've said!
Most people, in the course of pursuing their vocations and avocations,
associate very closely on a daily basis with people in whom they have no
sexual interest, because sexuality is utterly irrelevant to that activity.
Sorry to disappoint you, but ice dancing and pair skating, like the vast
majority of human activities, are not inherently sexual.

Thanks for the free entertainment.  :-)  Why don't we let this thoroughly
inane thread die a quiet death now?!

Fred Chapman
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