Dance

I took dance lessons for thirteen years of my life, as well as play all types of very physical and non-physical contact sports. However because i was a dancer people viewed me as a sissy girl, a little fragile ballerina that would break in half if shook to hard. It really took a toll on me when i was going through my adolescents because i have always been very much a tom boy and i was always being told that i wasn't doing the proper ballerina things. SO i would just like to ask why do we have to be in pink and tutu's everyday of our lives if we are ballerinas why can't i love football and dance? Why did i have to be a perfect little girl when i wanted to be out rolling around in the mud?