the teams who are actually good and serious who compete (like those fielded by austin cheer factory, as quoted in the article) don't do that kind of stuff anyway. they're pretty serious athletes who are doing fairly major gymnastics and stunts, and see most of the booty-shaking type stuff as cheesy and well below their talents (which they are). i think he's aiming at the stuff that goes on at football games, which can sometimes be (not always, but i have heard that a lot of it goes on in ultra-competitive texas schools) b-squads who are chosen for looks and are not coached or really supervised like the serious competition teams.
i know embarrassingly way too much about this subject...
Oh THANK GOD. I was freaking out wondering when they were going to end this heinous sexy cheerleading thing. It's a disgrace! Down with the sexy cheerleaders!
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quote: Originally posted by: Mia "Oh THANK GOD. I was freaking out wondering when they were going to end this heinous sexy cheerleading thing. It's a disgrace! Down with the sexy cheerleaders!"
Hehe...darn right it is! Those cheerleaders and their suggestive routines must be brought down.
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theotherjess: "brought down" sounds supiciously and troublingly like "breaking it down" and we wouldn't want to get caught on that slippery slope! bringing down the cheerleaders is a gateway to breaking it down in public. and we just can't be having that.
bumblebee: It would be like the temperance movement if we supressed the cheerleaders' right to "break it down". They would just "break it down" secretly at wild cheerleader parties. I'm sure this would indeed cause of public outbreak (haha, break, no pun intended) of "breaking it down". These lawmakers just can't win.
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