On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Ron Blechner <contra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If that's the case, one would assume there are also plenty of traditional > venue dancers who don't care either way. To that effect, genderfree roles > are not as scary as some have claimed.
Sure, I think that's probably true. But I think the most likely possibility is "most people don't care that much" not "several thousand dancers want it". > > Dances using gents/ladies up and down the East coast are dwindling in > attendance. I'm hearing that from nearly every organizer I speak with. I'm not disputing this (though I also don't have firsthand evidence of it) I just don't think gender free terms are *causing* the attendance change, as opposed to both attendance changes and gender free naming being caused by an underlying factor. > I don't understand discounting new dances at all. If there was a demand for > a genderfree dance, and it was filled, how is that not proof of growth of > overall genderfree dancing? The dances that have been gender free for decades and the dances that have recently one gender free are pretty different. The older dances have a community, culture, and core that formed several decades ago to be LGBT/queer spaces, while the newer gender free dances are mostly mainstream dances in a modern mainstream that is much more queer friendly. Jeff