Tag: conversation


  • Learned Helplessness
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    Learned Helplessness

    Veronica Tumanova wrote about this recently in her first essay since the pandemic, and as usual, she is spot on. She makes the case that more women leading is good for everyone: for the followers who gain agency, for the economy of tango schools and festivals, and crucially, for the male leaders who will now…

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  • Why am I doing this?

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    Why am I doing this?

    “Thank you for doing this for the community” he told me referring to my blog posts. To be honest I didn’t know how to react. All this started like a joke. I started by posting small texts on Facebook for my friends and as the discussions led to new texts and the new texts led…

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  • It is a woman’s world.
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    It is a woman’s world.

    In a comment I received on my post about men in Tango, there was the suggestion that we don’t have enough good leaders and that followers turning to leaders will increase competition between leaders pushing them to get better. In theory, this argument sounds perfect. Indeed. In a market with a small amount of suppliers…

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  • A ridiculously biased, toxic man. Me!
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    A ridiculously biased, toxic man. Me!

    What I consider normal is not necessarily normal for you and vice versa. Normal is just a construct of our minds. Actually there is not just one “normal”, there are many “normals”. Yours, mine, the guy who just found the post by accident, the lady’s who is looking for a cheesecake recipe and found this…

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  • We need you

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    We need you

    I haven’t seen her for some time but I assumed she was on vacation. It was summertime and I assumed our timings were a bit off so we hadn’t seen each other for a couple of months or so. When I saw her, I asked how she was. What she told me was surprising. She…

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