On Mon, Nov 02, 2015, Donald Perley wrote: > > It often seems like people on contra email lists and facebook get more > joy from seeking problems to fix it through political correctness than > they do from dancing itself.
I'm sure it seems that way to *you*. Then again, I'm sure you used the same argument style thirty years ago when people started complaining about "faggot". Perhaps you might want to consider that some of us get joy out of bringing more people into contra dancing, and part of the way we do that is to make contra dancing more welcoming and inclusive. Just to be clear: I am not -- yet -- arguing that we *should* change "gypsy", I'm simply poking holes in the arguments of people who ridicule this discussion. I have to admit that technically your argument is correct WRT me, but that's because I haven't been contra dancing at all (except for Queer Contra Dance Camp). Instead, I've been focusing my time/energy on learning to call MWSD, which leaves this as my only outlet for contra dancing. ;-) -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
