Does cheerleading still have a negative stereotype?

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Their skirts are the same lengths as the field hockey and tennis uniforms. They do not wear sweaters. Is their shell form fitting? Yes...as is a swimmers suit and what cyclists wear. Poms are used for visual effect in routines -- as flags are for color guard and costumes for dancers.

The difference: Field hockey and tennis players (and swimmers and cyclists) are playing an actual sport.

I never was a cheerleader. But they are physically fit and usually enjoy gymnastics and dance. If a DD is NOT a big girl I see nothing wrong with it.

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16:04 there is a phenom where the lax girls party like bros. More than cheerleaders. Crew has weight requirements at most schools. Only one position available for anyone less than 120 pounds.

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If a DD is NOT a big girl I see nothing wrong with it.

WTF?

[Anonymous]

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If a DD is NOT a big girl I see nothing wrong with it.

WTF?

Add another WTF from me. Anyway, I'd say the idea of retaining a harem of objectified girls to "inspire" male athletes is fundamentally messed up.

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Anonymous wrote:No way is my daughter going to stand on the sideline in a short skirt and sweater bouncing around saying cute little rhymes. Cheerleading may be "new" and "improved" and officially a sport, but at the end of the day, I've come home to my DH watching it on ESPN with handlotion and tissues.

Our skirts aren't short and we don't wear sweaters, hunny. Cute little rhymes are far from what we do. Its not our fault you can't give your DH what he wants so he turns to cheerleaders who are NOT like what people stereotype of them. Cheerleaders have more talent than you do in one finger nail sweetheart, so next time you don't make cheerleading, don't make your children suffer.
Cheerleader?

New poster who is wondering how she can blame a whole sport because her husband jacks off while watching it. Eeeeeew.

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Anonymous wrote:

If a DD is NOT a big girl I see nothing wrong with it.

WTF?

Add another WTF from me. Anyway, I'd say the idea of retaining a harem of objectified girls to "inspire" male athletes is fundamentally messed up.

I didn't mean BIG as fat. Harem?

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How did you mean "big", then?

Yes, harem. Some overstatement, sure, but I do think teams retain cheerleaders as their stable of in-house titillation objects.

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Just FYI, George W. Bush was a cheerleader ...before he went to Yale.

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Cheerleaders perform at girls games, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheerleaders perform at girls games, too.

Must be mostly for the benefit of the men/ boys in the audience.

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, George W. Bush was a cheerleader ...before he went to Yale.

Ann-Margret was a cheerleader....

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, George W. Bush was a cheerleader ...before he went to Yale.

Ann-Margret was a cheerleader....

Paula Abdul was too.....

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Here's what my dad told me in 1979 and I think it was an important lesson. He said I was welcome to play any sport I wanted but he would not allow me to stand on the sidelines and cheer for someone else. I hated him for it then, but looking back I think he was pretty forward thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a cheerleader and we shouldn't be stereotyped. That just sets a bad explain for your children because you're judging someone based on what everyone says.
Its stupid to steretype people, especially cheeleaders. Sooo, you screw you who say cheerleaders are a bunch of whores who either never go to college or go to community college. I was a cheerleader all the way through high school, now I go to a division 1 college and cheer. And then I will move on to law school, so don't be jealous cause you can't be one

I'm sorry, but do you actually WANT to be a lawyer, or are you just being a lawyer to prove you're intelligent because you were a cheerleader? WOW, YOU'RE MY FRIEND ALREADY.

(p.s. I was a cheerleader, too... so don't try to play the "you're just jealous" card on me. And, no, I'm defintely NOT at "community college")

I could've been a lawyer. I just decided to pursue other passions in life that don't make me LOOK as intelligent as you. Sorry?

"F-I-G-H-T" (I'm pursuing my B.A. in English with a 4.0, going to law school and I can spell FIGHT)

And as for cheerleading, the F-I-G-H-T example says it all... after 7 years of my life attached to the sport, I've come to the verdict that cheerleaders are, in fact, "football groupies" as much as you try to deny it.

Really ladies, do you want your daughters to spend the rest of their lives pathetically trying to defend their cheerelader stereotypes from high school? Or become productive, HAPPY members of society?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a cheerleader and we shouldn't be stereotyped. That just sets a bad explain for your children because you're judging someone based on what everyone says.
Its stupid to steretype people, especially cheeleaders. Sooo, you screw you who say cheerleaders are a bunch of whores who either never go to college or go to community college. I was a cheerleader all the way through high school, now I go to a division 1 college and cheer. And then I will move on to law school, so don't be jealous cause you can't be one

$50 bucks she's gotten used/gets used by a member of the football/basketball team during her cheerleading career (whether it be in high school/college) to do something naughty... at least once. $100 bucks she'll do something even naughtier to keep her job as a lawyer once a client finds out she was a cheerleader. (juuuust kidding... maybe) make your daddies proud, girls!!

welcome to the real world, babe. tough love.

<3 ~*former cheerleader*~
xOxO

p.s. dance looks soooo much more graceful and requires sooooo much more mental stamina than cheerleading.