Here is a reality check on what a fundamentalist, unappreciative audience of "Muslims" looks like.
Notice how, despite the dancer's blingy half-naked costume, no one in the audience is paying attention to her AT ALL. She had to go to the tables one by one just to get people to look at her.
And then there's the disgusting part at 1:10 minutes.
This is what a woman's worth is to the very few audience members who acknowledged her- a filthy rolled up bill shoved in her costume!
What kind of parent would want their child to see something like that?
Furthermore, this 'dancer' is not particularly talented and clearly does not understand Eastern music. All she does is prance around swaying her hips from side to side, making odd snake-y movements with her arms while totally forgetting what the music is there for. And she calls that dancing!
Sorry, but "Muslims" are clearly not responsible for the 'cheap stripper in a bella' stereotype.
It is really sad and appalling that someone who claims to be a Middle Eastern dancer would make such racist comments about the very people whose culture she is supposedly representing. How ignorant of her to think that all Muslim women are veiled, or that if a Muslim woman is veiled then she MUST be fundamentalist and anti-belly dancing.
Let her re-post that drivel, but change Muslim to "Black" or "Jew" and that conversation would have been very different.
Last but not least, this ethically and morally confused 'dancer' and her supporters seem to forget that the main purpose of a restaurant is to serve food, what a novel idea that is! and that people mainly go to restaurants to eat and not to watch dancers.
But I can see where her frustration is coming from- she was obviously under the illusion that no living being can resist the exotic charm of a Bella-rina, only to be brought down to reality that patrons are more interested in their falafel sandwiches, as it is apparent from the video.
However, it is ethically and morally wrong to take it out on a woman whose only crime was that she probably wanted to enjoy a meal with her child without having to deal with a so-called dancer in her face.
Bottom line is, it is not the customer's responsibility to ask if there is a belly dance show, or what time, or who is dancing, etc.. The main priority at an eating venue is the kabab and homos, not a belly dancer.
So, unless you're on the menu, stop complaining!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
How Dare They Not Respect My ART!!!!!
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I find that many American women want to bellydance because they think it looks "sexy" or "cool" but they don't want the culture that goes along with it. They also don't feel a need to respect the culture from where the dance came.
ReplyDeletei feel that egyptian sluts with no clitoris have serious psychological problems..man your head is wedged so far up your ass you can see out of your mouth!
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous, it seems that your solution to all female problems is to get laid.
ReplyDeleteI've published your comment(s) so others can see the RACIST, hateful and bigoted view that western dancers have of Egyptian women. Bigots like yourself seem to think you own bellydance and claim to love it and to respect the culture of origin, but at the same time you obviously consider Middle Eastern women nothing more that Egyptian sluts with no clitoris and in your hatred you don't take into consideration that this was forced upon some people thru no choice of their own. You clearly show that you judge women, not by their achievements or by their contributions but by whether they are clitoris-less or not. This seems to be the only aspect of Egyptian culture you focus on.
Fyi we know exactly who you are, and if you post obsene comments on AAF one more time your real identity will be made public!