# Too thin to thrive

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2022/07/19/too-thin-to-thrive/
- Published: 2022-07-19T21:43:22+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

“[Ballet] terminology has ‘strongly gendered roots’, with most teachers trained 
at a point in time that focused on a clear distinction between female and male dancers.”
says Francesca McCarthy head of undergrad at NSCD a dance conservatoire in Leeds.
Cute and wrong.

This kind of rhetoric is _blatantly_ wrong. Woman and man is definitely a gender
issue. But male and female is a biological issue. Dance performance is an athletic
performance and like all other athletic performances biological sex matters more
than gender identity.

Just like sports, not discerning based on biological sex in dance performance will
be a change to separate born females who identify as women from any chance of performing
at top tier. Or we’ll end up with arcane and ever shifting ways to determine how
transition can keep equity.

Today ballet is removed from the auditions but what will it be tomorrow? Doesn’t
anyone else find it annoying how a performance which has mutilated so many and ruined
innumerable lives in pursuit of an abject ideal ends up being scrubbed by the ideology
du jour?

How come facts weigh less than the support of woke managers get in this decade? 
How can these people achieve so much so easily? I hope anybody’s reflex answer is
not “because they’re on the right side of history” because this side of history 
has been written by white rich men, and the other one was used by some rich white
men to ignite colorless men to yearn for the riches of other rich white men and 
to keep all women out of it. Picking sides in history is like fish picking the higher
or the lower curent while still oblivious of water.

When in time has ever occurred such an amount of change dealing with fundamental
human notions of culture? Never has that been the case outside of bloodshed. How
are todays warriors so skilled to transform the human experience with pen and paper
alone?

Is wokeness a blade that cuts the fabric of the universe? Or is it so much purpose
led support that it’s actually a tank plowing through cavalry? This ballet thing
feels amazing to me so much so that I fear the fuselage and I will eventually meet.