<div dir="ltr">Thanks Donna.<div>How do the dancers know who's dancing boy and who girl? Sometimes they need to, or do the callers avoid any calls requiring this knowledge (e.g. boys trade from a wave)? </div><div>Jeremy</div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2016 at 01:58, Donna Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhuntdancer@aol.com" target="_blank">dhuntdancer@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="darkmagenta" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">He<font size="3">re in Philadelphia the MSW group (Independence Squares) is an LGBT and straight group and we dance to the calls of girl/boy and are free to dance whichever role we wish without any identifying "sashes". Our callers are fantastic at remembering who the couples/boys/girls are during any square.</font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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From: Jeremy Child via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>><br>
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Subject: [Callers] Boys and Girls<br>
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<div>This is for the MWSD callers amongst you.</div>
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<div>There has been much discussion on this group about the terms used for the two roles in contra dance. I do not propose to resurrect that here, I mention it to emphasise that many feel the terms used to be important, and that we should be moving away from any gender connotation in them.</div>
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<div>MWSD uses Ladies, Gents, Men, Women, Girls, Boys - all highly gendered. Is it time we changed these? If so, how? In theory with Callerlab it will be easier, but I suspect they would strongly resist such a change, since the "maleness" and "femaleness" of the roles (e.g. skirt work) is such a fundamental part of what MWSD is.</div>
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<div>Thoughts?</div>
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<div>(Apologies to those to whom this is all gibberish)</div>
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