Okay, I know I'll be called a prude, but I say good for Texas on this one. It sends kind of a mixed message to tell kids to abstain from pre-marital sex and then encourage them to dance like strippers in front on all the drooling old men in the stands. I know I'm a party pooper.
:-(
I told my daughter she was forbidden to become a cheer-leader.
I'm no prude, but that sort of thing is for adults as far as I am concerned.
Sheesh, am I the only one? Where's the heavy-handed pseudo-fascist religious right the liberals gripe about all the time? I'm feeling kind on lonely here.
:-)
Prude. :-)
I won't call you a prude, but I'd wager that you have one or more daughters. I do, and I understand the thinking behind this, but the notion that this can be legislated is kind of silly.
Reading the regulations would be like reading Penthouse letters.
Rule 1: Shaking your breasts is OK if and only if the movement is linear (up/down, left/right), circular shaking is strictly prohibited.
Rule 2: Bending over at an angle of greater than 30 degrees while shaking your a$$ is strictly prohibited.
Rule 3: Simulated autoeroticism is strictly prohibited.
You know, I'm having a little too much fun with these rules...
On behalf of the drooling old men, it is rough on us too.
After watching a middle aged referee check out the tush of a 12 year old (middle school) cheerleader, the sweet young things do not have to shake anything in any kind of suggestive way to get the kind of attention you're talking about.
IMO, parents at the school district level should be the ones to put a stop or allow whatever is within "community standards", rather than having state legislation about this.
I agree with you completely. Good for Texas, I hope Oklahoma follows suit. Let me say in advance, which you probably already know, get ready for the bashing and trashing coming your way.
Disclaimer: to anyone reading this, this is only my opinion. If you disagree, please do so with a civil tongue.
Not to mention the drooling teenage boys.
What happened to learning CHEERS? I guess it was the advent of the 'cheerleaders' for the professional sports teams, who were nothing but 'modern dance' troupes, that eventually filtered down to the high schools. I can't stand the new types of routines the cheerleaders are doing, but that's what they're taught when they go to cheerleading camp. Schools all over this country could put a stop to it by telling the camps that they won't send their cheerleaders to that camp if they're teaching them the raunchy dance steps.
Money talks.