Amusing story. Back when I worked with Jungians, me and my then-partner Thom went to their annual California get-together weekend. I heard on the grapevine that an analyst whose gay son died of AIDS wanted to make sure that the gays and lesbians felt invited to take part in the dancing after dinner. So she got one of the very liberal straight male docs to ask me to dance...which he did, right at the table. I did one of my quickest nano-calculations and declined with great thanks, saying I'd promised the first dance to Thom. (Thom and I, I should add, had never danced together before. He was a professional for years and I was always afraid of looking like a cripple in comparison.) So you can imagine Thom's shock when I took him by the hand and dragged him onto the dance floor, saying, "C'mon, babe, let's dance." And off we went! After he got his breath back, he said to me, "Wow. You actually have rhythm!" One of the nicest things he ever said to me.
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Amusing story. Back when I worked with Jungians, me and my then-partner Thom went to their annual California get-together weekend. I heard on the grapevine that an analyst whose gay son died of AIDS wanted to make sure that the gays and lesbians felt invited to take part in the dancing after dinner. So she got one of the very liberal straight male docs to ask me to dance...which he did, right at the table. I did one of my quickest nano-calculations and declined with great thanks, saying I'd promised the first dance to Thom. (Thom and I, I should add, had never danced together before. He was a professional for years and I was always afraid of looking like a cripple in comparison.) So you can imagine Thom's shock when I took him by the hand and dragged him onto the dance floor, saying, "C'mon, babe, let's dance." And off we went! After he got his breath back, he said to me, "Wow. You actually have rhythm!" One of the nicest things he ever said to me.
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