Posted on 01/29/2019 5:12:06 AM PST by Kaslin
If I were to tell you that a growing group of killjoys wants to ban NFL cheerleading, would you guess that this group is on the political left or right?
Must be the right, right? They're the religious ones with all the sexual hang-ups.
Wrong.
They're on the left.
And what's their problem with cheerleading?
I'll let them speak for themselves.
In The Boston Globe, Margery Eagan, Globe columnist and co-host of NPR's "Boston Public Radio," wrote a column titled "It's time to say goodbye to the NFL cheerleaders." She described NFL cheerleading as "creepy and demeaning."
USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour came to the same conclusion: "The underlying premise of NFL cheerleaders is degrading. ... NFL cheerleaders need to go."
Chicago Tribune sports reporter Shannon Ryan wrote, "The league has shown only that it regards cheerleaders as pieces of sideline eye candy." To make her point, she asked, "why aren't there scantily dressed male cheerleaders and dance teams?"
Only the well-educated could ask such a stupid question -- because only the highly educated deny that, with few exceptions, the only people who would like to see scantily dressed male cheerleaders are gay men.
In USA Today, Yale Divinity School Director of Communications Tom Krattenmaker added a theological voice to the anti-cheerleader chorus. "It's time," he intoned, "to call this out for what it is: demeaning to women and an anachronism that ought to be beneath the male fans to whom this titillating eye candy is served." This sentence, and his whole piece, is what goes for deep thought on the left today. He doesn't explain how being an NFL cheerleader is "demeaning." He simply declares it so. Did he bother to interview any cheerleaders? I did, and the consensus among cheerleaders is that it is one of their greatest life experiences.
Jacie Scott, a black woman who retired from being a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in 2016, wrote in response to Nancy Armour: "I spent four years as a cheerleader in the NFL, and the experiences that each year brought helped shape me into the woman I am today. ... I saw countries I never imagined seeing. I made a positive impact in lives, young and old, and I did it all with 30-something incredible women. I wouldn't trade my time as a cheerleader for anything."
What is demeaning to cheerleaders is not cheerleading but people like Tom Krattenmaker, Shannon Ryan, Margery Eagan and Nancy Armour who have the conceit -- and meanness -- to label these women demeaned.
I interviewed a former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader, Nina Ahlin (now Noa Hami), on my radio show. When she entered my studio, I was struck by how attractive she was 20 years after retiring from cheerleading, and by her modest dress. Regarding her dress, she explained that soon after retiring as a cheerleader, she met an Orthodox Jewish man, fell in love, converted to Orthodox Judaism and married.
Apparently, her religious husband, a successful businessman, didn't find this woman's cheerleading background "demeaning." On the contrary, like the vast majority of men -- religious or secular -- he was delighted to be dating and ultimately marrying an NFL cheerleader. Good thing he didn't go to Yale Divinity School.
It was clear that even now, as an Orthodox Jew who dresses in the long skirts and long sleeves, she doesn't find cheerleading demeaning: She sent me a photo of herself from her cheerleader days.
As she wrote to me: "I can't imagine my life without having the experience I did as an NFL cheerleader. It was literally life changing for me. The friendships I made, the places we were able to go and the people we were able to meet can't be duplicated. ... The thought of that being taken away from young girls who dream of one day becoming a pro cheerleader scares me!"
Why do leftists have contempt for cheerleading and cheerleaders (who, after all, choose to be cheerleaders -- and for virtually no pay)?
A Vanity Fair piece on cheerleaders gave the game away: "The league profits from selling a retrograde notion of masculinity -- big, strong men, unafraid to take a hit, surrounded by enthusiastic, scantily clad women."
Or as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation article titled "Pro cheerleading 'should be abolished'" reported, former professional basketball player Mariah Burton Nelson said, "Cheerleading implies that women's proper role is to support men, smile at men and fulfill the sexual fantasies of males."
The left has contempt for masculinity and the male sexual nature that is part of it. The new emasculated man will not look at sexy women. And the new defeminized woman will not want to "support men," let alone appear sexy for them.
The left claims to be pro-choice. But it demands the abolition of NFL (and NBA) cheerleading without giving women a choice to be cheerleaders -- just as it never gave Miss America participants a choice when it abolished the Miss America swimsuit competition. Leftists believe they are morally superior people and, therefore, have the right to deprive anyone -- man or woman -- from choosing what the left disdains. The only woman's choice the left cares about is the choice to extinguish nascent human life.
Even if you have no interest in football or cheerleading, this should be your issue. We have to tell the left here, as in virtually every other area of life, and in the most forceful terms possible: Just leave us alone. Let us live our lives with our small joys. And grow up -- men like looking at women, and women like being looked at.
A world with NFL cheerleaders is far preferable to the world the left wants to create: a dystopia in which men and women are interchangeable.
Also read 1984 - see the references to the “Anti-Sex League”
if you ask me RomComs are way worse than simple cheerleading squads in college or high school. The RomComs do more in indoctrinating women on male oriented ‘how women should act”. They are going after cheerleaders and it’s silly. My guess is somebody is doing post grad work with a very sympathetic teacher.
a day that will go down in history
That.
Statistically, some of them are bound to be nice girls, but the costumes and routines are so skanky that you have to believe that’s the sort of woman most drawn to the gig. I’m not an NFL fan anyway. The SEC supplies all the football I need.
When looking back at Robin’s movies, I began reading Roger Ebert’s reviews of some. Even though I (and many others here as well) can certainly disagree greatly with the political views expressed by Roger in some of his movie reviews and elsewhere, he was dead on in his strong critiques some of Williams’ movies with seemingly the same theme over and over with the affable rebel fighting some reactionary, etc.
We both are.
