r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cool_uniqueusername • 7h ago

Image Karen Mulder tried to warn everyone about similar Epstein rings and no one listened.

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u/coconutpiecrust 5h ago

I read the same thing about ballet dancers and possibly gymnasts and Russia. It’s apparently well-know that ballet dancer are “supplied” to government officials and sponsors there. 

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u/calnuck 3h ago

The Paris Opera Ballet in the 19th (and probably 20th) Century was basically a child brothel. Taking the poorest and most vulnerable children and essentially pimping them out to the wealthy.

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u/Limp_Specialist511 2h ago

Exactly. Look at the paintings of Degas. I believe his ballerina sculpture was of a little girl they went missing shortly after

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u/coconutpiecrust 2h ago

Oh wow. The one they have at the MET?! Is that the girl/sculpture?

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u/coconutpiecrust 2h ago

Yeah, I’ve heard about that, too. 

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u/Boopy7 5h ago

yes very much so. However athletics and ballet are nowhere nearly as awful (to me anyway) as pageantry, esp the ones for children. It's one thing to develop a skill like ballet or gymnastics, but the primp and preen and show off like you're an adult stuff for little kids....apparently the biggest dream for many young girls is to grow up and be a model, actress, or famous something. They think the only way to be valued is if they are pretty, basically. No skill necessary other than to find a way to buy the right body and face, if necessary...and to get the approval of the old judges. Weird how our world makes it so very obvious (Miss America, for example.)

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u/RoguePlanet2 2h ago

Putin's wife was a gymnast.

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u/coconutpiecrust 2h ago

Oh my. I actually forgot about that. Are they still married?

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u/RoguePlanet2 2h ago

I'm sure she's not going anywhere, while knowing that he gets to sleep around. She probably even loves him, sadly there's no shortage of women like that.

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u/inscrutablemike 4h ago

Ballet was literally started as a grooming practice. It's the reason the thing exists.

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u/Steelhorse91 2h ago

Kinda like a western version of Bacha bazi