Cheerleading - not sure I want my DD to do this

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Anonymous wrote:I would never let any family member do this. They might as well get a stripper pole in the house so she can practice.

Never.

Why?

God forbid female athletes be allowed to dress up and wear make up.

I always forget, in order to be taken seriously we can’t show any skin or look remotely “attractive”

So narrow minded

NP.

They are dressed and dancing provocatively to attract male attention in the audience. That is one of the actual stated purposes of cheerleaders. I’m sure they dance around that fact on a high school cheeeleading team, but that’s what cheerleading boils down to.

What organization has published that?

Any NFL cheerleading team. It’s very direct. They sign contracts saying they will weigh a certain amount and not change their hair, etc.

And the contract says they will “dress and dance provocatively to attract male attention in the audience”? Interesting contractual language.

[Anonymous]

So which one were you growing up OP - suburban or ghetto?

[Anonymous]

DCUM is so skewed. It’s not such a terrible thing and there is so much fun and positive that comes from the social aspects of cheerleading. I would support her choice. Also cheering these days is alot more athletic with some serious gymnastics like qualities. You let her try out, she made the team, nothing to do now but support her choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is so skewed. It’s not such a terrible thing and there is so much fun and positive that comes from the social aspects of cheerleading. I would support her choice. Also cheering these days is alot more athletic with some serious gymnastics like qualities. You let her try out, she made the team, nothing to do now but support her choice.

Agree.

Isn’t part of being a progressive woman and/or a feminist exercising your right to do whatever you want with yourself and your body? If she is aware of the outfits and aware of what they’ll be doing, who cares? She’s obviously got talent and many cheerleaders are so much more than a pretty face. They often do talented and difficult things. I swear some people here are just harboring bad memories of cheerleaders they didn’t like growing up, or using cheerleaders as a way to try to make themselves seem better for being into “intellectual” things. Get over it. Support each other.

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You let her try out and now that she made it you are going to tell her no? If she wants to do it, let her. I was a cheerleader for a few years in high school. I also ran track and took karate on the side. I thought it was fun and made some good friends. I think it’s important for kids to be in some sort of activity in high school, let your daughter have a say in what she’s interested in.

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Anonymous wrote:I would never let any family member do this. They might as well get a stripper pole in the house so she can practice.

Never.

Why?

God forbid female athletes be allowed to dress up and wear make up.

I always forget, in order to be taken seriously we can’t show any skin or look remotely “attractive”

So narrow minded

NP.

They are dressed and dancing provocatively to attract male attention in the audience. That is one of the actual stated purposes of cheerleaders. I’m sure they dance around that fact on a high school cheeeleading team, but that’s what cheerleading boils down to.

What organization has published that?

Any NFL cheerleading team. It’s very direct. They sign contracts saying they will weigh a certain amount and not change their hair, etc.

And the contract says they will “dress and dance provocatively to attract male attention in the audience”? Interesting contractual language.

And they’re keeping their weight down, sticking their asses out, and wearing their hair down during their “sport” for what reason????

Watch the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders show on CMT. It might not be in a contract, but the coaches are 100 percent clear what they are doing and who it’s for.

[Anonymous]

You people are tiresome. I feel sorry for OP's daughter.

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Anonymous wrote:I would never let any family member do this. They might as well get a stripper pole in the house so she can practice.

Never.

Why?

God forbid female athletes be allowed to dress up and wear make up.

I always forget, in order to be taken seriously we can’t show any skin or look remotely “attractive”

So narrow minded

NP.

They are dressed and dancing provocatively to attract male attention in the audience. That is one of the actual stated purposes of cheerleaders. I’m sure they dance around that fact on a high school cheeeleading team, but that’s what cheerleading boils down to.

What organization has published that?

Any NFL cheerleading team. It’s very direct. They sign contracts saying they will weigh a certain amount and not change their hair, etc.

And the contract says they will “dress and dance provocatively to attract male attention in the audience”? Interesting contractual language.

And they’re keeping their weight down, sticking their asses out, and wearing their hair down during their “sport” for what reason????

Watch the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders show on CMT. It might not be in a contract, but the coaches are 100 percent clear what they are doing and who it’s for.

Ahhh. Now you’re making more sense. It’s not “an actual stated purpose” nor is it “direct”. Man there are some ugly jealous women on this board. We get it, you cannot and never could be a cheerleader.

[Anonymous]

My son who is in HS said that he has always wanted to sleep with cheerleaders, with their consent of course. That's one of the many things on his list. I am sure almost all boys in HS want to sleep with cheerleaders if given a chance. Why would any parents want to put their daughter in that position?

Cheerleaders showing off their booties and panties in front of HS boys is a bad idea, IMHO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son who is in HS said that he has always wanted to sleep with cheerleaders, with their consent of course. That's one of the many things on his list. I am sure almost all boys in HS want to sleep with cheerleaders if given a chance. Why would any parents want to put their daughter in that position?

Ask him if he'd want to sleep with the same girls if they weren't cheerleaders. Guarantee you his answer will be YES.

It's not being a cheerleader that gets the boys wanting to have sex with them, it's being a hot girl.

As a parent, you can't put your daughter in a position where boys don't want to sleep with them unless you home-school them or put them in a convent or otherwise isolate them from all boys. (Which, I have to admit as the parent of a daughter myself, does have a certain appeal...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never let any family member do this. They might as well get a stripper pole in the house so she can practice.

Never.

Why?

God forbid female athletes be allowed to dress up and wear make up.

I always forget, in order to be taken seriously we can’t show any skin or look remotely “attractive”

So narrow minded

It's not a sport. Even if it were, no way. They are not athletes. They are girls buying into the dressing-like-whores-for-males mentality, with parents who support it.

The olympics consider it a sport.

And they aren’t athletes?! They aren’t working out in the gym every day of the week tumbling and working on stunts, dance and choreography?

Please. Just because it’s a sport with a dress code that involves make up and clothing that’s considered “cute” doesn’t make them any less talented.

The same IOC that voted to include synchronized swimming as sport? At least they will no longer be hands down the dumbest event at the Olympics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry OP I agree that cheerleading does seem a bit low class these days. Bad message to send your daughters - cheer for the boys and compete for their attention! Yuck.

+100

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If she really wants to do it, then you and she should talk about it as what it is: a gymnastic sport heavily spackled over with the performance of hyper-femininity. You should talk about what that signifies, and the potential for her to start thinking that she's "better" with the makeup and the sex appeal and for it to bleed into the rest of her life.

I'd be fine with a girl who got it, and did it as a kind of drag because that's what the sport requires (like stage makeup). I would not be fine with it if it changed her way of interacting with the world outside the sport in problematic ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son who is in HS said that he has always wanted to sleep with cheerleaders, with their consent of course. That's one of the many things on his list. I am sure almost all boys in HS want to sleep with cheerleaders if given a chance. Why would any parents want to put their daughter in that position?

Cheerleaders showing off their booties and panties in front of HS boys is a bad idea, IMHO.

Is your son a teenager living in the ‘50s?

[Anonymous]

Hilarious thread.
Bunch of ugly 40+ women, who were even uglier at 16 years old. Awe... was The head cheerleader mean to you in the cafeteria?
Get over it.