Gee, I'm beginning to see a grand design here

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They’ve already purged our universities of western philosophy, history, science literature, classical music, and capitalism. What’s left to eradicate? Well, I’ll you hadn't thought of ballet, but they have.

Ballet has been dropped from auditions at a leading dance school as staff say it is rooted in “white European ideas”.

The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), which aims to be a “progressive institution”, has reviewed the “elitist” art form as part of a diversity drive that has seen the introduction of new policies relating to gender and race.

Ballet has been ditched as a requirement for school-entry auditions because of its “contentious nature”, with teaching staff explaining that the traditional mode of dance comes with the baggage of “white European ideas”.

The centuries-old art form was seen as being a barrier to inclusion because of the exclusionary financial burden of taking classes, and also because of its idealising of certain European body shapes, and division of roles along gender lines.

The split of roles along gender lines, with female dancers tending towards pointe work and men customarily performing leaps and lifts, has also been cited as an issue, and the NSCD is seeking to become more inclusive by tackling distinctions.

Why not just recruit strapping male transgenders like NCAA’s Woman of the Year Will Thomas to the ballet team? They could surely lift the fattest of the new wave of affirmative action obesity queens, and the issue would go away, no?