AUSTIN, Texas - A bill approved by the state House to ban bawdy cheerleading routines apparently isn’t going anywhere in the Senate this year.
The legislation prohibits “overtly sexually suggestive” cheerleading routines at school events and gives the state education chief the authority to ask school districts to review performances. It does not define sexually suggestive.
The House approved the legislation May 3 and sent it to the Senate Education Committee, where it is expected to die.
“We have some very important work to do in the next two weeks, and that’s not one of them,” Republican state Sen. Florence Shapiro, who chairs the education committee, said Friday.
Democratic Rep. Al Edwards, the bill’s sponsor, has argued that sexually suggestive cheerleading exhibitions are a distraction that results in pregnancies, dropouts and the contraction of AIDS and herpes.
Shapiro said the problem needs to be handled by parents and school districts, not the Legislature.
But Edwards vowed to bring it up in the future.
“If there’s anybody who thinks there’s not a problem with the way our young folks are performing ... then they’ve been somewhere with their head in the sand,” he said.
seriously dont people have better things to do. how about working on the education system?
oh yeah because proving that sexy cheerleading "results in pregnancies, dropouts and the contraction of AIDS and herpes." is a more worthwhile investment of government money....
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I dont endorse cheerleading, but if you dont like the fact that they're pretty much selling themselves on the sidelines like a junkie selling food stamps outside of a wal-mart, then don't watch them. Don't go to the football games, don't go to the competitions. And for god's sake, dont rent Bring it On. Eventually they'll all just end up working as a diner waitress with lipstick on her teeth, or go crazy and shoot people, or get all dawled up just to go out and chain smoke while slouching over a bar telling stories about their glory days. Because they very well could do any of these things, or whatever else cheerleaders do when they for whatever reason retire from their craft.
Either way, things will just work themselves out naturally.
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there's such more bigger issues in america.. why deal with cheerleaders.... why not deal with the crime in streets....helping all those people like single mothers working 3 jobs to feed her kids and paying the bills.... why not concentrate more on charity funding and programs for kids to stay out of gangs and drugs...why waste money and time on such non-sense as cheerleading routines?....no they don't have their priorities in order....
Considering most cheerleading squads are all female, wouldn't it also result in rampant lesbianism? Besides, chicks can't get each other pregnant, silly rabbit.
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I remember when I was playing football, a member of the opposing team was returning a punt, as he raced down the sidelines I hit him and we both went out of bounds. Unfortunately we wiped out the entire cheerleading team save one or two girls.
The funny thing is that of all the people knocked down, the two biggest whiners were the two guys on the team. One girl who I knocked over (and outweighed by over 150 pounds) grimaced, got up, smiled, smacked my but and said, "nice hit". Cool chick if you ask me.
Sorry, this had nothing to do with the topic, just talkin about cheerleaders brought back some old memories.
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That reminds me of something. I don't watch America's Funniest Home Videos, but one time when I happened to check out the show they had a clip of a football player taking out an unsuspecting cheerleading "pyramid" to the tune of a bowling strike. Don't ask me why, but I was rolling for about five minutes.
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‘Sexy cheerleading bill’ appears dead in Texas
May 15th, 2005 08:46 PM
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