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Cheerleaders at girls games

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Ace, Jan 22, 2007.

  1. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Ace:

    The "rest" is everything off the field that girls have to deal with.

    Such as boys having a scoreboard and the girls not. Boys having their own practice field and girls not. Boys having a training staff and girls not. ... And yes, this happens a lot more than one would think.

    Boys having the school's support (i.e. cheerleaders/pep band, which are extracurriculars offered by the school, a public institution) and girls not: it absolutely falls under the same distinction.
     
  2. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    I agree. I remember the Doonesbury where B.D. thought he was meeting feminism halfway by support a woman's right to burn her bra.
     
  3. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Bull. The law is about opportunity, not outcome. Period. Courts that think they can legislate outcome are courts that are out of control.
     
  4. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    FWIW, this is incorrect.

    Cheerleading is an extracurricular activity offered by the school as a support squad for the teams. Cheerleaders are not on par with fans, because they represent the school.

    If the school only "supports" the male teams, and not the female teams, then you're denying the female teams equal opportunity.

    That's against the law. And that's discrimination.
     
  5. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I'm with you buck. I'm just being sarcastically sympathetic to old_tony. I may need to dial it up a notch.
     
  6. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    We've gotta get Webby to fix the sarcasm font. It hasn't been working lately.
     
  7. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Oh, Webby's done his good deed for the day. ;)
     
  8. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    I noticed that, but dare not start a thread.
    Like others I have never been at a place that didn't have cheerleaders for basketball games.
    In the states I have worked, it was usually doubleheaders, girls first, with boys following.
    In a couple of cases, the girls game didn't have cheerleaders, but that was because they all played basketball.
    As far as being a Title IX issue, it could probably be interpreted that way. Best advice is to try to make it equal for everybody.
    I can't believe no one has said "save the cheerleader, save the world."
    I'm very disappointed.
     
  9. John

    John Well-Known Member

    Anybody else noticed the trend of having the cheerleaders sit in the stands the whole game, except for the one timeout when they do a 30-second routine?

    When I was in high school, the cheerleaders never sat in the stands.
     
  10. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Well, in the same vein, I've definitely noticed the trend toward cheerleading being a matter of just "being there" for some participants, as opposed to getting emotionally involved in the proceedings.
     
  11. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Just being there, huh? He can relate:

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  12. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    The doubleheader I attended today had cheerleaders at the boys game and not the girls. They were makeup games though and were played at 3 and 4:30 p.m., so maybe that is why.
     
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