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http://articles.sfgate.com/2000-12-12/opinion/17670659_1_san-
francisco-ballet-school-body-dancers/2

We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way
–Joan Ryan, for the San Francisco Chronicle, December 12, 2000
Fredrika Keefer is an 8-year-old girl who likes to dance just like her mother
and grandmother before her. She relishes playing the lead role of Clara in
the Pacific Dance Theater’s “Petite Nutcracker.” So perhaps she is not as
shy as many fourth-graders. But I wonder how she feels about her body
being a topic of public discussion.
Fredrika and her mother filed suit because as her mother puts it she “did
not have the right body type to be accepted” by the San Francisco Ballet
School. “My daughter is very sophisticated so she understands why we’re
doing this,” Krissy Keefer said. “And the other kids think she’s a celebrity.”
There is no question Keefer raises a powerful point in her complaint. The
values placed on an unnaturally thin body for female performers drives
some dancers to potentially fatal eating disorders. But that isn’t exactly the
issue here. This is: Does the San Francisco Ballet School have the right to
give preference to leaner body types in selecting 300 students from this
year’s 1400 applicants?
Yes, for the same reason UC Berkeley can reject students based on mental
prowess and a fashion modeling school can reject students based on
comeliness. Every institution has standards that weed out those who are
less likely to succeed. I know this flies in the face of American ideals. But
the reality is that all men and women are not created equal.

Like it or not, the ethereal, elongated body