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Why Is There a War on Cheerleaders?
Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2019 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 01/29/2019 5:12:06 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
"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."

Margery's still pissed she didn't make the squad in high school.

61 posted on 01/29/2019 6:11:54 AM PST by moovova
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62 posted on 01/29/2019 6:13:55 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Margery Eagan


Nancy Armour


Shannon Ryan

63 posted on 01/29/2019 6:14:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mewzilla

“Besides, it’s part of the team’s brand and is useful off the field, too.”

It’s part of team spirit. I have no qualms with how the cheerleaders dress. I also think that cheerleading is a bit of a misnomer. Most of the squads in the NFL are dance teams who not only cheer and dance at home games, but do things like community service, perform at other team related events and make public appearances to help raise money for charities.

I humbly offer up that many times I have seen a Cowboy cheerleader and thought, “Her, the two next to her, a hot tub, a frozen margarita machine, a tank of helium to suck up while reading any book by Al Franken would make for a great weekend.

Anyway, if you want sleaze, I recommend visiting one of the thousand beaches in the world, minus any beach in Iran.


64 posted on 01/29/2019 6:14:26 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" have turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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To: Kaslin
Cheerleaders serve a purpose: To distract fans at the stadium and keep them from figuring out that football is really pretty dull and has very little action in a 3+ hour game.

That's why you rarely see cheerleaders on TV. TV viewers have their own distractions from the monotony of football: TV commercials, instant replay, trips to the bathroom or kitchen, etc.

65 posted on 01/29/2019 6:15:19 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: SmokingJoe

Oh for Gods sake. Stop obfuscating. We are talking about the presentation. The rules of conduct might be strict but clearly they dress like sluts and dance like it. NFL and others are hypocrites if they make them do that while telling them to “behave themselves”


66 posted on 01/29/2019 6:15:30 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Kaslin

All part of the homosexual/lesbian agenda.


67 posted on 01/29/2019 6:17:35 AM PST by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“Who can see them for their cheer encouragement?”

I recently went to my first college game in decades. “Our” team had seven female cheerleaders and behind them, seven beefy guys to toss them into the air. (What I wouldn’t give for that gig!) Anyway, they cheered in front of the student section, where they should be, and rarely made the Jumbotron. The girls were adorable, and the guys looked clean-cut. Nothing whorish about it. Can’t say the same for the NFL.


68 posted on 01/29/2019 6:18:22 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Kaslin

If something is good, leftards hate it and want to destroy it. It is called hatred of the good for being the good.They are so unhappy inside, they can’t stand to see others enjoying themselves.


69 posted on 01/29/2019 6:18:24 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: mewzilla

Well I consider much of the cheerleaders attire to be bordering on bad taste, we need to be realistic here. It wouldn’t matter if they were dressed like nuns if men found them attractive. That’s all it would take for the leftist man haters.


70 posted on 01/29/2019 6:18:43 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Kaslin
men like looking at women, and women like being looked at.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

"What are you so aggravated about?"

"I spent over an hour putting on all of my make-up,
coordinating my pants and blouse and doing my hair.
And l had barely got out the front door when some strange guy harassed me!"

"Wow.  What did he do?"

"He noticed!"

71 posted on 01/29/2019 6:19:09 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Football is actually a great sport. It’s too long BECAUSE OF TV. A real game would only take about 1.5 hrs. But TV commercial demands draw it out.


72 posted on 01/29/2019 6:19:39 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

... If you tell someone to wear these clothes and to gyrate suggestively, you are demeaning. Period. Low class and immoral.

We have our share of numb nut, knuckle dragging Neanderthals on this site too...

From Kipling’s God’s of the Copybook headings

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”


73 posted on 01/29/2019 6:20:44 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: SmokingJoe

Mean, petty, miserable self-loathing vindictive control freaks want to ruin everything for normal people. Did I leave anything out?

The rhetoric is couched in pseudo-intellectual twaddle helpfully provided by the quacks now infesting the rarefied air of academia. It’s frigging cheerleading. What the hell is wrong with people? By that, I mean the normal people. Just point at them and laugh, tell them to get bent. There are so many issues to be concerned with in any society - cheerleading ain’t one of ‘em.

The nutbars will never, ever be satisfied, for every imagined grievance you surrender to, they have ten more. Always. It will never end.


74 posted on 01/29/2019 6:21:23 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: bk1000

Perhaps this is a smaller college?


75 posted on 01/29/2019 6:21:34 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Kaslin
Just leave us alone.

I would say that was the sentiment of almost every Confederate soldier in the Civil War. "They" can't, are incapable, of leaving us alone. F-ing with people is what "those people" do.

76 posted on 01/29/2019 6:22:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Kaslin
This is a silly movement. These weren't women from the accounting department who were forced to put on skimpy outfits and dance for men. They are professional dancers / models who WANT to be cheerleaders and work hard to get there.

But thanks to #metoo young attractive women who want to work as models or cheerleaders are told "no, that demeans you. Now go get a job waiting tables or maybe as a stripper if you still want to dance". I'm sure they're all thrilled that social activists care so much about them that they are willing to crush their dream.

77 posted on 01/29/2019 6:22:34 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: ClearCase_guy

“It is deeply immoral to try to control the lives of strangers just because you think you’re better than they are. But that’s the Left for ya!”

The best encapsulation I’ve ever seen of what it means to be a leftist — or Communist!


78 posted on 01/29/2019 6:22:40 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Never dated a cheerleader. But I did date a girl who had been a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy club. Oh, yeah.


79 posted on 01/29/2019 6:23:07 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Kaslin

If you watch a game on the TV set the broadcast doesn’t ever show the cheerleaders. Maybe a head shot once or twice a game.


80 posted on 01/29/2019 6:23:31 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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