Absurd Truth: BBC's Ballet Spotlight

It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. All right, so first one, it's like Fight Club for the classroom. A Florida middle school teacher, a Florida woman hosted student fights in her classroom at Griffin Middle School. She was accused of organizing fights according to WCTV in Tallahassee. She was identified as the teacher at Griffin Middle School.

She's facing charges for contributing to the delinquency of a minor for what court documents say. I mean, it literally was like a Fight Club. The first rule about Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

So somebody talked. They said that several sixth grade girls told detectives that they had participated in planned fights during school hours. And they alleged they were invited back for additional fights. They also said that she made statements like and the teacher Angel Footman, 23 years old, she apparently made statements including 30 seconds, no screaming, no yelling, no phones.

And a detective indicates in a probable cause affidavit that he reviewed videos and identified her sitting at her desk failing to intervene and making statements like no screaming, no nothing, stop pulling hair. I mean, I'm on the fence about this. On the fence.

She was pulling hair is not like a legitimate fight tactic. Come on. Part of me is entertained by the whole idea.

I think it's Fight Club for the class. And then the other part is like, Have you seen like the bad behavior of some of these kids though? You know, I'm like, Hmm. Anyway, so she's in trouble. She said she didn't organize them.

But she said that she didn't want to she didn't want to intervene. So now she faces four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. It's like a middle school Fight Club.

There you go. A drunk Florida man swears at children in Disney and then threatens police officers. Just another Disney day. He was arrested at the resort in Orlando, the magical place. So apparently the drunken man he was visiting Disney Springs, the shopping and dining center.

30 year old Edward Stevenson. He pled not guilty to trespass according to Orange Circuit Court records. He claimed to be a registered nurse and while he was threatening law enforcement and he wasn't apparently. So yeah, he was being belligerent and cursing at kids and making inappropriate comments to minors at the toy store. So that wasn't good.

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If if I see like, you know, some of these third waivers who don't know how to do a smokey eye. It's like petty stuff, right? I get I get real snotty about you know, my dog. I get really snotty about ballet. I had 17 years of my life were spent studying classical ballet. I had I mean, I was in the classroom every day.

I was every day at the bar. Constantly there was always always workshops going on all kinds of stuff. And it is incredibly grueling. I think a lot of the discipline that I have in life comes from that it gives you and I mean, you have to be disciplined. And it is a sacrifice and it very much is I mean, it is super competitive.

And you do have to absolutely have discipline. And there it is a beautiful art form. I think it's absolutely beautiful because it emphasizes you know, the the God's creation, the human form. And there's there's, it's very male and female oriented, very unapologetically so celebrating, especially with the pas de deux, the two sexes, etc. And it's about you know, emphasizing movement and form and the you know, the the gracefulness. And they are very ballet schools are very discriminatory in terms of merit, physical ability, for a reason. You know, just like the military is discriminatory.

They want the you know, the best fighting force. You want the best performers. And now we have this story of a man who changed his name to Sophia Rebecca, or yeah, a former rally driver and IT technician was the first they call I don't believe in the phrase trans woman to pass exams at the Royal Ballet Academy, which changed its rules in 2013 to allow dudes in. He is six foot three inches.

Six foot three inches. And I was watching the side by side video of him with an ad like another ballerina. He can't there's no way he can go on point. His turnout. I mean, just the video that one is showing in the simulcast.

He has zero turnout, zero technique. It I don't even know how you can be admitted into the Royal Ballet Academy. When I mean, I feel like I'm watching Jim Carrey perform on Mad TV as Vera, right?

Remember that with the little pigtails? I mean, no joke. No upper body gracefulness.

No movement. I mean, his toes stick entirely in. I it is it is heinous. And it is a mockery of the art form. For the sake of what? I mean, this would have been Yeah, it would have been an SNL skit.

It's like it's Pat from SNL. It's a mockery of the form, not everyone, not even all women can do ballet. And it doesn't even matter about weight or anything else. Sometimes you can be a very lanky life woman who is the perfect height, you can't be super tall, who's the perfect height, etc. But you just have zero, you know, coordination or grace, right? It's not it's it's very, not every woman could do it, not every man can do it.

But to see this accommodated and shoved in people's faces, to me, it's a mockery of the form. Because what I'm watching is not a mastery of the skill. And I don't even see an attempt to master the skill. If someone wants to do something on their own time, whatever. But again, to force it on everyone and to say that, I mean, I just want to know what is the skill set of class that he's in? And he's six foot and three inches, how do you partner with someone?

