Exacerbated Slime
Aug. 9th, 2007 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebOne thing about Argentine tango as I have experienced it over the past year is that it makes it more obvious who the slime buckets are than other dances do. This is what I decided when I felt some guy sniffing my hair or nuzzling my hair or something else inappropriate.
This guy also had some other problems like complimenting me in a condescending way. It's hard to describe why I felt like that, but certain compliments come with the assumption that the person doing the judging is extremely knowledgeable and thus able to have very important and worthy judgments. There's a difference between, "Thanks, that was fun," and "Wow, you're actually good." Yeah, shocking, I know. Especially when I'm not that good and neither is he. Okay, he was fine, actually.
But then I danced with teenaged boys and did not feel at all like I was in that "Controlled by Teenaged Boys" horror flick I told you about earlier, so maybe I'm wrong about the slime factor of this dance.
I'm probably biased because I'm not very good yet, so it's not very easy and thus not yet as fun as the dances I know better.
This set of lessons are over. Woo hoo!
I'll be happy to dance this with certain people who I feel comfortable with, and even total strangers, but unlike other dances, there are people I definitely want to stay away from. So sad. I like to be a bit more egalitarian. Well, I feel pretty good about how wide a range of skill levels I can deal with, but can only deal with a much narrower range of slime levels.
This guy also had some other problems like complimenting me in a condescending way. It's hard to describe why I felt like that, but certain compliments come with the assumption that the person doing the judging is extremely knowledgeable and thus able to have very important and worthy judgments. There's a difference between, "Thanks, that was fun," and "Wow, you're actually good." Yeah, shocking, I know. Especially when I'm not that good and neither is he. Okay, he was fine, actually.
But then I danced with teenaged boys and did not feel at all like I was in that "Controlled by Teenaged Boys" horror flick I told you about earlier, so maybe I'm wrong about the slime factor of this dance.
I'm probably biased because I'm not very good yet, so it's not very easy and thus not yet as fun as the dances I know better.
This set of lessons are over. Woo hoo!
I'll be happy to dance this with certain people who I feel comfortable with, and even total strangers, but unlike other dances, there are people I definitely want to stay away from. So sad. I like to be a bit more egalitarian. Well, I feel pretty good about how wide a range of skill levels I can deal with, but can only deal with a much narrower range of slime levels.