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Dry humping hello
Aug. 27th, 2013 07:07 pmI've been disgusted by the "dry hump hello" that normal people do in clubs - girls, fit and dressed to the nines, dance in groups. Guys with dirty baseball caps on wearing flip flops, freshly covered in pee from the splatter rooms, come up to them and start dry humping. If all goes well, after a while they talk (with wingmen chaperoning).
But, in gay bash, Janna and I got to see some...impressive white-girl twerking.
So first we go in, it's sparse because we're early, and there are 2 awkward skinny teens, hyper-nerdy, right in front of us. Aww. They dance early, and are...awkward but energetic. Go you little gay nerdy girls. Me, I point out a girl with awesome shoes - chuck high tops, but with the back cut out / paterned. She looks a little punky, so does another white girl with union jack tights and oddly new looking punk gear.
Floor is dominated by some tiny black guys, or a coffee and latte guy. They're small, and do this dance where they're really low to the ground and creeping along. Sort of like breakdancing met dubstep and made a horror movie really low to the ground. They're friendly in their group, mostly with each other, grinding and touching quite a bit.
Then we notice the girl with the chucks is quite a good dancer. She does that slow approach, matching the gay boys and circling in. They match some of her moves, and they move to grind together. Nifty, friendly, cute. But at some point they get more...challenging. Coffee tiny guy and chucks girl take off together in the middle of the floor, and she gets low to the floor and...hypertwerking. I mean seriously, the girl squooted down, arched and...her pelvis was vibrating into a blur; then she added it chest contractions and it was just sick. The guy laughed.
Later I saw her trying to work back into the gay boys, who were re-grouped, but they didn't warm up to her and she circled out. She danced with the awkward teens, not hypertwerking, but matching their moves and elaborating - just a little, as if she were trying to help them build from the same moves they kept doing over, and over, and over (and off-beat, oh girls).
Chucks girl, lost her shirt, and danced with another larger guy, and he was alone so it was curious to watch - he approached her and you could see her feel him out a lot more. Once it was established he wasn't going to push anything (which I guess means grab her body?) she got a lot more physical and bam - out came the twerking again.
So trying to describe a series of pelvic contractions doesn't make much of a story, but it was interesting to me to watch the nonverbal communication - I could probably "hear" it better in a club where I didn't feel threatened or disgusted. Dry humping in a gay club? Good fun. Flip flop sports bar? Date rape, obviously. I have my biases. Still, it made more sense to watch with a bunch of people who were by all likely accounts not going to sex each other later. It seems awfully forward, the whole dry-humping hello, but it's also not just random groping - it's a style of dance, there are rules, and you could see them played out a bit in gay bash.
And ho-boy do I not know how to do that. Twerking - now that would be a fun way to get attention.
José Vicar, AAL, Twerker-in-training
But, in gay bash, Janna and I got to see some...impressive white-girl twerking.
So first we go in, it's sparse because we're early, and there are 2 awkward skinny teens, hyper-nerdy, right in front of us. Aww. They dance early, and are...awkward but energetic. Go you little gay nerdy girls. Me, I point out a girl with awesome shoes - chuck high tops, but with the back cut out / paterned. She looks a little punky, so does another white girl with union jack tights and oddly new looking punk gear.
Floor is dominated by some tiny black guys, or a coffee and latte guy. They're small, and do this dance where they're really low to the ground and creeping along. Sort of like breakdancing met dubstep and made a horror movie really low to the ground. They're friendly in their group, mostly with each other, grinding and touching quite a bit.
Then we notice the girl with the chucks is quite a good dancer. She does that slow approach, matching the gay boys and circling in. They match some of her moves, and they move to grind together. Nifty, friendly, cute. But at some point they get more...challenging. Coffee tiny guy and chucks girl take off together in the middle of the floor, and she gets low to the floor and...hypertwerking. I mean seriously, the girl squooted down, arched and...her pelvis was vibrating into a blur; then she added it chest contractions and it was just sick. The guy laughed.
Later I saw her trying to work back into the gay boys, who were re-grouped, but they didn't warm up to her and she circled out. She danced with the awkward teens, not hypertwerking, but matching their moves and elaborating - just a little, as if she were trying to help them build from the same moves they kept doing over, and over, and over (and off-beat, oh girls).
Chucks girl, lost her shirt, and danced with another larger guy, and he was alone so it was curious to watch - he approached her and you could see her feel him out a lot more. Once it was established he wasn't going to push anything (which I guess means grab her body?) she got a lot more physical and bam - out came the twerking again.
So trying to describe a series of pelvic contractions doesn't make much of a story, but it was interesting to me to watch the nonverbal communication - I could probably "hear" it better in a club where I didn't feel threatened or disgusted. Dry humping in a gay club? Good fun. Flip flop sports bar? Date rape, obviously. I have my biases. Still, it made more sense to watch with a bunch of people who were by all likely accounts not going to sex each other later. It seems awfully forward, the whole dry-humping hello, but it's also not just random groping - it's a style of dance, there are rules, and you could see them played out a bit in gay bash.
And ho-boy do I not know how to do that. Twerking - now that would be a fun way to get attention.
José Vicar, AAL, Twerker-in-training
