"Your Mama Don't Dance" ... and neither does your gay dad

You can't paso doble down the street anymore without running into a televised dance competition. What with Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, Dance Wars, Dance Crew, and now Step It Up and Dance and Your Mama Don't Dance, you'd think that the ghost of Fred Astaire had possessed every network head on the dial. (Not that I'm saying he hasn't, mind you.)

Seriously, before you know it they'll be adding a dance element to every show you can think of. How about Law & Order: Strictly Ballroom Unit? Paula Deen's Down Home Eats and Two-Step Cage Match?

Anyway, we reported a few weeks back that Lifetime's Mama features three out gay men among its 10 male contenders ... or, rather, featured. Yes, gay dad Silvano Merendi and his daughter, Celia, were the first team eliminated from the competition last week.

I'm upset that Silvano and Celia are gone for two reasons. One, we don't see enough gay parents and their children speaking with pride and love about their nontraditional families (Miss Washington, wut wut!). But perhaps more importantly, Silvano and Celia were the only father-daughter dance couple that did not give me the serious creeps.

There is something infinitely wrong about a father dirty-dancing with his daughter, and as we learned this week, the sight of men bump-and-grinding their soccer moms is only slightly less horrific. At least with Silvano and Celia the unintentionally disturbing incest overtones were pretty much absent.

As far as our two out gay contestants go, both Dante and Jonathan are safe from elimination this week, so no need to worry about them. Although I gotta say, despite being completely bizarre, wasn't Erick and Carol's interpretive tribute to maternal loss pretty much the hotness?

Or, wait ... am I the only person actually watching this?