28 Mar
2018
28 Mar
'18
11:33 a.m.
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.
www.scissortail.org
On Mar 28, 2018, at 3:58 PM, Donald Perley via Callers
<callers(a)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.
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Jen Morgan via
Callers
<callers(a)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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