I know I’m
going to get burned worse than a pair of soles on hot coals at a Tony Robbins seminar on the power of
positive thinking, but I’m going to speak my mind anyway. American women have a
difficult time with tango because they are unable to harness the full extent of
their feminine powers. This is not their fault but it is their problem
nonetheless. Like Plato’s man in a cave who must find his way out, so too are
today’s American women blinded by the light of feminism from which they must
turn away in order to see who they really are.
I’m not
done with the analogies.
There
was an old lady who swallowed a fly, most people profess not to know why she
swallowed a fly and guessed she’d die but not me: she swallowed the fly because
technology had freed her from the shackles of motherhood and housekeeping and
now she was ready to enter a workforce that she soon found was tilted in favor
of men. Feminism was a necessary pill to consume yet it failed to accommodate a
female’s biological need to exercise her powers of seduction; powers which do
not come with a guide book like those that are issued to Women of Wicca when
they get their broomsticks.
In an
environment where young ladies are schooled in the fine arts of Title Nine then
thrown out into a world full of men and other competitors, American women are
at a disadvantage when they have to vie for the attention of men against ladies
from the S&S (sexist and socialist) countries of the world. Many times have
I watched a darling girl from the heartland outgunned by a sweet-talking,
eyelash-fluttering cutie from the Ukraine.
What,
you may ask, gives them such a proverbial ‘leg up’ on their U.S. counterparts?
I’ll tell you. In a society where you need permission just to travel from one
city to another and the person enforcing these rules is a man, a young girl
learns quickly how to exploit the ‘gifts’ that her momma gave her and even the
playing field.
Again
you may ask, what are these skills? Once again, as I’ve stated many times
before, it is not up to me to try and cipher just exactly what is going on in a
woman’s mind when she exerts her feminine wiles. I’m sure it is different for
every lady and the only thing I can say for certain is that whatever they are
doing, it works.
I’m not
saying all American gals are lacking in this particular form of feminine etiquette. What I am saying is that it is extremely obvious in the multi-ethnic population
of today’s tango communities. The home-grown female that realized the power
within is easy to spot: she’s the one surrounded by a crowd of men and she’s not
necessarily a beauty, she’s just shooting fish in a barrel. She also feels no
remorse for it is not her fault that so many of her counterparts have digested
the apologetics of victimhood without even questioning the voice
inside telling them men are not the problem, that it is the laws that are
wrong.
Now that
we’ve identified the problem you’re probably expecting me to offer a solution:
not going to happen. If American women can’t compete then I say we follow the
lead of the ancient Israelis in their battle against Samaria and shack up with
the women of the vanquished: the Germans, Japanese, Russians, Iraqis, Koreans and
Afghanis. The American woman needs to adapt or she will fail to pass on her
genes to the next generation. ‘Nuf said.
Not a good ending. 99.9% of tango women have already had kids before they begin their tango journey, so what I said doesn't apply. It seemed like a good thing to write at the time. Lately, I've been rereading many of my posts from ten years ago and see many things I disagree with but there are some pearls of wisdom every now and then. As explained in my mission statement, I write to expose the mind of a man on tango, I'm not aiming to be right or wrong, my main concern is to put into words what I am feeling at the time, it is very therapeutic and, I hope, of interest to some of the other milongueros who read my posts.
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