# I am shocked - shocked - to know that dancing is going on... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186 "2019-01-04T08:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/1 "2019-01-04T08:42:56Z")
(Mods, move this if it’s the wrong forum.) As a white male past middle age I am shocked to learn that the youngest Congresswoman used to dance on roof tops … [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dancing-video-viral-support/10685796](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dancing-video-viral-support/10685796) … and that some conservatives have a problem with this. (I’d like to see videos of a few of our members of parliament dancing as well as Ms Ocasio-Cortez.) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/2 "2019-01-04T09:32:14Z")
It’s not that she’s dancing it’s that she apparently has friends. She clearly doesn’t belong in Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/3 "2019-01-04T09:56:15Z")
Well, all I’m saying is that I don’t know of a single heavy drug addict who didn’t start by dancing somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/4 "2019-01-04T10:11:45Z")
And she danced on a rooftop “while in college”! What kind of politician actually went to an institution of higher learning?!? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/5 "2019-01-04T10:40:43Z")
I bet she can’t even harrumph properly. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/6 "2019-01-04T10:44:04Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And she danced on a rooftop “while in college”! What kind of politician actually went to an institution of higher learning?!? We don’t need no EEE-leets in congress. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/7 "2019-01-04T11:16:52Z")
She did a dance video, and then she became part of the wave controlling congress. Maybe Blake Farenthold should take note. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/8 "2019-01-04T12:06:17Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > She did a dance video, and then she became part of the wave controlling congress. Maybe Blake Farenthold should take note. To be fair, being caught on video dancing is also how we ended up with Courtney Cox. So there’s clearly a downside. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/9 "2019-01-04T12:31:43Z")
What kind of dour and unpleasant person would think that this video reflects badly on her? Obviously the person who first posted this thinks it does. I guess it’s one more aspect of a right-wing mindset that I’ll never understand. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/10 "2019-01-04T12:55:57Z")
Isn’t dancing illegal in some rural towns? I saw a movie about that once… ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/11 "2019-01-04T13:23:29Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > What kind of dour and unpleasant person would think that this video reflects badly on her? As a card-carrying dour and unpleasant person, and one who has found plenty about her to criticize, this doesn’t even register. Someone is trying too hard and it’s embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/12 "2019-01-04T13:38:09Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Isn’t dancing illegal in some rural towns? I saw a movie about that once… …where it is legal to play ‘Chicken’ with the slowest-moving tractors in the world, which is the exact metaphor for our currrent two-party system. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez may be as ill-informed, clueless, and benighted as her critics claim her to be, and she’d still be better than 98% of the representatives in Congress of either party. I don’t think she has a prayer of enacting any signifcant part of aome hypothetical ‘socialist’ agenda but I look forward to the recreational outrage over her by conservative malcontents and her erudite responses to their blatherings. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/13 "2019-01-04T13:43:25Z")
1.) That’s a very well produced video if it was done by college kids. 2.) I love AOC’s drive and ambition. 3.) She’s like ten different kinds of cute in that video. How could you NOT adore her after watching that? I wonder if this was done by the same guy who did ad campaigns for Ted Cruz? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/14 "2019-01-04T13:49:45Z")
This is the break the McCain campaign has been waiting for… ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/15 "2019-01-04T14:14:32Z")
I haven’t paid much attention to Ocasio-Cortez, but now I hate her for being energetic, confident, and attractive in college. What kind of monster is she? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/16 "2019-01-04T14:44:14Z")
I also just learned that she went by the nickname _Sandy_ when she was a kid. And now she’s in _Congress_! :eek: What have we done?! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/17 "2019-01-04T14:51:13Z")
Sandy used to be so wholesome until she hooked up with John Travolta so some Summer Loving. Blame him, not her. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/18 "2019-01-04T15:00:23Z")
Oh my HECK! That video contains blatant copyright infringements–dance moves from that subversive “Breakfast Club” film! Early warning she is a party to efforts aimed at demolishing the stereotypes that make America great! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/19 "2019-01-04T15:09:12Z")
Just wait until they find David Hogg’s _Risky Business_ dance video. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186/20 "2019-01-04T15:12:19Z")
If that video of me in high school rapping about Odysseus ever comes to light, my political career is over. (yes, it existed. Don’t know if it still does, but lord, I hope not.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-know-that-dancing-is-going-on/827186.md?page=2)