I'm experimenting with teaching this move as a right shoulder 'round, but describing it as friendly/playful. I will try subbing one of those words for RSR. I think it gets the idea of a face-to-face move without the flirty/slur. I know, I know, there are tons of suggestions out there. None of them that I've heard get the attitude across, and suggest face-to-face without actually calling it FTF, or "eyeballs" or something, or without sounding almost exactly like the G word. I know many people are uncomfortable with eye contact, but the interaction has been missing when I call it RSR, and I hear folks being wistful for that. I think a "playful" might bring the spark back, eliminate confused do-si-doing, and be rather fun.
-Amy On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 12:19 PM Becky Liddle via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > We should avoid the term “gypsy” in all ways, in my opinion, not just as > an official dance call. In some areas of the world it is a racial slur akin > to the N word. It has been reclaimed by some Roma in the same way some > lesbians have reclaimed “dyke” but when a term is reclaimed, it can still > only be used by a member of the group. I can call myself a dyke but you > cannot, and a black person can use the N word but I, as a white person, > cannot. Since we are not all Roma we need to avoid the term gypsy in the > same ways we would avoid other racial/ethnic/other slurs. I miss the term, > myself. There was a flirty quality to “gypsy” that “right shoulder round” > simply cannot connote. But if there were a traditional term that used > “dyke” in it, I would object, and I need to show the same respect to other > groups. So when I call this weekend, it will be “right shoulder round”, tho > in the walk-thru I’ll also say something like, “don’t forget to make a > little joking-pretend-flirty eye contact as you go around! That’s the fun > of it!” > Becky > > On Oct 7, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Mac Mckeever via Callers < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > only slightly related question: Why is it offensive to call a dance > figure a gypsy but not offensive to be a dance gypsy? > > Mac McKeever > > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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