Boring to dance with
Exhausting to dance with
Wrong type of dancer
Far too good/intimidating for me
Sleazy/ smelly
Often leaves me feeling battered or dizzy
Often leaves me feeling depressed
Once caused me a serious injury
I don’t know him/her
I ‘just don’t get’ him/her
Special song for someone else
Other
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I got refused last night. There was a surplus of men. There were a couple of ladies leading other ladies. I have no problem with that, its their evening too.
One particularly curvacious blonde was leading two ladies, which increased the lack of partners. I saw her free and decided to do my bit for the other guys and asked her to dance. She refused. None of this is worth mentioning, except for very curvaceous blonde's "reason".
"I'm a man"
I struggle with this because I'm naturally polite and don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I do sometimes think we've all gotten a bit precious about this. Why is it SO taboo to say no?
If you really hate dancing with someone, then why should you have to go through that unpleasant experience again and again - just for the sake of politeness? If you went for a drink with someone and hated every minute of it, you wouldn't say yes if they asked you out again, would you?
Also, if people felt more able to say 'no' then maybe the stinky/rough/dangerous people might get the idea that they need to change something. I don't think anybody would refuse someone nice/gentle/fresh just because they were less experienced, so I can only see benefits in losing this taboo.
Hi Miss Flicts, and welcome!
For the same reason that it's a good idea to say "It's always the leader's fault" - it's simplistic and not totally correct, but it helps to create a culture with the right mindset.
A weaker-but-more-accurate statement ("It's OK to refuse a dance if you're tired, if you're worried about injury, if it's a perv, etc.") might lead to a culture where refusals are more common, leading to more hotshotism, elitism and cliquey-ism. God knows, everyone gets upset enough already after refusals.
Yes, of course it's acceptable to refuse in any of those circumstances - but how can you explain all that in a single sentence during a busy class? You can't, of course. So you adopt easy-to-understand-and-remember approximations which you hope will do the most good.
Having just started, I'm somewhat relieved to find under certain circumstances you can say no. I'm in the dilemma on how to say no to someone who has caused me some rather painful hip muscle spasms after his dancing. I don't want to cause offence if he asks as I can dance perfectly well (& happily) with other dancers....it's just his 'unique' style
nope i don't do them excuses. he will come back and I think people deserve to be told the truth, sort of , without been hutfull.
last Sunday my daughter told me she wasn't comfertable with dancing with a guy, and could she say no to him.
so I pulled him to one side and said she was having confedence issues and would he let her do the asking untill she was more comfertable with her dancing,and that there were a few people she would prefer to do the asking with and he was one of them.....and then I immediately followed it with 'thanks for than I new you would understand' he hadn't had chance to reply, and then I walked off, leaving him to think it over.
I have also had a conversation with Richard (the copse) at Ealing, Halloween, and explained that there were some people that had issues, he had no idea. i'm not one of them
Well I did really need a wee so it wasn't a total fib . Just don't want to cause offence as I'm in my first month but I kinda need pain free hips
I probably won't explain it very well but I'll give it a bash.
Side by side and 'bumping' each other - I haven't had this move with anyone else
I would like to say I do suffer from bad hips its in the family genes, so it could just be me, but I have suffered from a rather sore spasm since dancing with him I haven't seen him since so haven't had the chance to say anything.
i couldnt agree more with your statement
so you dont refuse.
generally i look out for my wife and if one of our two local sleazes (if she has to dance with them she feels like they have made love to her on the dance floor) comes to dance with her before they get to her i will (if i am there) take her onto the floor myself this solves the problem
I've been to 2 ceroc classes, and been refused 3 times.
1) Lady was about to leave- fair enough, and I kept an eye on her and she did leave.
2) Lady needed to get some water- fair enough, and I saw that she did go and get some.
3) Not the typical refusal, but still... After the beginners' lesson, we go straight into freestyle with whoever we've ended up with after rotating partners throughout the lesson. I ended up with a lady who seems like she's been going for a while, and takes part in the intermediate lessons. When the freestyle started, she said "we'll just do the beginners' routine 4 times" we did that, and she walked away, leaving me feeling awkward, as everyone else (literally) in the venue was still dancing, and I just had to hang around at the edges waiting for the song to finish...
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