ArrantPariah wrote:
Actually, in North America, we have cheerleading
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXRWQa9tQLw[/youtube]
which seems strangely to be becoming a legitimate art form in its own right.
Traditionally, cheerleading is about providing a little bit of sexual tension at football and basketball games. For a lot of people, becoming a high school cheerleader seems to confer the highest status that a girl can possibly achieve. There is quite a LOT of competition to get in, and, for those that make it, quite a lot of strutting around the hallways in their cheerleader uniforms. It isn't "just for fun", like squaredancing or rumba dancing. Girls who are even slightly ugly or overweight need not apply. It all feeds our national frenzy of women and girls feeling bad about their appearance.
In small rural schools you will see cheerleaders that are more normal looking,plump and some not that attractive.
I did not like the fact the cheerleaders got to wear those short skirts on spirit day, but the rest of us couldn't even wear shorts.I'm sure it would have perked the athletes up if all the girls had on short skirts or shorts that day.Testosterone would have flooded the whole school.
But school work would have suffered,the guys wouldn't be able to keep their eyes on the books.And some teachers also.
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