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Originally Posted by zumarrad
What I found interesting, and frustrating, was the way that the academics just *assumed* that, for example, a two-piece costume was designed *and worn* solely to attract men.
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It's really interesting that the early tribal gals started out with the "choli", the Indian name for an Indian everyday garment, even though similar short bodice tops have been worn by Middle-Eastern bellydancers as stagewear before. But it's not a sexy, revealing top - it's a CHOLI!
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Originally Posted by zumarrad
Yeah, sure, it might have started life that way but most BDers don't put on a bedleh and think "tonight, I'm gonna score!!" They also thought that the heterosexual dancers danced differently than the lesbian ones, more seductively.
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O RLY? What, did they poll the dancers on their sex lives?
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Originally Posted by zumarrad
Articles by non-BDers almost always assume that bedleh is entirely for men. Presumably because women's bodies are entirely for men, unless they are in some kind of homespun all-women commune.
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Everyone I know dresses for themselves or other women. Where are all these non-existent men we're supposedly dressing for? They don't come to class, buy tickets to shows, or buy dance performance DVDs (with a few notable exceptions).