F!ERCE
Cheer Parent
- Mar 23, 2010
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Ok I hear you but people keep throwing out the word "legitimize" our sport. Legitimize to who.. and once it is, will that make cheerleading any better or worse. Just because your a sport, the sport itself doesn't change. Cheerleading will always be cheerleading, its an activity that is highly athletic but is also performance based. Also if you have ever seen volleyball, swimming, dance, aerobic championships, or wrestling... those sports all wear "small" outfits. Sorry but wearing a uniform that covers your stomach isn't going to make someone respect us more or less.
Do you know the "My Boyfriend's Back" dance video that came out a few years back?
So much controversy surrounded that in the way of "these girls are SO talented!! ...BUT what are they wearing?!" People were so blinded by the outfits the girls were donning that even if they could see that the girls were talented, they though less of them because of their revealing outfits. I think that's pretty direct correlation...and runs parallel to what we're discussing here.
Volleyball players and wrestlers are certainly more clothed than Top Gun was at Worlds last year. By a long shot. And swimmers? They're actually...in a pool...it's required of them lol. I do think that people will respect what we do more if we can do it without bearing our bodies. We can agree to disagree, but I definitely think it will help cheerleading as a whole.