cristina -> RE: Let's have a conversation about Women participants and and the Foro (Aug. 5 2014 8:47:08)
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Thank’s Estebanana for bringing up this topic. I’m pretty new on this foro but now want to share some of my experiences (my english is really horrible, so please be indulgent) – you can skip Nr. 1 1. Am I a guitarrist? IMO definitly/resolutly: no, I‘m not. I am playing the guitar, I need to play her, I’m learning Flamenco since the 70ies, playing sometimes more, sometimes less. So I would say: I’m a guitar-player. A „guitarrist“ for me is one, who decided to spend most of his time to the guitar, is a professional or aspiring to be one , or a very advenced guitarrist. P.e. El Farru plays the guitar but is not a guitarrist, the videos with Camaron playing the guitar you will know. In my youth I decided deliberately, NOT to b e a guitarist and spend 4 – 8 hours a day practising. I’ve had too much other interests and had to gain my money also for the family. But in my later years I was able to comply with one of my main intentions: to accompany el cante when someone wants/needs to sing and there’s no other guitar around. Once retired, I finaly could play 3 – 6 hours a day. And then a bad, flourishing arthrosis catched me. (therefore more time to write and read the foro) 2. Personal experiences here - There was one point , where I tought: let it be, no vale la pena, it is’nt worthy. It was the thread about How difficult flamenco is. The answers: the biggest difficulty in Flamenco ist how to go to a peña without your girlfriend. I could have answered only in a cynical way but I don’t want to be cynic. - The dialalogues/ discussions are too often about „who is right, who hast the ultimative answer and the last word“ - that’s annoying and repugnant and kind of ridiculous. a little kindergarten-like and good example for Freud’s theory about competition ( don’t want to mention the german phrase) - seems to exist a tendency (not only in this foro) : men take notice of men and react more to them. E.g.: The newest female member is cereza, you gave her a very warm welcome. Her first contribution was the Fandango from Camaron with Paco – silence, no reactions, alone in the desert. I bet, if she has had put a question , there had been some responses – look, a woman, who needs help! So, here you are cheers
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