Tarik Sultan

Good grief Mark, learn to take a joke some times. That's why I put the laughing face there.

Tarik Sultan

I agree with the sentiments of those who understood the context of what I was expressing. It's not that dancers are never propositioned, it happens all the time, although it's happened very rarely to me. I've been working the most popular Arab club in New York for 4 yrs now and I think I've been propositioned by a guy maybe....once...?....I think? I don't know, he just said I was cute or something like that.

thing is, I don't carry myself in a way that would make guys think I'm available. I do interact with them. I joke around with them and include them in the atmosphers, but its very obvious that I enjoy the company of the women. I really do enjoy turning the tables and entertaining them. I love their energy, their beauty, I don't know, I just really love being around a room full of women and dancing for them. If anything, It's the women who think I an Arabian nights gogo boy that I have to watch out for. Tonight was the perfect example. I got my ass slapped so many times I thought I was being born all over again! Usually I can control the atmosphere, but it was so crowded in that place tonight, the people were already drunk by the time I got there. Usuallly they don't start getting blasted till after I'm done and gone. I had absolutely NO room to dance so I spent most of the time just wiggeling in place, or standing on the tables and chairs, Not my idea of fun!

However, Mark, to address your comment. This is the second time you have tried to find an insult where none was meant. Even after I explained the situation the first time, you didn't even respond to say you understood, which tells me in light of your recent comment, your still holding on to it. So be it.

I could have choosen to take offence to your initial statement. I related the incident. It was a phone call, all the guy said was he enjoyed my performance on you tube. Its the same thing as if he had left a comment. He saw the number was the same area code as his so, it was a local call, and he expressed his appreciation and then hung up. Most likely, I will never hear from him again. I get phone calls and emails from people all the time, its nothing new or unususal for me, and they have never come with any sort of proposition. You took my experience way out of context by bringing something into the discussion that had nothing to do with anything.
"He was looking for sex". He said what he wanted to say and hunbg up. Where does sex come in to that scenario? It doesn't, but you brought it up from nowhere, Now how you sound? So you can talk out the back of your neck and say something so backward, but I throw a joke and YOU are Highly offended? And even after I explain the situation, you still keep insisting and trying to dig up dirt where there is only concrete, and You are HIGHLY offended. Partner, check yourself and what comes out ya mouth before you talk to to me, because if your feelings are that delicate, you can't handel dealing with me.

Even though my exchanges with A'isha can get heated, its only after a long time of continually being misunderstood that I start to get sarcastic. I'm also a very passionate person and will express the way I feel about an issue, sometimes very frankly, bluntly on occasion crudely, because when all is said and done, I am after all, still a work in progress and above all, I'm honest. If you piss me off, I'll tell you to your face, not beat around the bush, just like I told a'isha what i though. It may not be pleasnat, but you know what? You will never have to guess where I stand because I will not mince words or insinuate I'll tell you dead in ya face as clear as crystal. Just like I'm letting you know the deal right now. You can discuss anything with me, say anything to me, dissagree with me all you want, but don't put words in my moth or try to read things into my staements that aren't there. There's no second guessing neccessary with me, i say what I mean and mean what I say, literally, so if you gonna come to me, come correct or don't come at all. And no I'm not mad at you, I'm just letting you know who you are dealing with and what I'm about. So the day you piss me off to the point where I'm mean spirited, you wont have to wonder about what i'm implying, because there will be no implication.

It's not that we all don't know aor believe this sort of thing happens, but the way you brought it up was uncalled for and had nothing to do with the flow of the conversation, and just because I make a joke and bounce it back at you, you are HIGHLY offended? Come on now. You should know I'm a wise ass by now, so stop fishing for excuses to be offended already. If I were going to insult you, I would have done it long ago to your face in person, and I certainly would not have defended you on youtube when someone had slammed your video because they said you were too feminine now would I?