Originally posted by mrsMxyzptlk:
Something I've long wondered: Is the dance of the seven veils a real thing? And why would Lois know it?
The dance was not created for this show. It is the dance considered to be the one done by Salome to convince Herod to produce the head of John the Baptist on a platter.
How and Lois learned it is harder to say. The most likely explanation is that Lois took belly dancing classes at some point. Although there is no simple way to explain that.
I do have to say its connection with belly dancing, and the connection of belly dancing with middle easterners in some of the most problematic portrayals of middle easterners, combined with the fact that Terri Hatcher is a quarter-Syrian in ancestry, do seem at some level a little problematic.