Right? I mean, the technique that ballerinas develop, I mean, there's a reason why you spend the majority of class on barre exercises, doing basic movements, that work everything from your turnout in your ankle, all the way up to your knee, all the way up to your hips, you know, keeping your hips completely level, depending if you're in an arabesque or whatever you're doing. There is a reason I mean, these are drilled into you.

The same was always that a ballerina can tell if she misses a lesson in one day, the instructor can tell if it's several days in the audience can tell if it's a week. I mean, it is a very strict discipline. And it is something that, you know, girls start when they're young, by the time, you know, if you're entering ballet when you're three or four years old, but you're not even ready, really to go on point.

I mean, it's early if you're 13, 14. Because they want to make sure that your ankles are strong, that you have good turnout so that you're not injuring yourself. And even then I was talking to a friend of mine, her daughter just qualified to go on point and then now they have these amazing silicone toe pads, because it is you know, it's paper mache, it's a hard box and it scratches up your toes bleed. One of my friends lost her toenails. I mean, it is a very, you know, it's a it's a rite of passage for ballerinas. We had to use just like a little bit of Liam's wool.

We had our ballet instructor and I thought he was he was fantastic. By the way, he was incredibly strict and super condescending and I loved him. But you would just use like a little bit of Liam's wool. I try to hide sometimes I try to cheat and I would sneak off and try to put a toe pad in. No, you didn't do that. That wasn't allowed.

Now they have silicone pads. They wanted you to you know, the true ballerina he would say wants to feel the floor through the through the the bottom of her shoe. And I know I see this guy. It's just it's not it's not ballet. And I get really snotty about it because I think that there are some things that celebrate uniquely the women's forum and the gracefulness of humans. And I don't see that in this. I don't see that at all. Can you imagine somebody like doing it, you know, trying to it's like I see like failing Fox going into MMA or trying you know, UFC won't tolerate it. That's a dude who used to fight as a dude and he treats the women's leagues like they're JV and he identifies as a woman now and he goes and tries to beat up women and he got into it. There were some people trying to criticize Ronda Rousey because Ronda Rousey was like, I have no interest in fighting failing Fox.

And why would she? I mean, it's a dude who gets in a ring and thinks that a couple of years of hormone therapy are going to fix everything that nature has done, including puberty. But this, I mean, I don't know, I love ballet.

I think it's one of the best things that humans have done in terms of artistic expression, and the discipline and the no nonsense and the strict separation of the sexes and celebrating them each in their unique likeness. And to see it made a like a joke like this is just it's actually offensive. And it's an insult to all of the young women and the young men who don't think that guys who go into ballet are, you know, they're all gay. In fact, they're all players, most of them are players. But it's an offense to all these, you know, these people, young adults and teenagers and even kids who are genuine in their study and spend so many years of their lives perfecting this getting the reflexes correct the turnout training their bodies where it's muscle memory. And then like this.

What is he going to get a partnership next? I swear if like block shoes, or dance skin or somebody I will scream. And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. Okay, so this YouGov poll, this is actually hysterical. Have you ever hit the button to close an elevators doors because you saw someone was trying to get on and you wanted to leave without them? The number of US adults who said yes, it was actually pretty 61% of US adults said no. 50% of 18 to 29 year olds said no. Now it starts getting a little weird. I'm not sure if that starts getting a little weird. 65 and older 83% said no, but the number who said yes, 18 to 29 year olds 39% said yes. 41% of 30 to 44 year olds said yes. I'm not gonna lie, I totally think it. I don't do it.

But if you're not in front of the door, and the door looks like it's closing, I may try to help it. Just saying, you know, I don't know. We got to come back to this. It's a thing.

We also have to talk about how Steve has never eaten shake and bake. Yeah, also, New York Times. Apparently, some American women are relocating, leaving the United States for romance. They're trying to improve their dating lives. And they said that the dating scene has become so toxic in the United States. And I wonder why. I wonder why.

Why could that be? So they said that they're leaving, they're gonna they're gonna go like, for instance, France or somewhere else. And what are you gonna you're gonna complain about it there and then ruin that. Like you already ruined Pepe Le Pew. You know, he's been canceled.

They canceled that skunk. It's a thing. Um, I don't know what I think of this headline. Weight loss may mean a risk of death for older adults.

