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How a gender war sent the morris dancing world hopping mad by Richard Macer

Facing extinction, the world's oldest morris dancing group voted to admit women to their ranks. A welcome step forward " or a slight to a harmless expression of masculinity? My mouth was dry, my heart pounded furiously. I had two silk sashes crossed over my chest and was being led towards my first public morris dance by a bunch of elderly men who jangled like a herd of exotic cows. On a drizzle-soaked pavement outsi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM on March 29, 2019

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