Cornell does football right. A marching band of about a hundred, about 2 dozen very acrobatic cheerleaders--young women only, (nobody likes male cheerleaders) baton twirlers and 3 music conductors and TWO, count 'em TWO pirates with swords. I bet my reluctant sister-in-law A. a dollar, as she is a Yalie, and now I owe her. Maybe she will forget.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Cornell vs. Yale schmale
Cornell does football right. A marching band of about a hundred, about 2 dozen very acrobatic cheerleaders--young women only, (nobody likes male cheerleaders) baton twirlers and 3 music conductors and TWO, count 'em TWO pirates with swords. I bet my reluctant sister-in-law A. a dollar, as she is a Yalie, and now I owe her. Maybe she will forget.
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Who sez no one likes male cheerleaders?
I am a progressive and enlightened guy, plus I went to Bennington College, but I have one small blind spot. On the one hand, you see large, strong athletic male cheerleaders and you are impressed with their skill. You also note that when they hold young women aloft on the palm of their hand, that hand is uh, in a place that, well, young men, maybe you get my point. In pro football the cheerleaders are jokes: they wear little bikinis (even in Buffalo and Green Bay) and have, uh, very large pom poms which they shake. That is the extent of their duties, and I am not impressed. College cheerleaders, esp. here at Cornell I note, are gymnasts and acrobats and flip and fly and all the rest. Maybe it would be more feminist of me to think that guys should be there too, but, um you know, I would rather it was an all women squad. I believe further that women's soccer, field hockey and all the rest should have big handsome and athletic male cheerleaders, and I have tried to unpaint myslef out of a corner by saying that. Yes, I can say I believe in that idea strongly. It also sounds fair.
I don't recall my alma mater even having cheerleaders. I always assumed it was a 'murrican thing.
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