I spent several years doing ballet growing up. I was in a preprofessional company, surrounded by dancers that were FAR better than me (who blew my mind on the regular). I remember one day I came to class, and saw a large pair of pointe shoes sitting at my spot under the barre. I looked at them thinking “whoa some girl got some biggggg feet”. I looked at my instructor, confused, pointing at the shoes and he had a big smirk on his face and says “those are for you”. I was like “haha funny”. (I’m a guy - male dancers never go on pointe) He’s like “yeah all guys are doing barre on pointe this week to see what these ladies go through day in and day out”. Jesus the pain in my feet after that week was insane!! And I was a pretty damn good dancer at this point with some pretty strong feet. But nope those things kicked my ass. It really is a whole different game to go on pointe. Cheers ladies - y’all are some hard motherfuckers!!