[Tango-L] Gender Imbalance/Advertising for men

[Ecsedy Áron]

Interesting. Although motorcycle-gangs never been present in Hungary 
(probably because motorbikes necessary to have the prestige were and are 
quite expensive, so the majority biker is an intellectual or at least 
has his own business) there are a bunch of bike lovers among milongueros 
(actually there is also one milonguera...), while the massive majority 
of male tango (actually, any kind of partner dance) dancers work in IT 
or engineering...

Nevertheless, just because tango is (at the moment) danced by mostly 
intellectuals (outside Argentina) it would be somewhat weird to 
explicitly exclude all other social classes based on that. In my 
experience, non-intellectuals have _much_ greater talent for dancing 
than most intellectuals (in the beginning at least), not to mention that 
social classes are not what they used to be. If you do something for 
intellectuals only, it either requires state funding, it is very 
expensive or it is very low profile. Also, being an intellectual and 
being social or cultured are not equal for decades now.

With salsa (in CE Europe) you can see a trend. Although the people 
visiting the classes (and especially: venues) are much more diluted in 
the intellectual sense, it does not stop the salsa scene to be much more 
organized and the "core people" to be at least as fun to be with as the 
tango dancers. While they also have their problems, it is a lot easier 
to initiate a cooperation than among the intellectuals of tango, who 
mostly end up disagreeing with each other, or just simply not doing 
anything except talking about what they want (others to do).

Cheers,
Aron

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Ecsedy Áron
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