Re: dance etiquette (and offensive sexism)

Date: 23 Feb 2003 21:56:15 EDT
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
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In article <b38e1i$5eu$email-address-deleted>, "Mikkalai" <(mail, not mall dot com) email-address-deleted> writes:
> :
> A willing person may easily find offensive sexism everywhere. For example,
> just a minute ago a visited
> http://www.ballroomdancers.com/Variation/
> And what I see in the description of the variation? "Man's Part" and "Lady's
> Part"! Outrageous!
> "She" is Lady, but "He" is not Gentleman! :-)
>
You know, I don't usually find "Lady" offensive at all. On the other hand,
there is an extremely competent swing dance teacher that I will never take
lesson from because they never refer to the women I dance with as anything but
"girls". It gives me the creeps when they refer to all my partners that way.
Michael Young