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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
How can you read that, and assuming it's true, not take a huge issue with it?
Jeeze.
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It’s likely a holdover of a recently outdated way of thinking.
Cheerleading in major league has certainly been sexualised, but that’s not the origin of the sport, nor do I believe any parent encourages their son or daughter to excel in cheerleading so they can find a career being fawned over by sexually repressed older men.
Cheerleading isn’t an implicitly sexual activity and, eventually, sexual objectification of these men and women will end. Hopefully more stories like this come to light and highlight even further how awful the sport was for a good amount of time. But it’s getting better, and as it does, views like corporatejay’s will fall further and further into obscurity.