Originally Posted By ploeb909 Just wanted to give Everyone the heads up! Once again the Cheer/Spirit Leaders will be heading to the Convention Center I know they can get very excited and loud!! I just wanted to let everyone know so that if an 10,000. Cheerleaders standing in line over Spring Break is a determent......My experience is that Most of Schools and parents keep these kids in check-so hopefully this will remain the Norm. dates are March 29-April 2nd Cheerfully Yours!!!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones The cheerleader days are probably the most annoying times to visit the parks, worse than Bats Day and Gay Days put together.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I find them amusing and generally VERY excited about everything The only time I wished they weren't there was when a group decided that they needed to "pump us up" in line for Pirates. UGH! They are pretty easy to spot, you can easily walk the other way Who I found annoying were the out of control "Chorus Kids"during Candlelight. Thanks for the heads up pleob909 Very kind
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I find them amusing and generally VERY excited about everything " Right. The very reason to avoid them.
Originally Posted By TP2000 I was in Palm Springs last weekend, and there was a teenage cheerleader convention/competition. It was like the stuff they have in Anaheim, and it was really annoying. It wasn't so much that they are teenage girls roving in packs and overly-excited. It was that nowadays cheerleaders are tarted up in micro-mini skirts and an inch of heavy dark makeup. They all looked like painted whores, quite frankly, and none of them looked fresh or innocent or pleasant. The fact that they roved Palm Canyon Drive in packs the evening entirely self-absorbed and mildly obnoxious didn't help. But the physical appearance of American teenage cheerleaders in 2012 looks like a hooker convention just hit town. I would ask "Where are these girls mothers?", but I'm afraid to ask. The mothers have probably given up on their daughters being any use to society beyond the stripper pole that is in their near future, and the moms are back in the hotel loading up the paint gun for another round of eye makeup for their darling little ones. Amazing that they are allowed to go out in public like that, much less on stage to do a cheer routine for a football game that doesn't exist.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Amazing that they are allowed to go out in public like that, much less on stage to do a cheer routine for a football game that doesn't exist." Did you request that they vacate your lawn?
Originally Posted By TP2000 No, but when a particularly trashy gaggle of them were in the crosswalk as I was stopped at Palm Canyon and Arenas Drive, I almost honked at them and told them to go home and wash their faces. Does that count?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney By chance we were there last March during cheerleader weekend. It wasn't bad at all.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Does that count?" Not if it was "almost". You need follow through. And a fist shake wouldn't hurt.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "I was in Palm Springs last weekend, and there was a teenage cheerleader convention/competition. It was like the stuff they have in Anaheim, and it was really annoying. " The sport itself is abhorrent. It is a sport but they pretend that it's not so they don't have to pay to outfit the girls properly in safety gear. And if they had to outfit them in safety gear, well, there's goes the jailbait appeal. It's a sport with a ton of injuries per year. Statistically, the sport is riskier than football, and that's without the safety gear.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Gymnastics (which is the basis of cheerleading) also doesn't have safety gear, yet I don't think I've ever heard any complaints about that (and they wear even less clothing). Yes, it's dangerous, but there's an element of danger in every activity. From the people I've talked to, they're all very aware of the real dangers, and do what they can to be as safe as possible. As for the whorish makeup, there's something to be said for stage makeup. It's completely common in theater, where the back row can be 100' away from the stage. When you're 100 yards away from the audience, you need even more to make your facial features visible, which leads to looking like a clown up close. That said, you rarely (never?) see a stage actor/actress out in public with their stage makeup on; cheerleaders do it all the time.
Originally Posted By TP2000 The sad thing is, I think these girls perceive they are getting status for parading around in public (Palm Canyon Drive in downtown Palm Springs) made up like nearsighted hookers and wearing a micro-mini skirt and midriff baring skimpy top. The stupid thing is that there were multiple gaggles of them on Palm Canyon and Arenas Road. Arenas Road/Palm Canyon is where most of the gay bars in Palm Springs are, so I don't think the boys were looking their way. Sorry girls, wrong bar. But really, they couldn't look trashier, trampier, or more lower class if they tried. None of them looked innocent or fresh-faced like a 15 year old should. Just silly looking, but a bit sad too. I can't buy into the psycho-babble that cheerleading is a sport. That's just nonsense. It's just cheerleading, for people who are playing a sport. It's physical, certainly. And there are routines and things to practice. But it's not a sport. Call them astronauts if you want to, but those girls ain't going to the moon either.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "Gymnastics (which is the basis of cheerleading) also doesn't have safety gear, yet I don't think I've ever heard any complaints about that (and they wear even less clothing)." If this thread was about gymnastics I would have mentioned it instead.
Originally Posted By ploeb909 Wow!! Strong opinions here. When I posted that heads up, it was to inform. I did not however think that the girls would be lumped into being Whores-Streetwalkers and my favorite inappropriate comment "strippers on poles". Who is to say what these girls believe, and maybe they "aint" going to the moon. But, believe it or not,alot of these Athletes are heading to college in the Fall on partial "cheer" scholarships. And many on Academic Scholarships as well. Honestly though, I think its sad that Anyone would speak so disrespectfully about YOUNG girls the way some here have chosen to do.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<If this thread was about gymnastics I would have mentioned it instead.>> I thought it was about Curling. Talk about no safety gear.
