Ugh the audio quality in the linked video is horrendous. Warning to anyone else about to watch that: turn your volume down.
Actually . . . yeah. Only, our school’s cheerleaders actually rehearsed, so no one ever complained to the administration.
So we’re just a bunch of prudes, eh?
:rolleyes:
You can be sexy and cute without looking like a total tramp. The dance team when I was in high school looked more like chorus girls from the 1930s-their most risque thing was the kickline-lot of Spankies exposed, but that was it… (And their uniforms were way cuter, too!) AND they could actually DANCE.
LAP DANCES at pep rallies? Please. If that makes me an old biddy and a stick in the mud, so be it. There’s pushing limits, and then there’s being completely inappropriate.
Be a lady in public and then a whore in the bedroom, then? Yeah, that sounds like progress. :rolleyes:
You don’t know much about men, do you?
Clearly its not, as they got a smackdown from the school administration over it.
Sure she could. She might get bounced from the team for it, or be subjected to some peer pressure, one of the things we’re supposed to be able to learn as a kid, is how to make tough choices.
Meaning you’ve never been a cheerleader or not exposed to the concept before?
If that’s how you want to characterize yourself.
In my day, we thought Madonna’s outfits made her look like a total tramp (“Lucky Star” era). They’re pretty damn tame in comparison to the things commonly sported by the bubble gum set these days, and were way more revealing than anything those girls were wearing.
Ours won a national championship or two, and they occassionally raised an eyebrow with some of the things they did. (Of course, they didn’t have to worry about their routines [good and bad] being plastered all over the internet for folks to gawk at.)
Those flappers! With their provocative skirts and short hair! And the drinking and the smoking! And some of them have been alone with the young men from the town! This country is going to be destroyed by such nonsense, I tell you!
In olden times, a glimpse of stocking, was looked upon, as something shocking…
Now, heaven knows… anything goes!
Just a modern version of the bake sale… they gotta do something to raise money for the uniforms. Hmmm. I wonder if they do private dances in the locker rooms, maybe actually in the lockers.
If they do them in the lockers, that might explain why they can’t dance for snuff, actually.
“Cachez ce sein que je ne saurais voir !” 
I frankly don’t see what the big deal is. Audience participation may be pushing it, but frankly, how much more immoral or provocative compared to the pep rally concept itself ?
Seriously - you’re taking the most beautiful girls in the school, dress them in sexy outfits and make them dance to entice the boys on the team to play harder. How does that not have a sexual subtext ? It’s not surprising that “banging the cheerleader” is so prevalent a fantasm in porn & the American male psyche. At least those girls are being (ineptly) honest about what’s asked ot them
I think most cheerleading routines are pretty provocative and this one looked boring at first, then the guys came in and lapdancing for guys in is a little far. The girls want to do it somewhere else, more power to them, but it’s wildly inappropriate for their coach (or whoever is in charge of cheerleaders) to encourage it and put it on public display.
Neither of these seemed particularly slutty to me… but maybe that’s because I’ve worked in a number of actual strip clubs and know what actual exotic dancing looks like. This looks pretty much like the stuff my HS dance squad did back at pep rallies in the late '80s. I don’t get the big deal. They didn’t “bump and grind” ON the guys, they vaguely danced near them. I really don’t get the outrage. Honestly, nothing in that video qualified as a “lap dance” IMO.
(Oh, and just for those Tucsonians in the thread: a shout out to my old club, TD’s East!)
As for empowerment, honestly? I never felt so empowered as when I was a dancer. Those girls seriously have the guys in the palm of their hand and manipulate them like little marionettes. If the guys think otherwise, they’re deluding themselves.
Lucretia by daylight & Lais at night, what’s wrong with that?
I don’t know what was more pathetic: the dancing, the dufuses in the chairs, or the idiotic screeching of whoever made the video. The whole thing is utterly embarrassing.
I’ve seen much hotter cheerleader routines that no one complained about.
I thought it was tame and the dancing lame.
I agree with everything here. I couldn’t even tell what song was playing.
Anyone who thinks there was lapdancing in that video has never seen a lapdance. I was more bothered by the lack of skill than by anything else (I’m at work with my comp muted).
Comp muted is exactly how you should watch that video. You can’t hear a single note of music, just a horrible screeching roaring crowd.
Yup, that’s why I did a lap dance at my last job interview. I felt oppressed to have to suppress my sexuality in front of my employer.
My high school did not have cheerleaders. None of the schools in the region did. I think it’s a very American thing, though I know it has spread. It’s not normalized enough where I’m from that we don’t question it, however. I accept that it’s something that I just don’t get, though.
Anyone who calls this a lap dance has clearly never actually seen a lap dance. Here’s a hint: In a real lap dance, you get closer than three feet away from the dude in the chair.
Chalk me up as another person who can’t see what all the fuss is about. I’ve seen racier cheerleading routines late night on ESPN2.
I hear there are whole Web sites for that sort of thing.