[Tango-L] Labor Day Festival: a complaint

[robin tara]

Hi Cherie,

Here's another story, I was standing in the milonga at a festival and
one of the top professional dancers was giving me a neck massage. I
had just had a conversation with a woman about how aggressive the
women dancers were. How they would interrupt a conversation to drag a
man away to dance. Then, out of nowhere, the SAME woman came up to me
and grabbed my masseur for a dance!!!

This North American woman and her North American husband  now teach
tango in Buenos Aires! Can you believe it?

Robin Tara

On 9/2/08, MACFroggy at aol.com <MACFroggy at aol.com> wrote:
> I remember when I lived and danced in Los Angeles, one Argentine man there
>  told me he used to hide out in the bathroom to get away from the aggressive
>  women. And this was years and years ago.
>  I can only imagine how much worse it is today.
>
>  One woman friend from L.A. who I saw down here was being aggressive in the
>  BsAs milongas, and I tried to suggest to her that the Argentine men don't like
>  being pushed like that, and she told me that she was American and she was on
>  vacation and she could do any damned thing she pleased!
>
>  I can only say that when Ruben is accosted by a woman coming to his table to
>  demand a dance, he might do it that one time because it's very difficult for a
>  caballero to refuse a woman due to politeness, but then he will never dance
>  with her again.
>
>  So in the end, these women are only hurting themselves by "doing whatever
>  damned thing they like!"
>
>  Perhaps not too far in the future, these aggressive women will do all the
>  leading as well.
>
>  cherie
>  http://tangocherie.blogspot.com/
>
>
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