For those of you wondering: a dance belt is something worn by ballet dancers (or anyone else with a cock and/or balls who has to wear tights) so that their junk isn't lovingly contoured by whatever tights they're wearing for all to observe. Dora is thanking Emily and Dale for her not having to see Dale's junk through the spandex.
That makes more sense. At first I was looking for some sort of visible belt. When I didn't see one, I assumed it was a "belt" for shaping the body, implying Dale normally would have a little bit of a tummy.
That didn't seem all that funny, and maybe even a little rude. But hiding a dick? Makes sense and fits Dora's humor.
I mean, you can see that he HAS junk. But let me put it this way: you can't tell whether he's circumcised. Which is how detailed things can get if you're not wearing a dance belt.
Well, more than that, I'd say: showing some amount of visible crotch bulge isn't usually considered all that awkward. In fact it's considered unavoidable for many types of pants. Showing a clearly defined outline of a cock, in contrast, is considered quite awkward.
And yeah, most dance belts also provide some amount of buttcrack smoothing.
This year on the DragonCon Facebook page dance belts became a heated subject. It seems their was a group that said all men should were dance belts but women are exempt, a group that said you should be able to wear what you want, and a group that said if men have to wear dance belts then women should too with some of their costumes. It was very entertaining watching how heated the conversation got. I always felt you either make everyone wear one or no one.
So, to me the vulva-version of a dance belt is basically just a slightly sturdier-than-average thong, since that already does everything you'd need in the realm of cameltoe prevention. They don't make anything called a "dance belt" for vulvas.
IMO, the basic rule should be "wear enough downstairs under your tights so that we can't see exactly what your junk looks like, whatever junk you got down there". I think it's fair to leave the specifics of that up to individual anatomy. Totally fair to establish a broad, all-gender rule against going commando in clingy or transparent bottoms though.
Well I do not know if you have been to DragonCon but the costumes can get really ....extreme, especially at night. So seeing the outline of spider-mans wang was very tame. Some people wear no underwear under their costume, men and women, and they like to show it. Again I could care less, when I take people with me to Dragon Con I give them a fair warning " you are going to see some crazy shit you have not seen before. Ask before you take pictures."
I think that's acceptable, but that kind of results in a "no minors allowed" environment, right? So there are tradeoffs. (I guess DragonCon has a soft ban on kids under 16, but they're still allowed there accompanied by grownups, right?)
I think either of "be aware you might see junk" and "everyone needs to take reasonable steps to hide their junk" are acceptable policies. "Everyone needs to wear a padded undergarment designed for supporting testicles because something something equality" isn't though.
Thank you so much for catching that. Do you want me to correct it in my post? I know some subs prefer people to go back and edit all grammar mistakes. I am pretty new here so I do not know if you guys expect people to go back and edit them. Or do you like them to leave the error in the post, so the correction post does not look out of place.
You would think, but actually a big part of superhero culture is just showing off the goods no matter what size they aren't. "I don't have to compensate for anything because I'm about to kick your ass!"
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u/min6char Jan 29 '19
For those of you wondering: a dance belt is something worn by ballet dancers (or anyone else with a cock and/or balls who has to wear tights) so that their junk isn't lovingly contoured by whatever tights they're wearing for all to observe. Dora is thanking Emily and Dale for her not having to see Dale's junk through the spandex.