Fun with Photoshop (or GIMP for open source geeks)

[CoffeeCat]

If I were Catholic I'd be pretty damn offended...

...but I'm not Catholic.

[Distracted]

I am. I'm not offended. Just puzzled. Guess I just don't get the joke.

[CoffeeCat]

^ I didn't get the joke either. So it came across as a mockery instead.

[Distracted]

So they're wearing habits and cassocks. So what? Why is it funny? I really want to know, because it just seems stupid to me, like putting them all in ballet tights and tutus and talking about firing the "ronde de jambe torpedos", or putting them in orange robes with bald heads so they can shoot the "Hare Krishna cannon". Not funny. Just really dumb.

[CoffeeCat]

because it just seems stupid to me, like putting them all in ballet tights and tutus and talking about firing the "ronde de jambe torpedos"

I might have laughed if they put them all in tutus.

[Distracted]

Yeah. I guess that was a bad example. Shatner and Nimoy WOULD look pretty ridiculous in tights.

[CoffeeCat]

Yeah. I guess that was a bad example. Shatner and Nimoy WOULD look pretty ridiculous in tights.

Shatner, yeah - but I think Spock looks kinda cute in this...

[Distracted]

But tunics cover a multitude of sins. I'm talking unadorned ballet tights. Nobody except a man or woman with 6% or less body fat looks good in those, and guys have the additional problem of not being able to get too...interested...in their dance partner without humiliating themselves. Why do you think most male ballet dancers are gay? If they were actually INTERESTED in women, it could be downright embarrassing to go out on stage and grope one like that wearing nothing but a pair of hose and a jock strap!

[CoffeeCat]

Too bad I'm too lazy to actually make a picture with some unsuspecting Star Trek cast in tights.

[TPoptarts]

But tunics cover a multitude of sins. I'm talking unadorned ballet tights. Nobody except a man or woman with 6% or less body fat looks good in those, and guys have the additional problem of not being able to get too...interested...in their dance partner without humiliating themselves. Why do you think most male ballet dancers are gay? If they were actually INTERESTED in women, it could be downright embarrassing to go out on stage and grope one like that wearing nothing but a pair of hose and a jock strap!

That begs the question what happens to gay male ballet dancers on stage dancing alongside other similarly clad gay males

[JadziaKathryn]

^ I didn't get the joke either. So it came across as a mockery instead.

What? There was a joke? *checks overhead for humor* I just got mockery too.

That begs the question what happens to gay male ballet dancers on stage dancing alongside other similarly clad gay males

Yeah, at that rate I'm surprised there are male ballet dancers at all.

[blacknblue]

The only solution would be to require all male dancers to wear protective cups. Like ball players.

(Get your mind out of the gutter T'Poptarts. I meant FOOTBALL players.)

[TPoptarts]

The only solution would be to require all male dancers to wear protective cups. Like ball players.

(Get your mind out of the gutter T'Poptarts. I meant FOOTBALL players.)

Hey!! That's not my mind in the gutter

[TSara]

OT'

I'm a dancer...mostly Scottish Highland.....but when I was younger I took Ballet and Pointe.

From what I remember the men do wear some form of protection...in the very least a jockstrap.

I can double check on that if any of you all would like.....I'm a mod on a dance website.....someone there will know trust me!

As far as the Catholic picture....I thought it was funny.....but than again I'm a former Catholic turned Unitarian, so perhaps being that I have a twisted sense of humor I'm not the one to ask.

[Distracted]

Yeah. They make special dance protective garments with a little padding, actually. In classic ballet, men are rarely partnered with each other and usually aren't lifting each other in the air by the upper thighs and armpits, but I see your point. I imagine that most dancers, both male and female, are too busy concentrating on their performance to be even slightly aroused while on stage. Being on stage is nerve-wracking enough and requires their full attention. I was just being silly. I've heard all the stories, though. My husband did ballet in high school. He tells me it was absolutely THE best way to meet cute girls without having to worry about competition from other guys. He did have to defend his honor against other male dancers from time to time at dance conventions, but he said being virtually the only straight male in a hotel full of over 400 gorgeous girls was well worth it. I wasn't around to compete with them, unfortunately, since I'm 6 years younger and at the time was around 12 years old, and the only part I've ever seen him dance is Santa Clause in the local Civic Ballet's production of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"...every other year for at least the past 15 years. He dances a mean Santa, but he wears a Santa suit and boots, not tights.