on 2009-10-20 05:39 am (UTC)
ext_22961: (0)
Well put. More than that, there's always a tension about rocking the boat when you care about what is, ultimately, a fragile and ephemeral activity; insisting that other participants join you in the 21st century (to put it slightly unkindly) runs the risk of alienating them, or creating a rift that the group can't recover from. I think it's worth making note of which anachronisms raise hackles and which don't (boys dancing together, yes; Twittering on a cell phone, no), and looking for the submerged social assumptions that might be responsible, but I suspect progressive Regency dancers are way ahead of me there.

I do dance almost exclusively as a man at RSCDS, but that is because I confuse easily, and would otherwise never be able to keep my corners straight. (So to speak.) I do sometimes dance with another boy to fill a set, and while people make noises about splitting us up when that happens (because we obviously wouldn't have chosen to dance together), nobody gives us the stink-eye about it.

I feel like [livejournal.com profile] ortsorfragments has posted about attending fancy-dress gender-free balls, but they would be in San Francisco, and perhaps of lesser utility.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

Profile

sorcyress: Drawing of me as a pirate, standing in front of the Boston Citgo sign (Default)
Katarina Whimsy

May 2025

S M T W T F S
    123
45678 910
11 1213141516 17
18 19 20 212223 24
25 26 2728 293031

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 1st, 2025 04:06 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios