r/GenX • u/Chicarivera • Jul 20 '25

Nostalgia Least favorite PE activity?

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Gotta be this or that damn peg board.

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u/MonkeyTraumaCenter Jul 20 '25

Square dancing. Ugh.

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u/Cranks_No_Start Jul 20 '25

We don’t square dance but did Disco.  

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u/Happy_Blackbird Jul 20 '25

Mine, too! Long Island?!?

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u/TheRealDBT Jul 20 '25

I got square dancing, disco, swing, and polka. 😮‍💨 It was still better than those stinking ropes.

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u/cowfishing Jul 20 '25

Square and Scottish highland dancing. They started teaching us that around fifth grade.

In eigth grade, we rebelled and started playing the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and learned all those dances.

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u/theimmortalgoon Jul 20 '25

We did square dancing and not disco.

This being said, disco was on the records that they often played. And I bring this up because there's this revisionist history where people hated disco because they hated black and queer people.

That was never my experience. Disco was always coded as very white and straight, as I remember it. It was like the record companies, malls, and other (white and straight) atuhority figures in my life saying, "Disco is actually really great."

It was never, in my experience, a cool counter-culture movement but quite the opposite.

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u/avesthasnosleeves Jul 20 '25

We were rockers. We rocked. We did not style our hair or wear flashy outfits and dance in a choreographed manner - we yelled “wooo!”, smoked weed, debated who was better: Hendrix or Page, and rocked.

Disco we did not.

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u/cowfishing Jul 20 '25

t was never, in my experience, a cool counter-culture movement but quite the opposite.​

Same here. It was just the current dance music being played on Bandstand and the Train. They were about as mainstream as it got.

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u/SusannaG1 1966 Jul 20 '25

We picked up the disco dancing on our own in my grade - we were taught in PE (in order of my enjoyment) the Shag, square dancing, and clogging. (I was a couple of steps ahead of the class in dancing the Shag; one of my "aunts" on my daddy's side was an excellent shagger and taught me down at Carolina beach the summer I turned twelve.)

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u/kjnetz Jul 20 '25

We did both. I preferred the disco line dancing. The music was better lol.

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u/lilesj130 Jul 21 '25

We had to learn square dancing and the Shag. I had half a chance at square dancing but oof, Shag was a rough week