Comments on: Salsa Dancing is Sexist and Racist

By: John P.

John P. — Wed, 11 May 2016 23:01:11 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Michael, but she was involved in biology research at one time and had to trawl through a lot of these sort of things anyway. These things make even Micros**t marketing material sound sensible.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 May 2016 11:13:38 +0000

John,
I commend improbable.com as a collection of research papers which your wife may have been reading.
The best of which are awarded the anual Ignoble Prizes.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 10 May 2016 08:04:29 +0000

What worries me is that it implies that there have been other analyses of salsa dancing and so that suggests that there are other academics with more time/money on their hands than is good for them.

My wife commented that she has seen scientific papers with equally obscure descriptions so it appears this isn’t limited to the humanities. Maybe somebody needs to do an academic paper on descriptions of academic papers and the whole thing can collapse into its own reality vortex ….

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 09 May 2016 16:04:34 +0000

Probably the same with any kind of dancing. It’s really the old “Dancing leads to sinful thoughts” argument used by ultra-conservative religious sects.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 May 2016 11:00:15 +0000

I’d be interested to learn if the same people have any views on the Ceroc dance style.

Mind you, the chain changed ownership just as I drifted away from that style of evening out in 2003. Things could be very different by now.

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Sun, 08 May 2016 02:57:12 +0000

“This thesis presents the first analysis of salsa dance practices in Europe that is led by postcolonial and queer-feminist theory.”

In the sciences, we call that foundational bias.