It's true that to play the part, to become real swing kids, men must become hypermasculine ("cats") and the ladies ultrafeminine "dames"). Whereas ev… - Jeffrey Tucker

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It's true that to play the part, to become real swing kids, men must become hypermasculine ("cats") and the ladies ultrafeminine "dames"). Whereas every development in popular culture for five decades has been an attack on sexual differentiation, and, for that matter, on life and virtue and goodness, the return of swing represents an embrace of the old sexual roles and thereby the beginnings of the old cultural values.