Here’s the actual original quote:
Source - www.lectlaw.com/files/cur52.htm
The “Undeniable Truths” were part of an article he wrote for the Sacramento Union back in 1988. Here they are:
24. Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
I was incorrect in that the actual quote was “access to the mainstream of society” instead of “easier access to the mainstream of American life.”
“Half the country wants to be left alone.
The other half of the country wants to control everything you do and everything you say.”
To describe those who oppose the form of NFL cheerleading due to its sensual nature as having sexual hang-ups is a liberal tactic, for liberals actually promote sexual freedom. Their opposition to NFL cheerleading is duplicitous political virtue signaling, both supporting slut walks and topless women (which blames men for lusting) while protesting porno cheerleading due to its war against masculinity while wanting "scantily dressed male cheerleaders and dance teams."
Wrong
Wrong, true Christians maturely oppose it on sound moral grounds, for scantily-clad sexually beautiful women (a testament to special creation, as they did not evolve from fish) in public is sinful, shameful, and essentially pornographic and has no place in public view. Which beauty is only for her husband to fully behold in marriage, which provides the secure context for what is normally part of this sexual exposure, as an act of trust and vulnerability, which is sexual relations and children.
Public nakedness is presented as shameful in Scripture, (Genesis 3:7; Revelation 3:18) as enticing normal men to lust (not that we must), which signals an invitation to sexual relations, but which requires the man to repress it, since at least for now, most feel public sexual relations themselves are embarrassing. Proverbs warns, "Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids." (Proverbs 6:25) Holy Job attested,. "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" (Job 31:1) And 1 Timothy 2:9 commands, In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array."
No, this does not mean women must be dressed in a tent, and veils, and any beauty completely hidden. "Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured" (Genesis 29:17. KJV) yet which i am sure was perceivable without short skirts, cleavage or even pants.
In addition, a NFL game is often a family affair, and which teaches the young that dressing like a prostitute and (from the few glimpses I have seen) engaging in erotic dancing is acceptable public behavior. Fathers who would never let their daughters to prance around in public half naked like that yet have no problem letting their kids see (even married) women do so.
It is the Left that abhors sexual mores, and other realities resulting from the Fall, and reducing those who oppose erotic (if you are a normal male) cheerleading to being liberals, as if the most conservative wound not for truly moral reasons, is itself a form of liberalism.
I interviewed a former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader, Nina Ahlin (now Noa Hami), on my radio show. When she entered my studio, I was struck by how attractive she was 20 years after retiring from cheerleading, and by her modest dress. Regarding her dress, she explained that soon after retiring as a cheerleader, she met an Orthodox Jewish man, fell in love, converted to Orthodox Judaism and married. Apparently, her religious husband, a successful businessman, didn't find this woman's cheerleading background "demeaning." On the contrary, like the vast majority of men -- religious or secular -- he was delighted to be dating and ultimately marrying an NFL cheerleader.
If he found no problem with it, then you must think he would approve of her doing it now. Which is absurd. "Not having a problem" with one's past as defining what they presently simply does not necessarily equate to sanction of the past.
It was clear that even now, as an Orthodox Jew who dresses in the long skirts and long sleeves, she doesn't find cheerleading demeaning: She sent me a photo of herself from her cheerleader days.
. Good thing he didn't go to Yale Divinity School.
While Yale is liberal, I think your scorn of traditional Judaeo-Christian values in this regard is showing.
So she glories in what he faith disapproves of. More like a liberal.
A Vanity Fair piece on cheerleaders gave the game away: "The league profits from selling a retrograde notion of masculinity -- big, strong men, unafraid to take a hit, surrounded by enthusiastic, scantily clad women."
Strength and fearlessness (and protection of women as the weaker sex - as gold is to iron) are normal esteemed aspects of masculinity, which the Left deplores, and thus it deplores cheerleading for the wrong reasons, because it wants to feminize men.
The new emasculated man will not look at sexy women.
Meaning the new emasculated man is not attracted to sexy women, which is very much the opposite to men with normal testosterone (at least from what I have seen and experience).
The left has contempt for masculinity and the male sexual nature that is part of it.
Indeed. In essence they abhor Genesis 2, in which God made the women for the man as a helpmeet, as uniquely compatible and complimentary, sexually joined in marriage (while only condemning homosexual unions wherever they are manifestly dealt with), and with man being the leader, while also abhorring the next chapter, of the Fall or man and the constitutional changes that resulted, and laws thereof.
men like looking at women, and women like being looked at.
Yes, and they go together (in marriage) like toast and butter) however, the interior is what is of overriding importance. For Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 KJV)
However, by utterly ignoring the moral case for opposing public eroticism and relegating it to immoral anti-masculine ("masculinephobic?") liberals, then you are actually writing like a liberal while trying to oppose it.
To act like a real men means not being fearful of opposing what is immoral in the sight of God, whether promoted by a liberal or a conservative. Of course, while one cannot be a Christian without being a conservative, one can be a conservative of sorts without being a Christian.
Sadly. Once you throw out morals why even stop there?
One of the few women's sports not dominated by Sapphics.
I’m waiting for Rubio to weigh in...
Actually Kaslin argues as if something is wrong with you, like liberals do.
100% correct.
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I did not and will not click on tthe “bait,” by the grace of God, though I certainly would appreciate the beauty - too much. And neither should you or provide such, esp. if you are going to name the name of Christ and contend for it, as you so often have along with so many of the the rest on my ping list.
I love this line.
“men like looking at women, and women like being looked at.”
if you ask me RomComs are way worse than simple cheerleading squads in college or high school. The RomComs do more in indoctrinating women on male oriented ‘how women should act”.
The latest Hollywood fad I see is the girl grabbing the guy for a first kiss. Total #metoo PC indoctrinating fantasy, of course.
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