A Morris dancing sexism row has broken out after a women-only group accused their male counterparts of making ‘crude’ and ‘gross’ remarks.
Heaps Morris, a group from Bristol, said they had received an ‘overwhelming’ number of comments from ‘male Morris dancers that have made us outright uncomfortable’.
The troupe, founded in 2023, added that the comments had ‘near ruined dance outs for a number of members’.
The group dances in the traditional Cotswold-style and was named after the ‘heaps of dross’ found at Troopers Hill in Bristol.
It describes itself as a ‘vibrant group of female-identifying dancers’.
Heaps Morris wrote on social media: ‘To be
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