Reply #59: how could that be?

[Two Americas]

The ad would have no message then. Yet obviously it does have a message.

Clearly the message is that it is normal - understandable, that it goes without saying - for a Dad to not want his son to be a ballet dancer. Why not? Let's not be naive here.

Don't be one of "them" - be a champion. No one who was an adolescent male in this society could possibly be unaware of what that is all about, or unfamiliar with the aggressive pressure to conform to a rigid masculine stereotype, and what the alternative to that is imagined to be.