Legislators in Texas, famed for its Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, considered legislation to ban 'sexually suggestive' performances in schools.Okay, call me a raving loon, but this guy is suggesting that cheerleaders go back to the art of ballet? I mean, how far back do these guys want to go as far as the art of dance is concerned? All the article hints at is that they no longer want girls on the field getting the people in the stands all fired up because of their "sexually suggestive" routines.
The law would ban dance routines by school cheerleaders at sports events that one politician said was like something out of a strip club.
"Some of them are just downright vulgar, something you would see at an adult club or something," said Joe Deshotel, a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, which is considering the bill. "The problem is in the eye of the beholder, I guess."
One of the co-authors of the bill, Republican Corbin Van Arsdale, said many parents want restrictions because they go to Friday night games to see young men clashing on the football field, not girls shaking their behinds on the sidelines.
Supporters of the legislation say those kinds of excesses show why change is necessary. They want to take Texas back to simpler days, when drill teams performed traditional routines, wore patriotic clothing and longer skirts.
"I think we should look at going back to the old traditions, to the art of dance," said Representative Tommy Merritt, a Republican. "It doesn't have to be all bumpin' and grindin'," he declared.
You know, at this rate, they might as well ban wrestling. After all, who wants to watch nearly naked men roll around on the floor grabbing each other and trying to pin them for x-amount of time? And I don't mean just professional wrestling. I mean both sports.
While we are at it, we might as well ban beach volleyball. I mean, need I remind you of all the butt-slapping the female US volleyball team did during the Summer Olympics? And I don't mean just on the professional level either. I mean even casually during the summer vacation months. I mean, we all know that the guys watching the game are probably watching for the skin show.
And surfing? And swimming? They better have a wet-suit then or some kind of second-skin swimming suit, because some of the guys' speedos are hanging rather low and leave just close to nothing for my imagination.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
Honestly, now. Cheerleaders are suppose to be sexy. If they don't want them to be, then they might as well turn back to clock to the era when they didn't do anything but scream "LET'S GO BULLDOGS! LET'S GO!" and then clapped twice. And then, just for good measure, they throw in that letter-calling thing. I bet teenage girls with insecurities about their image and popularity would love to do that instead of dress up in short skirts doing flips and pelvic thrusts to the beat of some pop song. And if not them, I'm sure their parents wouldn't object.
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