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Old 10-17-2006, 04:42 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Tarik Sultan View Post
and because people do make assumptions about a guys sexuality when they do something that is a female dominated activity, they worry about the misperception and want to compensate for it. All male dancers have to deal with this, no matter what form of dance they do, except maybe hip-hop.
Yet another clarification...

People are free to make whatever assumptions they like about my sexuality. I don't worry about possible misperceptions (if any) - and trying to compensate for it is one of my arguments - we shouldn't. "All male dancers have to deal with this..." - only if they choose to, only if they choose to...

I think what I was trying to say is that we should strive to be Belly Dancers who just happen to be male, NOT as males who just happen to be Belly Dancers...

Ok, so I'm weird!
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