Texas house passes bill to ban "sexy" cheerleading

[villager]

Unfortunately, this is not a joke, but further evidence of the right's ongoing sexual obsessions, translated into "legislation:"

Cheerleader bill passes House

By: Hermelinda Vargas

Cheerleaders are used to getting attention but nothing like the attention they'll get if the Senate follows the House's lead on a bill that would outlaw any move considered to be sexually suggestive or provocative.

"The bill would require ultimately that we stop exploiting our young girls," bill sponsor Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston.

Before the bill bill got to the House floor many members considered it a joke. Edwards even shared in some of the laughs just hours before the House passed the bill 65-56. But it turns out Edwards is serious.

"Some of this is a distraction and we see that as a result more of our young girls being pregnant in middle and high schools, dropping out of school, having babies, and contracting AIDS and herpes," Edwards said.

Opponents to the idea of legislating dance moves are also serious. Dead serious. "I don't know how this bill got to the floor. It's a stupid! and it's insulting. It's insulting to this body and insulting to the people of the state of Texas for us to be taking the time up here on this kind of horseplay," Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, said.

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http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=136577&SecID=2

[WI_DEM]

1. how about a bill which supports real education as much as the state of

Texas supports their high school football programs--which I understand is like a religion in the state.

[7th_Sephiroth]

10. yeah

i got into a fight with the captain of a texas highschool football team for trying to stop him from raping a girl, after i was arrested, the entire sherrifs department went billy club crazy on me cause i froke the QB's arm

[LynneSin]

2. And I wonder how many texan children went to bed hungry last night?

Glad to see Texas deals with the real issues burgeoning their state

[MissB]

3. Wasn't the sponsor a Democrat?

[villager]

5. True -- looks like it's this Edwards guy from Houston...

Dems can do just as much "projection" disguised as legislation, I guess, as Repubbies...

[LynneSin]

6. This is Texas, they have democrats that make my Repuke congressman....

...look like a flaming liberal.

Bush touted that he was able to work with democrats in Texas Statehouse, but Texan democrats tend to be more conservative than Northeastern republicans (ie Collins, Snowe, Specter, Chafee and Jeffords). Of course after the Jeffords defection, the Bush regime deals with moderate republicans by pretty much shutting them out as much as feasible possible and threaten them with primary candidates

[LisaM]

4. Well, I don't agree with the bill, BUT....

by no stretch of the imagination should those people be called "cheerleaders." When's the last time any of them actually led a cheer? As a fan, I find it really insulting that I am supposed to watch a bunch of girls/women gyrate around at a sporting event. If I wanted to pay for a floor show, I'd go to Las Vegas. But I certainly don't agree with this time waster of a bill - worse, it means that the public scolds can decide what's suggestive and what isn't.

[Left Is Write]

7. Ridiculous. Would they like to outlaw dancing too, a la Footloose?

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. coming up next

colorless uniforms, because the sight of color might turn on a member of the opposite sex just an inkling, and uniforms designed by Amish Bush Supporters

[villager]

9. when does "Handmaid's Tale" get put on the "nonfiction" shelves

Where it now belongs?

[Hugin]

11. Scandalous!

I propose they also wear cheer leading outfits based
on this Victorian Swimwear!



Even those show two much loquacious flesh... But, they
have to see.

A burqua? maybe?

[7th_Sephiroth]

12. cant let teenagers enjoy the awful

dirty, filthy, ugly, SIN of sex, so sayeth the preachers

[The Animator]

13. That's what cheerleading is all about, that's their purpose.

Since ancient times women have been used to boost the morale of athletes and warriors on the fields of sports and battle.

From the Gladiators and Medival Jousters to Footbal Teams and Profesional Wrestlers, woman's presence at any competion hits a primal nerve. It's instinctive, the men are compeled to prove that they are bigger, stronger, more manly, than their opponents. It may not even be realized on a conscious level, but it's there, just like Rams butting heads in mating season, lions and wolves fighting for dominance in their packs.

Competitive sports originated as a means for warriors to prove themselves in battle (and thus prove that they deserve to breed), without war, bloodshed or death.

Just as sports are a watered down version of battle, cheerleading is a watered down version of the hordes of Roman virgins awaiting returning soldiers after their conquests.

I know I am over simplifying the matter, over the years Cheerleading has evolved into an artform in and of it'self, incorporating dance, choreography, and acrobatics. That however, does not alter the history behind this activity, nor does it alter it's fundemental purpose. Trying to remove the sexual conotations from Cheerleading, would be like trying to remove violence from footbal, or Rednecks from Nascar.

[GirlinContempt]

14. The more you try to hide something

The more teenagers tend to want to do it. Oh, I know! How about pass a bill that says all teenagers must be able to list off all STDs and their effects, all forms of birth control and their efficiency, and demonstrate proper condom application before they're allowed to graduate into high school? Might be a leeetle more helpful with the problems they're so worried about.