Although I'm very much Australian, my wife is Russian and her mother is a teacher. During a visit to my wife's small city, we attended some kind of summer show

Although I'm very much Australian, my wife is Russian and her mother is a teacher. During a visit to my wife's small city, we attended some kind of summer show at her mother's school, which had students from elementary to high school levels. There were some great dances performed by both girls and boys, of all ages. Some of the dances were rather "feminine" by the standards I was used to (I'd say ballroom maybe?) and I asked my wife and her mother whether the boys had issues with teasing or bullying. They actually seemed genuinely confused about why dancing would lead to teasing/bullying (their answer of course was no, there was no harassment). In my rural Australian high school there were a few boys who danced (and numerous girls) and the prevailing attitude seemed to be that "masculine" dancing like break dancing was cool and totally okay while "feminine" dancing like ballet would have you treated like an outcast, teased and bullied. I'm not sure whether the attitude I encountered in Russia is particular to my wife's region (North Caucasus) or all of Russia but it was quite interesting to see just how different things were.