8 Oct
2019
8 Oct
'19
12:45 a.m.
I'm experimenting with teaching this move as a right shoulder 'round, but
describing it as friendly/playful. I will try subbing one of those words
for RSR. I think it gets the idea of a face-to-face move without the
flirty/slur. I know, I know, there are tons of suggestions out there. None
of them that I've heard get the attitude across, and suggest face-to-face
without actually calling it FTF, or "eyeballs" or something, or without
sounding almost exactly like the G word. I know many people are
uncomfortable with eye contact, but the interaction has been missing when I
call it RSR, and I hear folks being wistful for that. I think a "playful"
might bring the spark back, eliminate confused do-si-doing, and be rather
fun.
-Amy
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 12:19 PM Becky Liddle via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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!”
Becky
On Oct 7, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Mac Mckeever via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
only slightly related question: Why is it offensive to call a dance
figure a gypsy but not offensive to be a dance gypsy?
Mac McKeever
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