The Coding Ballerina

Look. Awesome developers want to be ninjas. Less awesome developers like to pretend to be pirates. But what does Sara J Chumps want? To be a Code Ballerina. Seriously? Well, listen to her rationale, "Dynamic, perfectly composed, and beautiful. Just like our code."

Peep it. No one makes websites like Real Ultimate Power for ballerinas. There is no Facebook app called Pirates vs Ninjas vs Ballerinas. Ballerinas were not used by the common folk in feudal Japan to strike back against the tyranny of "the man" and their armies. It is not even like there weren't female ninjas:



Okay, okay. I kid. Seriously, there were female ninjas. They were called Kunoichi. And you know what? They were awesome.

Listen. Think about this. If faced with a problem (programming or life), what would you rather do? Dance around it, or get in there and knock it out and maybe kill it with poison darts or shuriken or even your bare hands?

Is it this:

or this:

I think the case is closed.