I am curious - is this seen more often in women than it is in men playing the role of the woman? I've been the woman a number of times in dances, and I do see the pushiness of some males - twirling me when I don't want to be twirled, even being subject to a (small) dip one time. Generally though (at least in my home communities) I'm not subject to this. It also doesn't SEEM like women are resigned to pushy males - most ladies I see seem to enjoy their twirls and dips - but that could be due to the segregation of lines that has occurred, at least at Glen Echo.
Perry ________________________________ From: Ron T Blechner <[email protected]> To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [Callers] women's experiences I've been having conversations with a lot of my female friends in the dance community over the past 6 months over their experiences as women. I won't make a lengthy itemization of what I've found, because I think it's something every caller should do for themself, however, the one thought I'd share is the one I find most disappointing: - Women have expressed that they put up with far more crap from pushy males than I personally would put up with had the situation be reversed; there is a far more prevalent sense of resignation of "that's just how things are / it's not so bad" than I had believed. in dance, Ron On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013, Tom Hinds wrote: > > > > I haven't been following this topic of lead/follow at all but Bree's > > statement really caught my eye. I'm very curious to know what it's > > like to dance as a women with men who have a wide range of skills > > and personalities. > > > > I should set aside an evening and dance disguised as a women to > > really understand what the experience is like. > > Unless you have experience cross-dressing (i.e. can successfully > disguise yourself), your experience will almost certainly be somewhat > different from a woman's. I definitely get treated somewhat differently > by men. > _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
