We allowed our daughter to be a cheerleader because -
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Pity that. I have rather more respect for cheerleading teams that are essentially dance teams because there's quite a lot more skill involved. (Hockey cheerleaders for example -- the ones at my high school were the girls who were too tall or uncoordinated to make the football or basketball cheering teams. They did next to nothing except stand in the stands and lead chants. The football cheerleaders, on the other hand, actually had some skills.)
So, basically they stood completely still, occasionally clapping their hands and stomping their limbs.
The most disturbing thing in that whole thread comes earlier than this. A poster who goes by "Tiffany138" says, "...wear only skirts because God convicted me that pants are not for women."
Sandman: No, she has used the word "convicted" in the right context.
Yay, puritanical cheerleading! Maybe the cheerleaders chant Bible verses!
Evergreen
Mrs. Debbie is a dispicable hypocrite. In another thread she made it her point to vehemently oppose women being loud, boisterous or obnoxious, stating it was un ladylike and immodest. And here she is defending her daughter being a cheerleader because they did a lot of yelling, clapping their hands and stomping their feet. Contradict yourself much?
The poor thing probably yawned her head off at every game, too. I'm not a fan of sports myself, so I think that even regular cheerleading sounds fairly dull. But at least they get to move around, and get some excersize. And nobody has a fit if they feel like dancing, either.
I suspect that Mrs Debbie doesn't want any female anywhere in the world to do anything to attract Bro Randy's eye.
RE: IFB
IFB = Independent Fundamentalist Baptist; I think "independent" means each church is unaffiliated with other churches. Bro. Randy and Mrs. Debbie are what are often called "Landmark" Baptists. LBs believe a self-invented myth about tracing their church back to Jesus and being separate from Catholics and Catholic-derived Protestants. When a landmark Baptist says "Christian", they mean "Landmark Baptist"; they don't consider anyone else to be real Christians. LBs accept only the KJV Bible, which they cherry-pick and interpret literally when it suits their purpose. They are consistently bigoted and hateful toward almost everyone else - especially Roman Catholics - and are committed to pushing their beliefs into everyone else's faces.
I once met a guy who was an "old-fashioned" cheerleader, and his routine was actually quite fun to watch. Nothing dull about it, even though he wore clothes and didn't try to give the audience a hard-on with every breath he took.
IFB's are to fundies, what Hamburger U. is to McDonalds. They are the feeder farms for the brainwash factories like BJU, Oral Roberts, and Liberty.
The cheerleaders at my school would actually throw each other up into the air. While standing on a concrete floor. Even if they hadn't been practicing. [/qute]
My, that's a lot of thought put into something so trivial. Hey, as long as they are over fifteen and have clothes on, it's fine, it's no more revealing than the players in the field, sweatting and moving about.
@ shriekback
You mean the Bund Deutcher Mädel?
We allowed our daughter to be a cheerleader because -
I live in the UK and have no idea what IFB stands for.
"There was no dancing."
Kind of defeats the whole idea of cheerleading then...
"Culottes were worn."
Dunno what culottes are either, sorry my life was a bit sheltered... but by the tone of your message I assume they were large bulky shapeless objects to disguise the curves/gender/species of the wearer.
"Old fashioned cheerleading took place - yells and stomping of feet and clapping of hands.
So nobody would bother to watch then.
"Hand and foot movements wer crisp and precise - could not be mistaken for dancing."
Sorry to be pedantic but hand and foot movements ARE dancing.
@TW: "Dunno what culottes are either"
Knee-length, loose, short trousers. Like these...image
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