My little sister likes dancing very much, so my aunt and her mother enrolled her for a ballet class. The study time of the ballet class is on Friday afternoon. In a very spacious dance classroom, each student will wear a pink tutu and ballet shoes to the classroom to dance with a female ballet teacher.
Since my aunt was busiest at work on Friday, I was the one who took my sister to the dance classroom. One day, I took my sister to the dance classroom. While in the hallway, I heard a cry.
“Why!? I want to dance too!”
When I walked in, I saw a little boy crying and rolling on the floor. Next to that boy there’s his parent. Then I saw a familiar face, that was my sister’s ballet teacher. I heard the ballet teacher say to the boy’s parents embarrassingly: “I’m sorry, but we really don’t have a ballet for the boy.”
In the end, the boy was taken away by his parents crying. I feel sad for this boy, he just wants to do what he likes, but the irony is that his personal gender restricts his hobbies.
Gender should not be an obstacle to pursuing dreams or learning, but in modern society, there seems to be a clear line about what each gender should do, and this should not be. It’s like my sister’s ballet class. The teacher who teaches ballet in the classroom is female, and all the students wear pink. It seems that the color has excluded males from the scope of ballet dancing, but I think so Is unfair. Gender is not the key to determining fate, it is a way to show yourself to everyone, not an obstacle in the way of pursuing your dreams.
As a former ballet dancer (for many years), I was surprised by this story. I’ve had multiple boys in my dance classes in the past and they’ve always been adored by my dance teacher. In fact, she quite favoured them and gave them far more attention than the many girls.
However, it can’t have been easy for these boys to take ballet. As much as my teacher treated them well, their peers were not so kind. Ballet is seen by many to be a very feminine type of dance. I’m sure they were bullied by others and made to feel as if they were participating in something “girly.”
I agree that boys should be able to freely participate in dance, such as ballet, just as girls should be able to participate in football or hockey.