What about this...
So this week I had a hard time thinking about what I wanted to blog about. I was going to talk about Carmelo Anthony's absolutely stupid descision to star in the underground video called "Stop Snitching". The video is actually a threat made to people who would go to police to turn in drug dealers or gang members. Anyway, that's not what I am going to talk about right now.

In the NY Times there was an article about Cheerleading. In Texas they have approved a bill that would allow state education officials to prohibit "overtly sexually suggestive" cheerleading routines. You can read the full article here. I am not currently in the whole cheerleading scene, but it's not hard for me to imagine some cheer routines that blur the line between athletecism and exhibitionism. The article references MTV, the movie "Bring it On", and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders as major influences on the current state of big time cheerleading. They should have thrown in the movie Orange County for good measure.

Anyway...don't you think it's amazing that the government has to step in to help curb "exploitive" routines done by cheerleaders? Where are the parents, squad leaders, and coaches of these teams? Why aren't they looking out for the integrity of the girls in the first place? Our culture has such a warped sense of what a young persons sexuality should look like and how it should be used. When are "we" going to stop hyping girls sexuality and start valuing their person-hood? I really believe cheerleading can do that. Allison, my sister Beth, and my sister-in-law Mary-Kathryn all love(d) cheerleading at their respective (Christian) schools. They had longer skirts than the PS kids and their routines were a lot less suggestive, but they still had a great time. I guess capturing that kind of modesty is what this bill is attempting to do, but I sure wish it didn't have to come to that. posted by: J-Wild at: 10:40 AM -