She is Misty Copeland, the very first black Principal Dancer in the American Ballet Theatre. She is amazing and talented and a ballet legend:)
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Yeah. I find ballerinas, who are disproportionately white and come from at least soundly middle class families, claiming appropriation to be more offensive than anything Jenner did.
Yes Naomi. I bet no ballerinas complained about Naomi striking a pose
She didn’t take a good picture, thats it.
As a balletomane (who never had a chance b/c of flat feet and no turnout), I don’t really care about this “controversy”. However, I will say that I can think of some ballerinas that would totally fit in w/ fashion mags and have physiques different from models’ (diversity is always good)....
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And Shade Court covered this excellently, http://jezebel.com/shade-court-the-shade-thrown-by-naomi-campbell-will-fr-1786997400
Can you even appropriate something like “ballet culture?” It’s something a lot of little American and European girls are familiar with and is pretty entrenched in (white, middle class) imaginations. It’s a mainstream thing.
I mean... “literally SO offensive.” lol no. No, it wasn’t. She was doing what many, many models before her have done! But she has a target on her back because she’s a Jennerashian. I think it’s a bigger insult to modeling. Like, wtf are you even modeling?
Naomi’s beautiful shade.
I find her quite “meh” as a model, on the whole.
It isn’t appropriation, it is just an embarrassment to ballet.
I literally do not know how to respond to vitriol like this.
Indeed. I’ve got people jumping all over me and telling me to fuck off or assuming I’ve said something transphobic when all I called for was a little patience. If we throw everyone under the bus, how can we expect anyone to a) ever be good enough, or b) ever even begin to learn anything? I cant think of anyone who…
They both bought property on White Feminist Island and don’t check their mail very often.
Simpsons: always first, always best.
That last paragraph is GOLD.
I love the fact that you used box in this scenario. :)
Is it really a memoir or just a really long tell-all/tabloid about all the Bravolebrities and celebs that probably won’t sue him?
