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    No gender balancing to stress about

    Seen this on a few ceroc websites , like their 'promoting it'

    I do admire Utopia and the like who must lose business re gender balancing

    I wonder when the Ceroc weekender market will give up on Gender balancing it must be a pain in the arse to administer.

    I don’t think it would be good thing for the ladies

    Who remembers Franco Cambers when the ladies followed you into the loo for a dance ?

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Who remembers Franco Cambers when the ladies followed you into the loo for a dance ?
    The music was so much better in the loos, the floor was vastly superior, and cubicles were conveniently close by for a more private dance.

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    I do admire Utopia and the like who must lose business re gender balancing
    On the contrary. I'm more likely to attend a gender balanced event. Also, gender balancing encourages ladies to bring a man along instead of turning up alone and then moaning they have to practically fight other ladies to get a dance.

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Who remembers Franco Cambers when the ladies followed you into the loo for a dance ?
    I do and it was bloody awful. I went to Franco's weekender in Camber with my sister...had I known just how much of a nightmare it was going to be I wouldn't have bothered, or if I'd known what it was like I would have booked with a male friend. I think all weekenders and events should be gender balanced.

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    I wonder when the Ceroc weekender market will give up on Gender balancing it must be a pain in the arse to administer.

    I don’t think it would be good thing for the ladies
    As much as it irritates me to have to get my weekenders a year in advance, I would hate to go to a weekender where it wasn’t gender controlled as there would probably be 10 women for every man. On the other hand great opportunity to improve on my leading skills

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    On the contrary. I'm more likely to attend a gender balanced event. Also, gender balancing encourages ladies to bring a man along instead of turning up alone and then moaning they have to practically fight other ladies to get a dance. .
    I think Stewart meant that we lose business because we stop ladies booking when we have reached a gender balance limit. And he's right - if LUX, Utopia and Twisted events were non gender balanced we would sell out every single event and make a lot more money - but then it would be 70% ladies.

    Nobody would want that and yet I still don't undertstand why lady dancers continue to support events that are non-gender balanced and that have a history of being loads of ladies over?

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Rocky View Post
    I but then it would be 70% ladies.

    Nobody would want that
    No way !!!


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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Rocky View Post
    Nobody would want that and yet I still don't undertstand why lady dancers continue to support events that are non-gender balanced and that have a history of being loads of ladies over?
    Part of the problem is that there are simply more lady dancers. There is a fall out from gender balanced events. Those ladies have to go somewhere. So they attend that non-gender balanced event nearby. Which makes the gender balance even worse.

    Answer? I've got no answers to this one. Just observations.

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    No way !!!

    Not when we could have 75% ladies. With those odds there might even be a lady who might settle for someone like me.

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Andy McGregor View Post
    Not when we could have 75% ladies. With those odds there might even be a lady who might settle for someone like me.
    I don't know if they would go that far

    I remember how Brean was last year. My first weekender and apparently Mike E got a load of flak for there being ladies over (but about 200 men didn't turn up, cough pay for the ticket and go, sod bringing a man, cough). I was so knackered it took me 90 minutes to get off the floor when I got on. I'd hate to think what it would be like if it was women unrestricted. Probably an extra 5-600?

    It was literally as soon as a dance finished someone was tapping you on the shoulder and swinging themselves into position. Then if you finally managed to get to the edge of the floor it was a wall of ladies to get through.

    Gender balanced events all the way for me.

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by rtwwpad View Post
    ....but about 200 men didn't turn up..........
    I wonder how many were single women paying for an imaginary man to get a place


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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Minnie M View Post
    I wonder how many were single women paying for an imaginary man to get a place
    A hypothetical question...

    I wonder how many men would have taken one of those places, if they knew it was already paid for and they could get it for free?
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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    A hypothetical question...

    I wonder how many men would have taken one of those places, if they knew it was already paid for and they could get it for free?
    I think quite a few!

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    Re: No gender balancing to stress about

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    ......... wonder how many men would have taken one of those places, if they knew it was already paid for and they could get it for free?
    good idea

    Quote Originally Posted by Ickle Sue View Post
    I think quite a few!
    Hope so

    If a female could afford to pay double, great idea to try and persuade a guy to come as a freebee (IF that is happening)


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