Cheerleaders. Loud cheerleaders. Annoying, loud cheerleaders. Skimpy, annoying, loud, cheerleaders.
I went to the football game last Saturday and found myself utterly annoyed by the cheerleaders.
As soon as I saw them I was like, “Oh my God.”
I thought to myself, “What the hell are they wearing.”
Then I answered my own question, “Nothing.”
You would think that as the years pass by cheerleaders would get better at, well, cheerleading, but no.
Instead, they are getting better at explicitly showing off their body and hardly doing any cheerleading, if any at all.
It’s baffling when you go to a football game, or any game for that matter, and find yourself stopping dead on your tracks with jaws wide open over something that has nothing to do with the game at all.
Don’t get me wrong.
I have nothing against the cheerleaders.
Hell, I wanted to try out for cheerleading.
I was the captain of my drill and cheerleading squad a few years ago.
It’s the way they display themselves that truly disturbs me.
Small skirts and short shirts that could easily be mistaken for bras with added long sleeves is what they wear.
Some of the women had spandex shorts longer than the actual skirt.
The whole point of the under shorts is for them to be kept under the skirt, not on top of it.
And the shirts? Come on, really?
I don’t even think they should be called shirts.
There should be a term for something as revealing as that.
The closest thing I could think of really is: a bra.
Some of the other women would raise their arms to cheer and would show the lower portion of their bra.
We don’t need to see that.
Most people don’t go to football games to watch a whole bunch of half-naked cheerleaders.
Seriously, what’s the point? What’s their point?
What are they trying to prove? That they are attractive?
What are they trying to achieve out of wearing something like that?
What are they trying to get out of wearing pretty much nothing?
If they wanted to show off their bodies to more than half of the world, they might as well be strippers.
Then at least they would be doing what they want to do and be getting paid for it.
The cheerleaders would be getting something for wearing nothing.
As she was passing by me, I heard one of the cheerleaders say, “My skirt is not short enough.”
I think from that point on I was just disgusted.
Hey, if you’ve got a nice body, show it off.
Just don’t display yourself in the wrong way.
Don’t come off as an easy, skimpy cheerleader.
I told my friend what I had heard and he said, “Yeah. I agree with them.”
Then he laughed.
I guess that’s what they are looking for.
They want attention from guys, or any attention at all.
Maybe they get satisfaction out of knowing or thinking that guys actually find them appealing.
Honestly, if you feel you need to show off your legs and stomach to feel comforted, then you really have reached a low level of self-esteem.
Don’t be so damn insecure.
Don’t think you need to show your body off to get noticed or get any sort of respect.
Respect yourself and give yourself some real value.
If you’re a cheerleader, cheer your butt off, but don’t show your butt off.
Because seriously, by wearing what you are wearing, you are just asking to get laid.
Cheerleaders or strippers, you decide
Published: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Updated: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 17:09
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Michael Oh
45 comments
these uniforms look great! Some of these girls have what it takes to take to pro cheerleading! your so called opinion really puts you on blast it sounds like your crying out for help! A bit of advice instead of spending your time writting for the school paper why don't you seek the professionally help you so despratelly needed these girls have given up valuable hours of practice to support their college and rally the crowd. I,m sure your mother must be proud knowing she raised a daughter with no self esteem, so you feel the need to put these girls down. I wonder what your opinion would be like if you had a chance of making the team. I hope to met you at future games I would love to hear you talking about my beautiful daughter in such a demeaning way. Seriously think about my advice I know a place that offers free counsling for shallow minded people like you. Get a life,we do not need your opinion!
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and especially LETICIA!Every single one of you sound very ignorant & just plain out stupid.
All of you are praising Elieth for having "the balls" to say what she did, but what about the brave cheerleaders that went out wearing what they were wearing in front of everyone that was at the game??? That takes plenty of courage. Elieth said they are insecure???? Well obviously not! Their uniform is exactly that, A UNIFORM! they should not be judged by what they are wearing or not wearing. i personally didn't find anything wrong with the way they looked. I also enjoyed watching them on Saturday at the game. For them to be compared to stippers is just slander. I seriously would not call this an opinion column, it goes way further than that. I have heard people talk about this article around campus and almost everyone i have spoken to about it completely disagreeS with it. It is one thing to state an opinion, it is another thing to just be plain mean and that is what this article was...MEAN! I agree with everything that Michelle wrote in her comment. Elieth, sweetheart, if you want a career in journalism, start doing research about what you are going to write about next. If you want to talk about how little their uniforms are, take a look around. All you ave to do is simply click onto the internet. Look up strippers, then, look up cheerleaders. You will see that there is a huge difference. I really hope that something is going to be done about this. The publisher of the article should have never had it approved. Niether of them should do any work for Talon Marks.
