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NBA Teams Are Slowly Eliminating All-Female Dance Squads. Dancers Say That's Sexist.
Time ^ | July 29, 2019 | Paige Skinner

Posted on 07/30/2019 12:24:04 PM PDT by C19fan

On May 15, an executive with the Sacramento Kings told 48 female contract employees on a conference call that the team would be “evolving” their dance squad, and the women’s contracts would end June 30.

The 48 women made up the official Kings Dancers, the elderly dance team The Classics, and the dance team for the G-League affiliate, the Stockton Kings. The Breakers, a break-dancing team made up of seven male dancers, were not on the call, nor were the co-ed entertainment teams: The Dunking Ushers, Drumline, 91Sticks, and the Sacramento Kings Street Team.

According to two women who were on the call, the executive told them that the Kings were moving in a “more inclusive” direction and would eliminate the three all-female teams, replacing the Kings Dancer and The Classics with a co-ed hip-hop team called the 916 Crew, and replacing the Stockton Kings dancers with a co-ed multi-discipline street team called 209 Hype. The women were encouraged to try out, but were not guaranteed a spot on the new teams—the same process required of them each season. One member of The Classics joked during the call, “I think I can hip, but I don’t think I can hop.”

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: feminism; metoo; nba
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To: Secret Agent Man
The female dancers were

Not Guilty!!


21 posted on 07/30/2019 12:41:09 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: C19fan

Ding
Ding
Ding, we have a winner !!!


22 posted on 07/30/2019 12:41:15 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: C19fan

Today’s Episode of “Leftists Ruin Everything!”


23 posted on 07/30/2019 12:42:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Well if I owned the Kings, I’d go with the cheerleaders from The Replacements.


24 posted on 07/30/2019 12:43:25 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They are adding men to the intra-game entertainment. What about adding women to the on court game time entertainment? And what about the other 50+ genders?</s>


25 posted on 07/30/2019 12:44:08 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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To: C19fan

The Seattle Seahawk’s changed the name of their long established “SeaGal’s” to SeaHawks Dancers this year. Sigh.


26 posted on 07/30/2019 12:49:07 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote, while it is still legal!)
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To: C19fan

Do women actually like the effeminate male cheerleaders they are going with? Traditional male cheerleaders (which were relatively rare) would lift up the girls and tended to be masculine in movement and fairly muscular, but the ones that these “woke” teams in various sports are going with are just as skinny, weak, and effeminate as the ladies!


27 posted on 07/30/2019 12:50:05 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: C19fan

All I know is Dunking Ushers sounds really cool.


28 posted on 07/30/2019 12:50:14 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: mbarker12474
The End is near.

And bye bye to the Edmonton Oilers Lubricants

29 posted on 07/30/2019 12:50:22 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote, while it is still legal!)
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To: max americana

That would be the question. Or one of them. Strange times are upon us ...


30 posted on 07/30/2019 12:52:55 PM PDT by NCMtnMama (Trying to keep my granddaughter out of a burqa.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
I would be all for college type cheer teams with the guys tossing the gals in the air, etc. Um, that is if I really gave two chits about the NBA. But hell, I tried to watch a game or two at the bar last year and there's just no interest. Couldn't do it...


31 posted on 07/30/2019 12:56:08 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: C19fan

God forbid... the all Tranny Dance Squad.

/Shudder


32 posted on 07/30/2019 12:57:58 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: max americana

NWO is more than happy to have us all be genetic dead-ends.

Some are “proud” of it.


33 posted on 07/30/2019 12:59:52 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
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To: Stravinsky
Traditional male cheerleaders (which were relatively rare) would lift up the girls

When I was in college, they would toss the girls fairly high … the male cheerleaders were regulars in the weight room. A couple of them were in my TKD club.

34 posted on 07/30/2019 1:00:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Stravinsky

Agree with your post in general, but the cheerleaders I knew in high school could toss each other up and make a pyramid three high and hold it for a full minute. Not skinny and weak in my opinion. I was a hippy, not cheerleader caliber.


35 posted on 07/30/2019 1:01:32 PM PDT by NCMtnMama (Trying to keep my granddaughter out of a burqa.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Its time to end that crap anyway, people just look at their bodies, not their minds. Its degrading.

Its enjoyable. So lets make life totally miserable so when we get old we WANT to die. Is that the plan? Because it is working.

36 posted on 07/30/2019 1:02:23 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan

I just voted myself out of a job.

37 posted on 07/30/2019 1:05:18 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: central_va

I believe that is indeed the plan, across the board. May they grow old in the world they are creating.


38 posted on 07/30/2019 1:11:52 PM PDT by NCMtnMama (Trying to keep my granddaughter out of a burqa.)
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To: HombreSecreto

The term “ Owner” is out, not PC. The terms male and female also on the way out. Harass them Harrass them make them relinquish the ball.


39 posted on 07/30/2019 1:14:51 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Yeah but the ‘family friendly’ part sounded like they just want good dancing all around. And younger people showing off their talents in a wholesome way as opposed to performances bordering on stripteasing(?)

Hopefully it doesn’t indicate what you are suggesting. That’d be awful.


40 posted on 07/30/2019 1:34:12 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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