Cheerios!

Sweet Easter Bunny my head hurts like I'm a Trostkyist whose head has been split asunder by an ice-pick.
Damn clandestine operations. And course assignments.

With Malaysian politics dwindling in interest to the equivalent significance of tea leaves in an empty cup and with the current whiff of feminism prevalently embodied in the persona of a someone, I've decided to rant on cheerleading.

Cheerleading? Yes. It all came about I can't pin down when, but I remember wanting to write about it after coming home from my younger brother's sports day. It is, I find, rather disturbing seeing those young girls wheel about in attitude to the raucous yells of euphoric parents.
Visual aesthetics? Creepy.

To get one thing straight, cheerleading originates from The USA. Not saying all evil stems from there, oh no. Geert Wilders lives in Holland. To return, although cheerleading started as a means to cheer on a team and as an all-male activity (laughable, I know) it has evolved to become the most sexist, gender-stereotyping and female derisive thing I've ever had the displeasure of witnessing. At least I think so.

Scene from an atypical American football movie: Pep talk in the locker room. Outside the crowd get impatient. The cheerleading squad, all looking joyous and happy in those mini-skirt one piece thingys and Barbie doll make-up start flipping around, exciting the crowd. Football team runs on-field like a pack of angry, ravaged bulldogs.

My point is, cheerleading has evolved to become a woman-cheers-man phenomenon. Not just that, but women-in-skimpy-outfits-cheer-the atypical-jock.

Welcome to gender stereotyping. Why can't it be dudes cheering on a netball team?

So you say "But there are dudes on a cheerleading team." Do you see them shirtless? All they ever do is carry the girls, another stereotype. Surely girls are strong enough to lift one another?
And how many times have we thought male cheerleaders were kinda gay (or at least initially)?

So after all the feminism, the question of why we import an attitude (not a culture), and a sexist one at that, into our culture is beyond me. If I was in a womens action group I'd be sounding my whistle every time a girl did a backflip.

But doesn't everyone want to be a cheerleader?