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Atzucat
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posted: 2020-03-09 20:34:38 (ID: 100147240) Report Abuse |
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Yesterday it was International Women's Day and I was wondering about the role of women on the NFL in the 21st century. The announcement of season 38 has helped me about that, to be honest.
Is it acceptable that there are still female with light clothes cheerleading in this sport? If their function is purely animating (predicting the typical response of their defenders) ... why are there no chearleading teams with 50-50 men and women? Do they cheer better with a good cleavage and a good ass? |
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| posted: 2020-03-09 20:58:47 (ID: 100147242) Report Abuse | |
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It would be viewed as discriminatory to give jobs that are traditionally performed by women to men?
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Kanar
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posted: 2020-03-09 21:18:58 (ID: 100147244) Report Abuse |
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Tough topic. Forbidding those women to perform in an outfit they chose wouldn't be discrimination as well? I like to believe they are free to decide this path and therefore they know that the uniform is quite short.
Also it was not a 50/50 cheerleading team, I saw at a CU game a guy performing with the girls. |
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| posted: 2020-03-10 04:59:15 (ID: 100147260) Report Abuse | |
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FYI...the Los Angeles Rams also have male cheerleaders now too...for several years. Equality is here!
Rams Male Cheerleaders to perform at Super Bowl! Steve SD Blitz |
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| posted: 2020-03-10 07:07:11 (ID: 100147263) Report Abuse | |
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Honestly I never understood the motivation of a girl/woman to perform as cheerleader.
There is a bunch of guys playing football and then you decide to cheer for them in short uniforms? Instead of playing some sport of your own, regardless the sport including football? Image to flip the sex and take some other sport played by women, like Softball or Netball. Now imagine you as man go those clubs and say, he I'm interested in your sport and what can I do here and all you are offered is cheerleader during the games. Well, my respond would be clear. And as a spectator I don't like cheerleaders as well, because I'm more anoyed by them then I'm happy to see them. Aren't there clubs who did scratch their cheerleader squad completely? This or equal squads. |
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| posted: 2020-03-10 16:24:47 (ID: 100147277) Report Abuse | |
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Some NFL teams don't have cheerleaders...for example the Pittsburgh Steelers have never had them.
I think to understand cheer leading in America, you have to go back to high school and college sports 100 years ago. At the time, girls/women didn't really participate in sports, so this was their only real outlet to be part of the school/sports teams etc. It's grown and changed and over time, it's be become a really big deal in it's own right. Now they have cheering competitions that are independent of another sport (and broadcast on ESPN). Of course, in the mean time, girls/women's sports have also grown and there are more options for participation. Steve SD Blitz |
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| posted: 2020-03-10 17:53:37 (ID: 100147283) Report Abuse | |
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Just a sidenote: the Dresden Monarchs have youth teams, tackle teams...and cheerleaders. The cheerleader department is the biggest of the club, and it is of course mixed gender. If you talk to cheerleaders, they take it serious and talk about their sport. The time you call them pom pom chicks is over, and it is good that way.
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| posted: 2020-03-10 20:58:49 (ID: 100147297) Report Abuse | |
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So Dresden was in East Germany, right? You lived there then - - or that was before your time?
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| posted: 2020-03-11 13:58:33 (ID: 100147327) Report Abuse | |
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Solana_Steve wrote:
So Dresden was in East Germany, right? You lived there then - - or that was before your time? Steve SD Blitz I am still living here. And yes, Eastern germany, former GDR. We are much more experienced with walls as a certain person in the US is  |
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Atzucat
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posted: 2020-03-11 20:44:44 (ID: 100147344) Report Abuse |
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It is unfair to judge past behaviors or attitudes with the norms and customs of the present. What our ancestors found commonplace today would be considered slavery, extreme discrimination against women, or child exploitation.
But what is not right, and even denunciable, is to want to keep customs of the past that today have no place in our society. We can put all the excuses we want, at the end that's a sport in itself, that begins to introduce men in it (although very slowly), etc, etc ... but using women, certain types of women and dressed in a certain way, in NFL games in the middle of the 21st century is not, and should not be, in any way acceptable. |
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