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Japan schools move to protect cheerleaders from upskirting at sporting events
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but cheerleading is ALL about sexualizing young girls and women. Maybe get rid of it altogether.
Edit: Since this proved to be a popular opinion, let me get on my soap box. Not only does cheerleading unnecessarily sexualize girls, it's also the most dangerous sport for female athletes. There's really no reason for it, IMO.
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It has always struck me as odd that people surprisedpikachuface.jpg whenever something inherently highly sexual is... checks notes sexualized by spectators.
I'm with you. Either educate, own it, and lean into it, or get rid of it.
It's sexualized, but not sexual. Like beauty pageants.
Usually when kids do a sexualized thing, it's "supposed" to be cute and not sexual. "Haha, kids doing the adult things! Adorable." Or if it takes skill, "wow, so great for a kid. She'll be ready when she tries out as an adult".
But then the creeps come along and sexualize the kids doing a "cute" thing.
And it happens every time. By now, it should be expected; surprising to no one.
It doesn't mean we have to stop those things, unless we decide that we don't want adult cheerleaders or adult beauty pageants. I'm okay with that personally, but I get that it's an important cultural thing for a lot of people.
If we want these things for adults, then we need to let children do them, because cheerleading (in particular) is a sport, and the best adults are often the ones who practiced as children. Same as with sports.
I don't know how we keep those cultural activities and also stop the sexualization. Banning certain outfits or articles of clothing to certain age groups or during certain activities feels wrong, but not quite as wrong as condoning pedophilia...which is what a lot of children's beauty pageants and cheerleading clearly ends up being, even if unintentionally.
Yeah, nothing sexual about those adolescent girls, nothing at all. Christ, was nobody here ever a teenager?
I was generally referring to children, not just minors. There are creeps who love the kinds of beauty pageants that Honey Boo Boo was in as a child.
But yes, you're absolutely right. We should expect that there are going to be some people who are attracted to post-pubescent minors, and there are going to be some creeps among those people who will make everything worse for everyone.
I feel like child beauty pageants are especially disgusting, to be honest. I can't imagine them being anything but harmful to the children participating in them, especially when forced to by parents who just want to feed their own ego.
I definitely agree. I think beauty pageants are pretty disgusting, but child beauty pageants cross several terrible lines for me.
But it's a cultural thing. I'm not an expert, so I don't want to necessarily shame it unless I know that it's inherently harmful to children (and can't be modified to be no more harmful than forcing a kid to join a club they hate).
I mean there is quite a bit of athletics involved, it's not exclusively female, and I don't think it's more sexualized than just...dancing. Also high school and college cheerleading is pretty different than the cheerleading in pro sports.
Sure, but the skirts and skimpy tops are unnecessary. Though, if you de-sexified the outfits i guarantee interest would drop.
-50% cheer & +25% leading
But then how am I going to sexualize them /s
The duality of man. In another post about this news there was someone saying that it's a silly thing to be concerned about. But I agree, it should be discontinued, though at least this makes it somewhat less offensive.