Dear Strangely Moving Man On The Dancefloor
The other night, while having fun going out with my girlfriends, we encountered a very interesting male specimen on the dance-floor. His appearance made a significant impression. As a matter of fact, he dazzled us so much that I felt obliged to write him a letter on behalf of myself and all the other single ladies out there.
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Kim said | 3 September, 2010
Wow. What a b!tch. Hasn’t she ever the phrase “Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ll never be hurt,sing like no one is listening,and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
Christie Taylor said | 3 September, 2010
@Akbar: HUH???
Paolo said | 3 September, 2010
@ Kim: and evidently you have never heard the phrase “Don’t judge another until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes”, or in this case “danced a mile in her shoes”!
Joel said | 4 September, 2010
^^How interesting. You’re defending her from being judged, yet, that’s exactly what she did to a complete stranger. How exactly does that work? This “funny letter” was anything but funny. Childish and obnoxious.
Jay said | 4 September, 2010
wow what a mean and condescending letter. Not remotely amusing.
Akbar Lightning said | 4 September, 2010
you know, it’s not really the judgment that bothers me…i mean, i judge people’s dancing too…but i don’t really do it out loud…
what bothers me is the unconscious self-sexualizing, as an object that not only can be pursued as such, but one that ought to be pursued as such. there is an independence and radicalism that marked the 20th century culture that is desperately missing from the market frenzied banality of 21st century art…and i see Ron English to my right as i’m writing this, a wonderful satirist of consumerism…and yet, this adolescent sexualizing within our artistic community springs from a Happy Meal approach to community-mindedness. artists have forgotten how to be humanists, and this is a stunning example of what type of actions spring from such regression.
i know i am on a soapbox, but this letter seemed like a teachable moment for ideas i am very passionate about…another emotion that is slowly becoming taboo…
James said | 6 September, 2010
@Akbar : great comments.
@Nini: It is most likely that he wasn’t dancing for you; he was dancing despite you. You were excluded. This makes your letter irrelevant.
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Akbar Lightning said | 3 September, 2010
perhaps his purpose was not to attract females for a mating ritual…
this is an ironic objectification, as it seeks to re-introduce a man to his duty to act in accordance with female expectations of masculine sexual pursuant behavior…
how far this is from what the man was most likely doing, which was aligning himself with the music in a pure non-gendered form, and taking part in an ancient act of transcendence…
maybe you should try it…