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'.
"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.