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Aneirin -> RE: Sexism ? (10/10/2008 5:35:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark
And what kind of dance class is this again A?
the.dark.
You know all too well, I have gotten over that bit
I do.
But unless you give people the full information then they cannot make an informed judgement on your assessment. It has nothing to do with women being insecure about themselves, it is the type of dance and the whole concept. We aren't talking the chicken dance here or waltzing. These are specific classes that can be deemed as sexual, even if that isn't the intention. Regardless whether you are a safe option or not, it is their right to not have men infringe their space. I have gone over the human rights issues about this with you before and I am not prepared to do so on the forum again, but your not giving the full info and therefore your thought of sexism cannot be correctly diagnoised my dearest friend.
the.dark.
I have not mentioned this dance to avoid prior judgement, I just wanted to find facts as they were without the mind being jaundiced by the fore thought of this in the west being predominantly a female orientated dance, something that Hollywood twisted for the masses, from a time when the lingering colonial mentality still viewed some countries and their ways as curios to be looked down upon.
The dance I wish to learn at a class, is Middle Eastern dance, as is performed by both sexes in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and parts of North Africa, to most in the west, this dance is called Belly dance, a word taken from the french Danse du ventre. Interestingly in Egypt, the main place of practice, the belly has to be covered. Hollywood changed this.
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