Posted on 05/05/2005 9:44:51 AM PDT by bigLusr
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -- Texas lawmakers sent a message to the state's high school cheerleaders Wednesday: no more booty-shaking at the game.
The state's House of Representatives voted 85-55 to approve a bill that would forbid sexy cheers and give the Texas Education Agency authority to punish schools that allow "overtly sexually suggestive" routines at football games and other events.
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With a mother like that the girl has no chance to learn morals at home. Unfortunately, laws don't do a good job of teaching morals either.
I sometimes watch the cheerleading competitions on ESPN. I am always impressed by the abilities of the cheerleaders, but on more than one occaision I have felt that the young girls were performing routines that were a little too risque.
I kept thinking who makes this up? The cheerleading coaches, who are usually other women? Do any of the girls object, or do they just go along because the others will ridicule them?
I personally think the state is not the place to be policing the routines. Stuff like this should have a standard, but it should be the high schools themselves that develop it. And raunchy routines should be disqualified from competition.
This is where the parents of other children are necessary. If the parents of the rest of the squad are losers, you pull your child out of the activity & are offered a teaching moment about character. Make sure you let the school administrator & every single school board member knows what you have done & why. After you have done this, other parents are empowered to do the same. Remain silent & do nothing, the Mommy moneymakers of the world will get their way more than they should.
ROFL!
She's pretty modest as it is.
I think you'll make a very good Daddy.
Half the time it's their parents who are pushing them to be cheerleaders in the first place.
I think it fullfills some old, broken dream of how THEY didn't get to be cheeerleaders.
Cheerleaders? Sexually suggestive? I just don't get it...
Thank you. Let's just hope it doesn't happen until I finish graduate school and get a full-time job (The possibility exists because I'm recently married, not because I'm a philanderer).
ROFL!
They have the hottest cheerleaders!
bttt
Absolutely. That was the first thing that came to mind when I heard about this.
Or addressing Texas' standing as the number one state in the nation in DWI deaths.
We're number one!
We're number one!
We're number one!
We're number one!
We're number one!
Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
Is it me or does that second one from the end look like she was held back a few years ? She's twice as tall as the rest of them.
"Following this logic, Elvis the Pelvis should have been banned in the 50s and 60s. And the movie Dirty Dancing should have been rated 'R'."
Elvis the Pelvis was censored in the 50s, and so was his brother Enos.
I didn't even know what was going on with cheerleading until my daughter rented "Bring it On."
IMO as a father, Bring it On was much lewder than Dirty Dancing (although Dirty Dancing was full of the Wrong Messages). They weren't just showing their bodies, which cheerleaders did even back when I was in HS. They were being sexually suggestive in a very explicit manner.
Yeah, yeah, there was suggestiveness in DD, but it didn't strike me as quite so crass.
They were using that exotic dancer "Look at my breasts" hand gesture, the old "Look how energetically I pump my mons veneris forward and backward; don'cha just know I'm a great lay?" move, the reverse butt thrust with with the old, over-the-shoulder, "Yeah, I'm really offering you my butt" leer, and so on.
I never saw women--in the case of Bring it On, young women pretending to be adolescent girls--moving like that and keeping their clothes on before.
I really don't think that sort of thing should be going on in public places like sporting events. Maybe legislation isn't the best way to bring it to a halt, but something should.
"Personally, I hate seeing young girls encouraged to emulate the sleaziest aspects of our culture. It is neither cute nor is it 'entertaining' ~ it is, simply put, degrading."
Yes, ma'am.
When I was in high school, referring to any portion of a girl's anatomy as a "money-maker" would have brought down the wrath of God upon your head. I *hate* that phrase. And I'm a guy.
I trust you have noticed the difference between male and female cheerleader apparel.
While no one would deny the athletic component of cheerleading you have to been blind not to notice that cheerleading is about attire is stimulating, sexual, sexist, or perhaps even misogynistic if you are from NOW.
When she said, "shake your money maker" she was just being accurate, if not politically correct. Her daughter’s uniform is a reflection of that fact and a manifestation of an attempt to exploit it.
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