Just saw the news where a six year old girl is dropped from the cheerleading team because her mother objected to the words in the cheer. Why!!!! would any adult and or "Coach" want a six year old girl to flant her body for an entire school? We get all up in arms about child abuse and pedophiles and yet open the door and teach our children that they are only validated by their body. We teach by our actions and the advertising media sexual propaganda and wonder why when a child lives through childhood and turns teenager or adult their minds are shut down and they think with their crotch and wonder why Prozac was invented. Can we hear our selves as a culture, Can we hear ourselves as individuals? Do we not know what we feed our minds and thoughts..... grows in our actions? When are we going to stand up and say Stop. When are we going to see beyond the sexual propaganda and get the message out that devaluing someone is wrong and some actions are Not appropriate, or acceptable. We train sexual predators and look surprised when they act on what they have learned. Yes each individual is responsible for their choices, but what responsability does the collective group have? Raging at our warped mental thinking and trying to justify our behavior I wonder what we are waiting for. Why do we drag our children into perverted places? We as a nation screamed at priest sexual abuse because the actions became personal. We can stick our heads in the sand all we want but the consequences of our choices will come back to haunt us, or those we say we love. When are we going to raise our minds and awareness out of the gutter and clean up our thinking?
there are plenty of people that are raising good kids that will do wonderful things in the future hopefully they wont impose there own values on the rest of the world...i dont give a flying fuck how many moms ruin there daughters lives with kiddie cheering...they cant and will NEVER get me to participate in there idiocy so fuck'em
You can't hide kids away, but you shouldn't put them on display. Cheerleading seems like a rite of passage in America, and ok maybe six is too young but isn't it a little off for all these forty year old dads going to their sons basketball game and then getting a hard on watching fifteen year old girl bend and twist in front of them? That happens, no one cares. If you go to a beach, you see little kids in bikini's, you see OAP's equally so. You just accept it. It's all about the context in which it is presented. Cheerleading doesn't have to be rude, does it? You don't have to wear short skirts? I thought it was just dancing, and everybody is entitled to do that I have a bigger issue with this beauty pageant stuff. I saw a documentary on TV about it here in the UK, it's utterly sick. That's taking away a child's youth and innocence.
If kids want to dance about with pompoms then so be it. What does that have to do with paedophilia? Except for the fact that they're kids having some fun? Even if it was sexualising children, sticking some lipstick on a 6 year old wont make normal adults into paedophiles. Predators are not "trained" and are not caused by society. Pushy parents have existed as far back as we have records on, unfortunately. Unsure what any of this has to do with body image and training kids that that's what matters, but that's another thing people talk about far too much, if you ask me. I hear SO much more of people saying "we're all being told to be anorexic!" than actual propaganda telling us to be anorexic. Blown way out of proportion. People need to stop listening to adverts and chill out. I've never really felt pressured to look a certain way, and I've been living in this oh so terrible western world with its media and cheerleaders for 22 years now.
The problem is not with children doing any of these things, it is that adults are placing their expectations on the children doing it. A child who likes to dance about and joins an activity is doing so for fun. A child who takes a hockey stick and plays is doing it for fun. Adults get involved and the expectation change and the competitive starts. They cease to become kids having fun and instead are performers for the adults. Every sport or activity that my kids have ever been involved in there have been parents who should be banned from attending. Shame really as the kids usually have to sign a code of conduct and so do the parents and yet the parents seem to have a difficult time with honouring it. When you view a child as a "thing" that makes you look good, you have already lost the battle.
I've seen a documentary on those things, it was frightening. A five year old should not have her life revolving around beauty pageants. I was at a carnival last month and there were children pole dancing, which I thought was a little off. I know that I wouldn't allow my children to be doing such things at a young age like that, but others seem to thing it's okay.
I would like to see sex-positive training in schools. Subliminal, vicarious sex labor (i.e., cheerleading) makes me constipated. Especially, when unsegregated from sport.
It is going to take a very large tragedy for our nation or even the world to come to an enlightenment about the way we are. Until people are forced to look at things in a different light and really analyze what we are really teaching our youth people will not because its much easier to just accept things the way they are and not question them, and us americans especially love the easy way out, so until something happens that forces us to question things nothing is going to change. I hate thinking this way but realistically i believe that it is the only way things are going to happen