There are way more imortant things to talk about other than the cheerleaders. Leave them alone.
Maybe Elieth tried out and didn't make it.
A lot of people say that you are jealous of what you can't have.
Well Elieth... there's always next year! haha!
First of let me just say, before you try to spell check someone else, LEARN HOW TO SPELL YOURSELF.
Secondly i personally enjoyed watching the cheerleaders perform.Those girls went out there and did what THEY like to do, becasue THEY enjoy it! who are you to call them names and why are you so concerned with there personal lifes.
Everyone is making such a big deal of the cheerleaders personal life. GET OVER THEM.
Seriously how can you possibly judge them on appearance. Do you know anyone of them? Do you know where they came from or past struggles they have been through?NO, YOU DONT. the cerritos cheer girls never did anything to disrepect either you two....just shows how you were brought up!.Not only that but seriously GROW UP AND WORRY ABOUT YOUR FUTURE NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S!!!!!
In that ANNOYING AND HORRIBLY WRITTEN ARTICLE (NO WONDER YOUR IN CHARGE OF THE OPINION PART OF THE PAPER) you said that the girls were inscure? HAHAHA. That has got to be the funniest thing i heard all day. Its not easy to get up in front of a crowd of people and cheer. HELLO?! Sorry to state the obvious but i guess we have some slow readers here!
Another thing, how they displayed themselves? Can you get anymore dumber???
THE BASIC'S OF CHEERLEADING 101:
1.SMILE
2.SMILE
3.IF YOU FEEL STUPID YOUR DOING IT RIGHT!
Leave the way they dance and the way the present them selves up to them, i think its so funny how someone can write a whole article about them. The cheerleaders have come along way, there doing new things. NEW STUNTS, BETTER TUMBLING, NEW DANCES. No one is ever going to be satisfied with cheerleaders because of all the degrading. But those girls do what they like for themselves. END OF STORY. Gosh i feel like were back in high school again. Everyone has a finger to point and no one can just accept people for who they are, and really take the chance to get to know them. GO TO THERE PRACTICE AND YOU TRY TO DO WHAT THEY DO. YOU PUT ON A UNIFORM. AND TO THE WRITER,,,YOUR WRITING IS GHETTO!
OO and yes you should apologize to both the coach and girls.The next article you write try to be more open minded to others feelings,likes and dislikes. and if you have so much hate for the cheerleaders, thats to bad.
YOUR NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE A CHEERLEADER ANYWAYS,,ALOT OF THEM ARE WAY PRETTIER THAN THAT "Elieth" GIRL.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY MY OPINION! PEACE OUT!
and no if everyone is wondering ...i don't know elieth. but i respect her for being the first to truly speak her mind and not be afraid let alone beat around the bush about the skanky cheerleaders. ALL THE POWER TO ELIETH'S BALLS!!!! i bow to you my friend...:) you can count on me to kick any other asses if you'd like. i'll e-mail you my number. oh and this one guy said to me that "elieth's probably mad 'cause she aint' got the body to show off." you know what? HELL NO!!!! you're effin wrong. this chick was interviewing my friend from the water polo team and you know what? ELIET'HS GOT A HELLA FINE BODY! she's got a rockin booty to go along with the balls and the "i don't give a f**k" attitude other girls are jealous about 'cause they can't pull it off. you got a good head on your shoulders elieth. you're doing what a reporter is supposed to do. to all the haters out there..."QUIT HATTIN ON WHAT YOU CAN'T HANDLE" if you can't handle a damn good article over an opinion that's different to yours....SUCK IT UP!!! grow some balls for god's sake...but even then you couldn't have as much or as big as the almighty elieth.
well that's it...for now....i'm pretty sure many people are going to talk s**t about this. oh well. shows how much of little weiners you are 'cause you cant handle an outspoken and brave person.
laters my peeps!!!
oh and elieth...... because of you i'm now damn glad to be a cerritos college student. the world needs people like you to tell it like it is. regardless whether other people agree. i'm glad there's at least one person on this campus that's not aliar.. with writing like this....you're goiong to make it far. screw people. if they don't agree with you too bad. you ain't gotta please them. as long as you're honest about what you're saying and stick to your beliefs. i admire you. keep doing what you gotta go. keep your head up. smile.....