Cheerleaders and Cheer Moms

  I don’t get it.  I was a cheerleader in high school.  Never in my life have I had so much attention from boys and men.  It was a strange place to be in because it’s really not the norm and it’s not reality.  In our local youth football league, there are cheerleaders as young as 7.  Seven years old!  There they are in short skirts learning how to shake their bums and pose provocatively.  It bothers me that the stadiums are filled with strangers; perhaps there might be a petafile among us in the crowd.  Maybe the guy is taking pictures of these young girls.  Who knows?  Why would any parent put their daughter in a position to be viewed like that?  I just don’t get it.  I don’t get the whole beauty queen thing either.  Are the cheer moms are trying to relive their youth through their young daughters?  Can’t young cheer leaders be taught to cheer loudly and clap hard?  Can we save the hip gyration for the older girls?