On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Kalia Kliban wrote: > On 1/3/2013 8:21 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Alan Winston wrote: >>> >>>I don't think you need this for the argument; there were flourishes >>>when I started contra dancing in 1985 (but we called the people who >>>did them "hot-doggers" and complained about them). >> >>Which "we" are you talking about? > > I'm one of them. It's possible to flourish responsibly, but that is > often not the case. [...]
My point/snark was that using "we" as Alan did implies a kind of agreement that I think is vastly overgeneralizing here. As I wrote in the part of my post you elided, this has long been a source of tension across multiple dance communities, I'd bet it probably goes back hundreds or thousands of years. Your point about people disrupting the dance with flourishes is appropriate, but I don't think that making grandiose statements about community attitudes toward flourishes helps any. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
