With back-to-school season taking over just about every conversation these days, it's particularly interesting to think about howGood Morning America
anchor Lara Spencer listed off some of the activities he'll be filling his calendar with."In addition to the usual first or second grade things, like math, science, and history, the future king of England will be putting down the Play-Doh to take on religious studies, computer programming poetry, and ballet, among other things," host Lara said.
Like all sports, ballet is nongendered, just like basketball and gymnastics. People were understandably annoyed and upset at the whole matter, because laughing at a boy doing ballet has. People took to Instagram to share their strong feelings, including director and choreographer Brian Friedman who wrote the following powerful message about his own experience facing rigorous gender expectations.
"Growing up as a dancer I was bullied horribly which is exactly what this is. She is teaching the word that it is ok to laugh at boys for dancing and that is so sad,"Actress and singer Christina Milian commented on Brian's post, writing the following bits of encouragement."Nothing wrong with men or boys doing ballet. Matter of fact ballet to me is one of the highest and most classy of all forms of ballet. It's beautiful. It's like the opera of music.
We're happy to see so many people sharing their personal stories of gender and sport. It's definitely not weird to do ballet, and frankly, we think it's pretty darn cool!
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