Highland Dancing used to be a mostly male activity. I'm not sure when women came to dominate the feild, but I dare say it has been in recent history.

Most of the dancing, if you look at the stories behind them, are obciously meant to be danced by men.

I still remember one time a young male dancer telling me about his experiences growning up the only boy in his dancing class. He told me that his parents had him enrolled from an early age and he hated it. He begged them to let him quit, but they refused. He was the only little boy in a class full of little girls, and he was all the time going on overnight weekend bus trips to festivals and competitions. Just him and a bus full of girls...

..."Then," he said, "I turned 13. And I realized -- I'm the only boy on a bus full of girls! And I said thank you, mom and dad!"

:-)
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