Texas doesn't have bigger problems to solve?

by Country Girl 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  Rabbit

  I think it's DUMB, too. There are MANY other important things for the legislature to deal with, as usual the knee-jerk fundamentalist christians politians feel like they MUST go along just to...look good for their fundy voters.

  I really haven't been paying too much attention since I first heard about it, I figured it would simply die of stupidity. Now, I'm going to E-mail my Senators to voice my concern. As has been mentioned, there are already anti-lewdness laws on the books, as well as PARENTS that do a pretty good job of watching the morality of their student children. We don't need MORE laws.

  LMAO, about condoms...remember the Saturday Night Live skit about 'Safe Sex"? The characters wore full body condoms while making love.... Maybe 'future' cheerleaders uniforms will be floor length dresses with burkas...

  Rabbit
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  Country Girl

  The politicians are probably doing it out of self-protection.

  I'm sure more than one of their wives have given a good elbow to their ribs for staring at the cheerleaders at the high school football games. Funny how he was supposed to be taking pictures of his son's moves on the field, and kept *accidentally* getting shots of the cheerleaders moves on the field. heheheh. NO MORE BROKEN RIBS!

  CG
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  Elsewhere

  Once again people do not want to take on personal responsibility for their actions, or in this case, their in-action. If parents don't want their underage daughters dancing around like strippers, then they need to enforce their parental authority over them and remove them from the cheerleading squad.
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  undercover

  I think it's more like some ole goat got excited by watching some 16 year old at a ballgame and being the right-wing fundie he is, had to use his power to ensure that no one else ever has that kind of hedonistic thought creep into their minds. It's not his fault after all, it was that loose harlot girl shaking her money maker that caused him to be possessed by the devil's thoughts.
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  Qcmbr

  Actually I'd say no Texas doesn't have bigger problems.
  
  Women have fought so hard for freedom from male dominance and what do they end up dong with that freedom - dancing suggestively for the pleasure of the men. Anyone who says these girls aren't dancing to titilate is not lookin at what they are doing. If that's innocent expression why not just roll out some poles and get them wiggling there, while were at it just cut away most of the costumes and reveal as much flesh as you can - they could then have money thrown at them - help them pay for college!
  
  Wake up. Some women are more exploited now than they think. This sort of thing is important to deal with becasue its teaching respect for women and for women to respect themselves. Cheerleading is fine, dance doesn't have to be lewd, costumes don't have to be suggestive etc.. surely everyone can see that. These young women though are being taught a very powerful lesson which I fully believe they understand. Sex is a form of power - but its a sham - when women get abused, beaten up, raped, treated as sexual objects not individuals of worth, when women are discarded for the newest model and so on- where did all the fun, glamour and glitz go.
  
  I spent two years knocking on doors and the number of young mothers I saw broke my heart, just kids consumed by a societies voracious appetite for sex, fathers mainly absent or too young to support their babies, women with that haunted look of fear and hurt _ I saw it too many times - cheerleading is part of a really big issue that affect lives more deeply than tax bills, highway regulations or often hunger, illness and poverty - I cried once when I left a house where a young mother was shooting up while her daughter crawled amongst the needles. Thats why I want modesty brought back into our schools, our televisions our homes. I want sex to be taught as a beautiful, special (sacred?) thing that is primarily for the purpose of procreation , something to be revered not made cheap and sold with marching bands and dance moves. Our wives, sisters, mothers, daughters are surely worth more than this.
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  Elsewhere

  I think it's more like some ole goat got excited by watching some 16 year old at a ballgame

  I saw a news report about this problem. People go to the games with cameras to take pics and video of the stripper-style cheerleader dances for posting on websites that cater to such material. A pedophiles dream... legal pics and video of underage girls doing nasty dances.

  It got so bad that the parents started watching the stands looking for anyone they did not recognize as a parent/relative/friend of a student and chased them off.

  Unfortunatly the parents are too stupid even consider making their daughters stop doing stripper-style dances in public.
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  Bendrr

  Damn, you Americans are so lucky! we don't have cheerleaders at all in Europe

  That certainly explains a lot!

  Does anyone else agree with me that we, both as individual states and as a nation, already have enough laws on the books? Twenty years ago, parents would be yanking their girls out of the cheerleading squad toot quick and there'd be school officials in the unemployment line the next day.

  But now, it's up to the government to oversee high school cheerleading?

  Gimme a break, y'all! There doesn't have to be a law for everything!

  Mike.
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  Country Girl

  While I agree that the cheerleading squads at some schools are provocative, I feel that there already *is* a law that says "lewd behavior" on campuses is not allowed, and that should be enough; along with parental monitoring. I don't think we need our legislators taking our valuable taxpayer dollars to legislate a thing that's already been taken care of, when we have more significant problems of balancing a state budget, poor teachers' pay, inadequate educational funding, families with no health insurance, rising education costs, etc.

  This is an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars, and an attempt by legislators to "grand-stand" for the populace on an issue that is already taken care of.

  CG
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  jeanniebeanz

  Well I, for one, am outraged by the lewd moves of these young hussies on the field. In fact, the more intently I watch them, the more outraged I become! LOL

  Seriously though, if my daughter had moved like that on the HS squad, I'd have pitched a screaming blue fit. The other moms felt the same way and we kept the 'do me now' moves off the field... This is the job of parents not government and the fact that government felt it had to get involved is a black eye to any moron parent who allows their precious daughter to play the part of a pole dancer in public.

  J
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  DanTheMan

  More political grandstanding to look pretty for the Christians. Straight out of the "How to Manipulate the Christian vote and win win win" playbook authored by Bush, Frist, DeLay, et al.

  Too bad fundies and evangelicals are considered the most important voting bloc for politicians to court these days.

  I'd like to see some political ads along the lines of:

  Vote for John Smith. He's not religious, and doesn't give a damn what the Christians think.