ContraDB defaults to this set of role terms. If you create a username, you can login and set your preference to whatever arbitrary thing you want. 

I would advise against using these terms. At first, they seemed like a playful way to poke fun at gendered assumptions in the language we use. A decade on, they might seem like trollery inasmuch as they would disappoint partisans of any position in the gender role term discussion.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 12:31 K P via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hey all,

As I was researching a response to Amy's (Wimmer) Rompin' Stompin' question, I happened across dances transcribed/written by Chris Page (I note Chris has slso responded Amy's thread) and renewed acquaintance with the gentlespoons/ladles terms.

E.g. https://contradb.com/dances/1372

Does anyone use those terms while calling?

I've not yet returned to contra (pandemic) so haven't yet faced adapting to the rising avian terminology, but Chris's terms, while a little humourous to my mind, seem quite logical. (I suppose there is the risk that gentlespoons is, necessarily, abbreviated to... you know).

No, I'm start trying to start a movement! :) I'm just curious.

Ken Panton 
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