videos surfaced of the Finnish leader partying with her friends at a private event. They called her decision to party during the country’s economic crisis unprofessional and irresponsible.
But many women have rushed to the dance floor and posted videos on social media tagged with #SolidarityWithSanna to call out what they see as unfair, sexist treatment of Marin. They argue that the criticism she’s faced has been unjustifiably doled out because she’s a young woman in a sphere dominated by older men. And the clips have been viewed more than 100,000 times on TikTok alone.
“It seems like certain people still today have a hard time comprehending the fact that you can be both a young woman ... and a competent politician at the same time,” Stottrup said.
Amid last week’s controversy, employees at Alt for Damerne, which translates to “Everything for the ladies,” scoured their devices for their own dance clips. Then, they posted the videos on the magazine’s official account, with a caption that translates to “In solidarity with Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin ... we at Alt for Damerne editorial office emptied the camera roll for clips that never ... should have seen the light of day.”
“We wanted to emphasize the fact that you can be a great prime minister, CEO, editor, nurse — insert job title — and hit the dance floor on weekends, too,” Stottrup said. “If we want to have more diversity ... we have to expand our view on what a politician can look like. We have to accept the whole package and not just what we historically have been used to.”
Yes, they did (re: golfing or other things during even slightly trying times) as well as complaints as to how many times a president visited Camp David. It's just doubled down when the president is unpopular with the press.
And I bet every president has gone golfing or whatever precisely to get away from all the listening devices that likely have been in the white house etc since forever. WH and Congressional buildings probably got more bugs than a flophouse.
There’s a few different accounts, but my favorite was when he pulled his son John Quincy Adams out of a French school because it taught dance and he said it would deter from real education. He ended up being right with the latter Adams failing Greek and Latin on his entrance exams into Harvard. It’s the societal equivalent of us teaching useless shit because it’s fun and making everyone dumber as a result.
In the 18th century taking lessons with a dancing master was a custom of the old-world establishment, the wealthy and powerful. Among revolutionaries looking to shake off the Crown, dancing symbolized unearned privilege, a let-them-eat cake attitude.
The Puritans were also opposed to dancing for reasons that are probably obvious. Furthermore, in late 18th-, early 19th-century America, "The debate over the morality of social dancing was waged not only between religiously driven adversary and the public, but also between adversary and dance master. The dance master, despite his growing popularity in the post-Revolutionary and antebellum period, was thoroughly rebuked by dance opponents. Regarded by dance antagonists as ambassadors of the devil's work, dance masters were frequently forced into itinerant work, gaining private employment by families and organizations preparing to host a ball." https://archive.ph/krwjc
I've always hated dancing and I honestly don't know why, but the fact that it's primarily a narcissist's exhibition may be a key part of that and TikTok magnified that aspect exponentially
John Adams was right about dancing
Trump went golfing to escape all of the listening devices planted by the FBI.
Yes, they did (re: golfing or other things during even slightly trying times) as well as complaints as to how many times a president visited Camp David. It's just doubled down when the president is unpopular with the press.
And I bet every president has gone golfing or whatever precisely to get away from all the listening devices that likely have been in the white house etc since forever. WH and Congressional buildings probably got more bugs than a flophouse.
John Lithgow was right about dancing?
There’s a few different accounts, but my favorite was when he pulled his son John Quincy Adams out of a French school because it taught dance and he said it would deter from real education. He ended up being right with the latter Adams failing Greek and Latin on his entrance exams into Harvard. It’s the societal equivalent of us teaching useless shit because it’s fun and making everyone dumber as a result.
In the 18th century taking lessons with a dancing master was a custom of the old-world establishment, the wealthy and powerful. Among revolutionaries looking to shake off the Crown, dancing symbolized unearned privilege, a let-them-eat cake attitude.
The Puritans were also opposed to dancing for reasons that are probably obvious. Furthermore, in late 18th-, early 19th-century America, "The debate over the morality of social dancing was waged not only between religiously driven adversary and the public, but also between adversary and dance master. The dance master, despite his growing popularity in the post-Revolutionary and antebellum period, was thoroughly rebuked by dance opponents. Regarded by dance antagonists as ambassadors of the devil's work, dance masters were frequently forced into itinerant work, gaining private employment by families and organizations preparing to host a ball." https://archive.ph/krwjc
OK, so where does square dancing fit in to all that? Are the callers the descendants of the dance masters, chased into the backwoods?
Dancing is only good when it's spontaneous.