This is so stupid. So if you lose weight, then you'll die. I mean, they it's a study that looked at 17,000 adults 70 years old in Australia, 2000 the US 65 and up. They found that even a 5% weight loss increased mortality risk, particularly in older dudes weight gain in healthy older people should know association. Well, that does actually make me happy because then I can eat like bread and desserts.

And like that one lady said that viral video and get off fat and sassy, you know, when I get old. So there's that's something. And also General Milley is stepping down. Oh, is anybody sad?

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Who is? I don't. Maybe there isn't one. Do you have any relationship to the concept of girlhood?

Absolutely do. I find girlhood to be inspiring. There are a lot of human beings. Trans what their gender is. There are a lot of human beings that are girls not to me something new kids on the block song.

A lot of people and girls. There was an actual line from it. I don't have an idea why I remember that.

What in the five o'clock shadow hell did I just watch? And play for all of you listening. I need a moment. Oh my gosh. Put a hand over my mouth. Welcome back to the program. What happened to the segment?

It's gone. Dana last year with you. You're a bemused curmudgeon. And this was that was like a conversation that Dylan Mulvaney had with this guy named Jeffrey Marsh, who looks like a super groomer.

And I think he like wanted to Lorraine said he wanted to help kids transition with other parents knowing. You know, it's really hard for me to, to accept your cosplay as a chick. When you just like what can I just be when you just pass it? You don't even shave like you got a five o'clock shadow. Was that on purpose to remind because you don't even have to have that you still look like a dude.

You still sound like a dude. You don't need it's almost like they keep that on like sometimes how women just have hairy armpits. And then they pose on Instagram with their hairy armpits everywhere just to show you how edgy they are.

Look at my hairy armpit. I just why I feel like that's kind of the same thing. In a way, what they what they were doing with that.

But what did what did Marsh say that a lot of humans are a girl if you think? What in the world? Okay, so this gets us to that Bud Light story because apparently in Hell's Kitchen, Bud Light sales dropped 60% draft.

Bottle sales dropped 70%. Again, this is in Hell's Kitchen, New York. First time I was ever in Hell's Kitchen was for Wendy Williams. First time I was ever I did any kind of TV was with Wendy Williams, who was a very gracious hostess and I she was a pioneer in female radio and I'd fight anybody. She had a whole wig room.

I've never I mean, it was amazing. I've never seen a woman who had everything so dialed down. But this is in Hell's Kitchen. They have a pretty sizable, pretty vocal gay community in Hell's Kitchen. 70% like the gay community is is is mad at Bud Light. So I, I've just and but here's the thing you've seen the sales drop but you haven't seen them increase. Where are all the trans people just drinking up that Bud Light?

Huh? I mean, Bud Light, Anheuser Busch went to this great extent. You had this the VP of Anheuser Busch, who had gone out and said that they were how did she put it trying to combat the Freddie and out of touch branding and she noted that younger demos weren't drinking beer, particularly Bud Light, which sounded more like younger demos just didn't want to drink crappy beer. I don't think it's a problem with beer per se. I think they didn't want to drink what you call beer.

You know, your trans beer. So they, I think they did the least they could do. And they quietly partnered with I think the most offensive cartoon like caricature of women's behavior that they could find Dylan Mulvaney. I mean, honestly, if one of my girlfriends was acting like him, I think I would probably like try to Baker act her.

I think I would. I, but notice how the people who are flipping out over the Bud Light stuff, like, well, they would you have Chasten Mr. Poot Buttigieg who said, quote, if you're upset about a beer company supporting civil rights, you might want to start bottling your tears. LGBTQ people drink water to going to boycott that next that was so dumb. But how many people don't understand the concept of civil rights? I mean, progressives have so bastardized this definition that it's like throwing out as a red card every time they they don't get something that they want. I mean, we're at the point where even the mere refusal to purchase another woman's birth control pills means that you're somehow denying her a civil right.

That's so dumb. So what civil right is Bud Light? What were they supporting again? I don't know.

Like what civil right were they supporting? I mean, nobody. And no, it's like watching Elizabeth Warren drink beer. Nobody believes you. Nobody believes that.

I don't believe that he drinks beer. So I think they need the Gillette sponsorship would probably be more appropriate for that five o'clock shadow. I'm just saying.

Yeah. What right is Cain asks? Does the trans community actually have?

What do they not have? Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.