<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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!” <div class="">Becky<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 7, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Mac Mckeever via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydpab3d869ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class=""></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">only slightly related question: Why is it offensive to call a dance figure a gypsy but not offensive to be a dance gypsy?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Mac McKeever</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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