Why do cheerleaders rock?
Do you realize that Cheerleaders have more sports related injuries than all other school sports put together? Cheerleaders are most definitely athletes. But, is Cheerleading a sport? By law, NO.
Why? Because some feminists from the 70s thought it was good for women.
Should it be? By every Moral and Ethical standard as well as the Hippocratic Oath, apparently so!
First I would like to thank Penn and Teller's BullSh*t! show on Showtime for bringing this up. I thought I'd watch it to see what nonsense they threw out there, just a few minutes of some fun. What I saw horrified me. Not the beautiful, fit girls being athletic, but the horrors these children experience on a regular basis with out the support and safety standards required by sports.
Okay, they did what the needed to, for the 70s! But it needs to be updated because what these girls are doing now a days is so far beyond "dance" that they are dying, being paralyzed, permanently injured and traumatized on a regular basis.
The 1972 Title 9, the Minx" Bernice. A good idea, that needs to be updated. Do Title IX proponents think more about their image than cheerleaders safety?
What do The National Cheer Safety Foundation and Varsity Brands Incorporated have in common? Varisty Brands sells more cheerleading equipment than anyone else. They fund the NCSF [7/27/2010 - author retraction, the NCSF is not indicated as being funded by Varsity in this episode of Bullsh*t! Thanks to Tiffany for that clarification.].
I don't know, but something, seems just wrong here and our daughters and suffering for it.
The National Cheer Safety Foundation is not funded by nor affiliated with Varsity Brands Incorporated.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, I'm looking into that. I would assume Penn and Teller had a reason for saying what they said, but since you brought it up, I'd like a little more foundation than their word on it.
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