[Callers] Another vote for "jets" and "rubies"

[Keith Tuxhorn via Callers]

This conversation exhausts me,  even though I know and accept it's all part
of the folk process.

So I will make my one contribution... two terms I thought of a couple weeks
ago.

Mun and Wem.

They sound enough like the current terms that the brains of both callers
and dancers can make an easy transition. They're made-up words, so they
have no gender. And they're short. And easy to say.

Mun and Wem.

Okay, I've done my bit.

Keith Tuxhorn
Springfield IL

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Dugan Murphy via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Since it was an article about my dance series that started this
> conversation about role terms, I'll offer that the primary reason we chose
> "jets" and "rubies" as gender-free terms is so that regular contra dancers
> from other places can come in and dance without needing anything to be
> explained to them since the terms are pretty similar to "gents" and
> "ladies."
>
> We also took a look at this graphic of Ron Blechner's analysis of
> gender-free role terms people have been talking about:
> http://amherstcontra.org/ContraDanceRoleTerms.pdf
>
> We may not use "jets" and "rubies" forever, but we figured we'd give it a
> try.  There didn't seem to be any reasons not to try and there are
> certainly plenty of reasons to try.
>
> Most men at our dance dance as jets and most women dance as rubies, but
> for the few who dance opposite, switch around, or whose gender expression
> doesn't fit the man/woman binary, I'd like to think that formally
> separating dance roles from gender is validating in a meaningful way.
>
> Dugan Murphy
> Portland, Maine
> dugan at duganmurphy.com
> www.DuganMurphy.com
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>
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