I know, I know - I'm the only one watching Lifetime's first reality dance competition, Your Mama Don't Dance. (Well, me and Joel McHale. Together!)

So to catch everyone up, here's the sitch: We started out the season of this bizarre contest, which asks 10 professional dancers to compete with their parents in a series of hilarious dance genre performances ranging from disco to 80's, with three out gay men. Gay dad Silvano was the first to get ousted (with daughter Celia), and just this last week gay dancer Jonathan and his mom were given the boot. This leaves us with just Dante, the New Jersey native who is dancing with his stepmom Dolores.

I would be sorry to see Dante and Dolores go for a few reasons, including that he's adorable and talented and that these two really seem to be getting something out of the experience. And sorry, but the other duo up for elimination, Jesse and Rebecca, are really not doing it for me. Actually, I was shocked when they were saved from elimination and Jonathan and Rodilyn were sent home, as they seemed to have a lot more spunk and the judges were clearly impressed by Jonathan's technical skills. 

Anyway, voting is open until midnight EDT, and if you'd like to throw in a few votes for our queer brother-in-leg-warmers, head on over and click. To watch the dance that got Dante and his mama in the bottom two, check out the video below.

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? 

Dante Puleio's mama may not dance, but let's hope his step-mama does

What's gayer than a dance competition? A dance competition where the men are made to compete with their mothers as partners.

Yes, this is the concept of Your Mama Don't Dance, a new Lifetime show premiering this Friday. Five guys (and their mothers) and five girls (and their fathers) are enlisted to compete, with the twist being that the young hoofers are initially unaware that they will be paired with their parental units as dance companions. So it's basically like every wedding I ever attended where my mom dragged me onto the dance floor because I didn't have a date ... only these guys can do more than the Chicken Dance. 

The show's website has intro interviews with all twenty contestants, and we've confirmed with the network that three of the fancy-footed fellas are out: Dante Puleio (who is dancing with his stepmother and refers to his dad as "Tony Soprano"), Jonathan Silva (a 19-year-old who will be dancing with his hairdresser mom) and Silvano Merendi (who, as one of the parents, is dancing with his daughter, Celia).

All jokes aside, is this any gayer than any other dance competition reality show? No. But the difference is that the network isn't pussyfooting around or trying to bury the sexuality of the contestants. Go Lifetime!

Lifetime President Susanne Daniels told Variety that although it's all step-ball-change on the surface, Dance is "really about the adult parent/child relationship, and how complex that is. It’s going to be an emotional show. I want people to cry." Susanne Daniels, you are a cruel, wonderful woman.

Oh, and the host is none other than 90210 vet Ian Ziering. Thoughts? Because I am so watching this.

Jonathan Silva and his mom

Silvano Merendi and daughter Celia