[Callers] Politically Correct?

[Louise Siddons]

I agree wholeheartedly with Jen, and appreciate her thoughtful response.

Donald makes the excellent point that history is the source of an ongoing challenge (it’s not the present, and the values of any one historical moment are not the same as those of another) for which language usefully offers a dynamic solution. I enjoy thinking about this aspect of dance history, and I enjoy sharing it with dancers (at appropriate times and in the appropriate quantity, of course). I see no reason not to enjoy this aspect of what we do just as much as we enjoy the vagaries of Sharp vs. Shaw siding, or wagon-wheel versus hands-across stars (which I assume we do, since I can initiate a lengthy conversation about these and other things with very little effort, among most dancers and callers I know!).

Louise.
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> On Mar 28, 2018, at 3:58 PM, Donald Perley via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> 
> When history shows a number of new terms introduced over the years,
> and each, after a while, picks up the taint of being derogatory, you
> eventually figure out that
> the word itself isn't the real problem.
> 
> <Snip>

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Jen Morgan via Callers
> <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>> Hello folks
>> 
>> I'd just like to second what Ron said.  We keep hearing about how organisers
>> would like to "get Young People in", but then express disdain for the things
>> we care about, such as avoiding offensive language.
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