A Wall Street Journal article ("Less Painful Ballet Shoes Are Here. Some Dancers Refuse to Use Them"/August 25, 2024) aroused a thought. Having no interest in ballet and never viewing one I remembered my long-ago, now deceased friend, a martial art student who met dates by taking ballet dance notation classes ostensibly to document his martial art moves. "The women starved themselves and were hungry for a good meal," he said, explaining his success.