I feel sorry for those stupid enough to believe that ballet is racist or transphobic

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[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The ideal body type in ballet of course wasn't a thing until George Balanchine, a gay man who only liked tall, skinny women.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe he wasn't that gay.

[–]jet199[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Straight men like boobs.

The same issue exists in high fashion with gay designers wanting tall women with broad sholders and flat chests.

[–]Newzok 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Eh. Slender verticality is elegant. No idea if it's sexy or not. Just looks striking on stage and screen.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Women were excluded from ballet in the early days, because they were perceived as ungraceful.

[–]Anman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The only reason I do not like ballet, is what proper ballet does to a person feet. I kind of feel like it's a cross between horse racing (not good for the horses) and asian foot binding.

[–]dondon973 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't blame you, the mainstream medias became so woke that all the beauty of occidental world would be destroy by the machine of the post-modernism