Generally, I do agree that encouraging our daughters towards intellectuality and self-worth, away from degenrated promisciousity is what has to be done. However, perhaps because cheerleading is so unfamiliar to me, I do not regard cheerleading as one of the latter. To me cheerleading is nothing but a style of dancing and if the gurl likes dancing, then let her dance. Just because you do some dancing on your spare time as a child, it does not mean you cannot become a doctor or whatever. Furthermore, girls - naturally - like to put focus on their appearence because that's how they are programmed. "Preening and adornment" is female nature lol. I think it is fairly exaggerated to claim that just because a girl does some cheerleading in high school she'll have severe troubles finding a partner.
Good for her. Good for you. I tell you what though, unless she went to an all-girls school, you can bet some of the dudes in the "high-IQ clubs" did nothing but think about the girl sitting infront of them. Chemistry=objectification too? Well obviously not. But, I feel only a zealous Victorian would call dancing/gymnastics/female sports "promiscious acts that turn you into a sex toy." To be fair, anything a girl does can be "sexy" to a high school-boy. So, the best solution then would be to have sex-segregated schools.
Frankly, I think there is more than a grain of truth to "high school films," at least from my viewpoint. I recall a distinct high school hierarchy that existed based pretty much how you see portrayed in films, although of course, real life is much more nuanced than a Hollywood teen sex comedy.
Cheer leading is as wholesome a sport and activity as there is in USA campuses. An utterly ridiculous comment especially since so many of the schools than ban cheer leading are actually right wing.
My daughter won 86,000 dollars in scholarship money. She couldn't use all of it but her college tuition is paid for. She was never a cheerleader.
Sports such as cheer leading, dance line, gymnastics, synchronized swimming are FAR more popular among girls and women, not among men and boys.
It exists, but not at the level in the teen comedies. There really isn't competition between the popular and unpopular kids, except in the minds of the unpopular kids. I say this as among the most popular of the unpopular kids at my high school (many years ago).
they have them in women's beach volleyball tournaments - again, a sport more popular among women than men
1. Cheerleading isn't as sexualized as you think. Bring It On isn't American cheerleading. (I assume, as I didn't watch the movie based on the trashy looking trailers.) 2. Cheerleaders use the "sport" more than the cheerleaders are used. It showcases their gymnastics abilities and they use it as a boost for their popularity. 3. It is an extra chance for a scholarship that guys don't have. I couldn't care less if it were banned, but you haven't given a reason to do so.
I wouldn't be opposed to such a thing. I think the kids would be more productive in a strictly learning environment where they aren't distracted by the opposite sex.
Isn't this what thebLiberals want anyways? Exactly. Teenagers are hormonal gooftards who pay more attention to the girl/boy sitting infront of them than they pay attention to the teachers. I too am sure such an action would raise productivity, but I was quite sarcastic when I said it.
That is a very immature point of view, when I was young, I noticed how females from the youngest to the oldest liked when males would compliment them on their appearance, and girls would intentionally show off.
It is not the right pushing for bathrooms for made-up genders, women exclusive seminars at college, seperate bath times at public pools, gender-segregated zones for audiences at concerts etc etc, now is it?
