Slutty Cheerleaders

A cheerleader is as American as apple pie, and for that reason few Americans seem to consider that the sport is little more than the wholesale exploitation of women and girls.

The story begins in school, when the girls are groomed for exploitation and fitted with special custom designed and fitted slut outfits.  In the past schools were okay with their girls dressing slutty because hey, it's school pride right?

But what's interesting is that some schools are now beginning to wise up to the problem, for all the wrong reasons.  Instead of noting that competitive cheer-leading is dangerous and results in some 30,000 teen injuries per year, or that the whole concept of flipping around in slutty costumes while the men play a real sport is inherently sexist, what's happening in some schools is that the uniforms are deemed so slutty that they violate the dress code.

That's what recently happened in a school in California.  The same $300 slut costumes that were mandated by the school, were deemed so utterly inappropriate that girls could face suspension for wearing them in school.

Let me break that down for you.  The school designed their slutty cheerleader costumes to be worn by teenage girls.  These costumes cost $300, and were so completely inappropriate that the girls were only allowed to wear them when cheer-leading.  If they wore them inside the school they had to cover up with sweat pants.  And if they were caught just wearing the uniform, chosen by the school, they would be disciplined.

While I hate to rail against such a deep rooted American tradition, I think it's time America took a long hard look at the slutty teen cheerleaders and ask ourselves is this is really fair and reasonable to our youth.  What kind of message do we give to young girls when we create the desire in them to cavort semi naked in slut costumes in front of hundreds or thousands of people.  But then we tell them that dressing like that during any other time of the day is slutty and will result in their punishment?

The whole concept and execution is pretty disgusting.  It's sexist exploitation of teen girls on every level and it helps breed superficial behavior and sexist gender roles.  On top of all that tens of thousands of young women are being inured; some permanently.  And for what?  Some pointless men worshiping gymnastics in a slutty costume?  Where is the educational value in that?  Why is it necessary?  Are American sports so boring that the only way to keep an audience is to have semi naked girls jiggling around?

Just seems like bullshit to me.