Right? Several designers have had their models walk down the runway en pointe at shows over the past couple of years. Unless Kendall actually said she was a ballerina or said she could easily become one, I don’t understand the outrage.

As a former ballet dancer, ballet dancers are the worst when it comes to this shit. The offense they took when they found out I let friends wear my toe shoes for shits and giggles omggggg the drama you’d think I’d let a peasant sit on the Iron Throne.

I cannot stand to watch fictional chefs pretending to cook (or people who cook well at home call themselves chefs) but it isn’t appropriation. It is annoying and not enjoyable for me to watch as entertainment, but it isn’t really offensive. Everything that I don’t like is not an affront on me.

This the equivalent of a kid banging on a keyboard and saying “Look at me, I’m playing the piano!”

Jeeeeesus Ballet-Dancing Christ! It is NOT cultural appropriation, and to call it such, just like when people call The Big Bang Theory “nerd minstrel” and carp about how that’s not what nerds/geeks are actually like (despite there being a broad and not entirely definable spectrum), is an insult to actual cultural…

Balletomanes and actual ballerinas were quite steamed about what they viewed as “appropriation;”