[Tango-L] Tango is for intellectuals, not for "single" ones looking at a pretty picture

[Igor Polk]

Randy wrote:
"You might want to consider running your ad with wording like this-
'Single Men: Would you like to meet attractive single women? Come to our
Argentine Tango classes' -in a very male dominated magazine, ... maybe put
it in a car magazine .. or on bulletin boards at motorcycle/powerboat .. I
agree with Eron, there is a stereotype, especially in North America .."

Indeed.
Sorry for this rather long citation. But this is a very good illustration.

This "Single Men: Would you like to meet attractive single women ?"
is certainly not the type of men I would invite to tango classes. Waste of
time. They pop in occasionally on their own.

Regarding sex, car, motorcycle.. Have you ever hear about the world
"Culture" ?

A cultural man is attracted to arts, politics, philosophy.
Theatres where filled 100 years ago so as political clubs, poetry meetings,
dancing parties - 
Where is all that? TV replaced them with dumb shows.
That is why we do not have enough men in tango, not some other reason.
The whole modern way of life is anti-cultural.

Tango should be advertised to intellectual men, who are tired of all that
dumbness in surrounding surreality, hectic pace of life. They appreciate
tango most - as a deep intellectual, artistic, and spiritual experience. 

..With a pleasant lady in hands.

Igor Polk.