hula

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Editorial note

Either way, hula-hooping and watching said-hula-hooping is hard to claim, on its face, as being gender-discrimination.

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Quick take

A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hula gathered in one view.

noun

A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.

verb

(intransitive) To dance the hula.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hula.

noun

A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.

verb

(intransitive) To dance the hula.

Example sentences

Either way, hula-hooping and watching said-hula-hooping is hard to claim, on its face, as being gender-discrimination.

No one should have to feel uncomfortable at the workplace, because the office is for people to work and be productive, not hula hoop.

> If hula hooping women make you uncomfortable It wasn't women hula hooping made someone feel uncomfortable.

Java just took off like a rocket, in the same way that pet rocks and hula hoops did.

It would be a pretty unusual thing to hula-hoop in the office, so it seems natural to watch it.

The second thing, about hula-hooping, without context, it doesn't really mean anything beyond what Horvath claims she was able to grok just by stumbling upon the scene.

So it kind of spreads within a group like fashion, their version of the hula hoop.

My questions about the public rendition of the hula hoop has large gone unattended to.

Horvath felt male co-workers gawking/staring/looking at female co-workers hula-hooping while sitting in a couch looked like someone visiting a strip club.

> But the point is that hula-hooping, or shirtless weight-lifting, shouldn't be prohibited just because some people gawk and others are made uncomfortable.

The substance of her concerns was not a rug or people watching hula hoopers.

If those women felt safe enough to be hula-hooping in front of these heterosexual men, then why was Horvath feeling so unsafe?

Quote examples

Hula hoopers weren't compared to strippers, the gawkers were compared to how "customers" behave at the strip club.

It would be excellent parody of the the hula hoop circle "you know, for kids" gag from that old movie.

It was men "gawking" at the women hula hooping, that made Julie Horvath feel uncomfortable.

Replace "hula-hooping at a party" with "showcasing their assets" and even you should be able to figure it out.

Proper noun examples

Hula hooping doesn't look like stripping, any which way you want to spin it, so given that she has her normality barometer so poorly calibrated, how can we believe much else she says without applying the same thought process?