Tight Pants 'Chafe" Real Dancers

Today's Gleaner has an interesting article about how people assume that dancers who wear tight pants are gay.

"As soon as you see a man in tight pants you think they are gay. Mi nuh like see man in 'spany'. Mi nuh like see man inna di long boot dem either. I don't respect men who dress like that because I just think they are gay and using women as a front to prove they are not," says a dancehall follower, Denecia Williams.

Another dancehall attendee is quoted

"You may not be a gay; when you dress like that you give off the impression that you are gay. It's the same thing when they bleach out their face and cream out their hair. Might be they have feminine side that they want to come out and the way they dress is the way they choose to do it."

Quoting dancer Ice, from Timeless Dancers squad,:

"As long as is a basic jeans and it have a pattern and style and you just have to go with the flow ... When (a selector) say 'hey tight pants bwoy, mi waah kill uno!' yuh haffi mek sure your ting (pants) straight. You have some dancers out there who wear di whole spandex jeans and capri and mi nuh know why."

Ice also says that flamboyant dancers run the risk of taking a beating, recalling a rumour of a Montego Bay dancer being attacked.

"Well mi hear of one case where (a dancer) who come from Montego Bay get beat, 'cause people a say him a batty man. Him wear tight pants and all that and the way him dutty wine, Shabada nuh have nothing pon him. One time people rush dat and him haffi lif outta dat," Ice said.

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