Maybe Lara Spencer hasn’t seen “Billy Elliot.”

It was dismaying that Ms. Spencer, a host of “Good Morning America” on ABC, would openly laugh at the news that a 6-year-old boy had elected to study ballet. Listing Prince George’s curriculum on Thursday morning, she ticked off “religious studies, computer programming, poetry and ballet.”

She pronounced it, “BAH-lay.”

And then she continued. “Prince William says George absolutely loves ballet,” she said, looking mystified while she stifled laughter. “I have news for you, Prince William. We’ll see how long that lasts.”

[Lara Spencer apologized on “Good Morning America” on Monday and interviewed three male ballet dancers.]

How could ballet be the punch line of this story in 2019? Is it not more surprising that a 6-year-old would study computer programming? And starting ballet young is smart: It takes at least 10 years to develop a classical dancer. But, of course, the problem isn’t George’s age; it’s his gender.