“A Facebook user recently commented that the Eagles had “played like they were wearing tutus!!!”
Our response:
“With all due respect to the Eagles, let’s take a minute to look at what our tutu wearing women have done this month:
By tomorrow afternoon, the ballerinas that wear tutus at Pennsylvania Ballet will have performed The Nutcracker 27 times in 21 days. Some of those women have performed the Snow scene and the Waltz of the Flowers without an understudy or second cast. No ‘second string’ to come in and spell them when they needed a break. When they have been sick they have come to the theater, put on make up and costume, smiled and performed. When they have felt an injury in the middle of a show there have been no injury timeouts. They have kept smiling, finished their job, bowed, left the stage, and then dealt with what hurts. Some of these tutu wearers have been tossed into a new position with only a moments notice. That’s like a cornerback being told at halftime that they’re going to play wide receiver for the second half, but they need to make sure that no one can tell they’ve never played wide receiver before. They have done all of this with such artistry and grace that audience after audience has clapped and cheered (no Boo Birds at the Academy) and the Philadelphia Inquirer has said this production looks “better than ever”.
So no, the Eagles have not played like they were wearing tutus. If they had, Chip Kelly would still be a head coach and we’d all be looking forward to the playoffs.“
Happy New Year!”
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Drag them!!!!!
I don’t have a horse in the football or the ballet race, but as a former dancer and lifelong Philadelphian, this belongs on my blog.
I’m sorry but if you think “it’s impossible to make a joke nowadays without offending someone” then you were never funny in the first place. It’s really not that hard to be a little creative and come up with a joke that doesn’t dehumanize someone.
like fuck yeah let me take u out to a fancy restaurant let’s get dressed up and go without all the romantic involvement or anything like that it would be so nice
*Quietly raises hand* Actually what the OP was talking about is a real thing:
while friendship is the level of being friends, if it were a scale then queerplatonic would be in between friendship and a romantic relationship because there is a deeper connection than just friendship that is like the attachment level of a romantic relationship without the romantic feelings
oh ok, so like this!
people are trying so hard not to be straight its ridiculous
Completely heterosexual things: A servant knowingly drank from a poisoned goblet to save a prince and later while in a painful dying state mutters said prince’s name while the prince is off disobeying his father on a suicide mission to try find a cure for said servant