You state in your review: "Hopefully it was not the intention of the author to make others believe that this is what it's like in the world of cheer (in IL or otherwise), because while it is in some places, it's not like that everywhere." The title of the book is Cheer World - MY life as an Illinois All-Star Cheerleader. Sounds to me that this was HER story. And in the author's note at the end of the book it says "This memoir is strictly MY experience that I've had with all-star cheerleading in the past few years. I'm NOT sure whether or not this applies to every area in the United States," Again, reading the entire book and comprehending what she is saying is key. I found the "Notes from the Author" the most informative about all-star cheerleading. For instance, she writes "I feel like cheerleaders and coaches are constantly trying to prove to the world that cheer is a sport." That pretty much sums up one of the most talked about subject in all-star cheer. There are several paragraphs in the Author's Notes that explains the reasoning behind the book.
Let me preface this by saying that not everything I'm about to say is directed at you.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I just defended her in my previous post. Without repeating anything I was a lot easier on her than could have been, especially given some of the things she said. I did not have to defend her or anything she said or her motives for writing that book AT ALL. I could have been outraged by what I read and let that be known to all, ripped her and this book to pieces....
Also, I am well aware this is a recounting of her personal experience from her memory of the last few years of her cheer career and she does make that evident. However that does my mean there were not ulterior motives.
I AM NOT SAYING THAT THERE WERE.
But it's just like that top girl who doesn't want to fly on a particular group when a change is made. Though she acts like its fine and she's gonna do what she has to do she intentionally falls/ makes mistakes while trying to play it off as if it isn't working so that the result is she gets a new group.
"Susie why isn't your stunt hitting?"
"Idk I'm trying my best"
"Well it looks like your just doing whatever you feel like and letting it happen"
"I swear I'm doing my best to stay in the air"
"Okay let's try switching you with susie2"
When all along she just wanted to be out in a different group.
In actuality I don't know why I'm defending myself right now because my post was extremely nice, considering, AND it was more in defense of her than anything!!
In REALITY this woman does misrepresent many of the people she mentioned in this book to an extent. In all honesty some of the things she said are flat out wrong. And the fact is many good, decent people are made to look like people you wouldn't want around your children, working with your program or even having around as an acquaintance. Whether or not it was her true intent one knows how things will be taken by others and she was not considerate of that.
Do not tell me after defending her on all of this that I am misrepresenting the author or her book.
Every time she talks about a stunt mistake she has no clue what happened. As if she went up and did everything she was supposed to perfectly. And by some feat her foot just never seemed to stay in her bases hands. Then it gets saved. She never directly places blame on anyone, but it can be inferred that it's being placed on the bases.
I DON'T like the way she talked about my team.
I don't like the way she spoke in regard to me at one point.
There's so much I could say, but...
I'm going to stop now.
She doesn't completely absolve herself of any wrong doing, but on the whole she does make it seem like all these bad things are going on around her and she is just left to sit there and judge everyone.
These are people that call her friend. People I'm sure she still calls, or would like to call friends or at least friendly acquaintances and this is how she talks about them.
I'm still in the process of reading this and even now I still do not have a problem with her. I can honestly say that if I saw her ten minutes from now I would still greet her the way I did when we were more involved in each others lives.
But at the same time when you've been through as many programs as she has in such a short time and each time has had many bridges burned you've got to wonder ,"why?". It is highly unlikely that everywhere she goes EVERYONE ELSE is the problem.
People don't see how other than the three girls she immediately clung to upon entering the gym, her boyfriends friends and myself were the only actual "friends" she had. They don't realize that very few people liked/ trusted her the entire time she was there. Now we ALL know why. You don't see how when she was at my gym, it was the best thing to ever happen to that family until seemingly out of nowhere she was at a different gym. Completely blindsided. All because we refused to disallow two other mentioned in the book from being present in our facilities. Oh and no surprise that the new gym was also the best thing that ever happened to her as well until she left there very shortly after..
May I ask what type of person posts a resignation as a Facebook status???
Making sure to talk about the owner by name in a way that makes them look spiteful....
That's all I have to say about this.
I like to think that I am a very insightful and open-minded individual especially for someone my age so maybe when I'm done with it my view point will have changed, but none of that really matters.
What's done is done and for her the sh!t hit the fan and this time all eyes are on her.
Time to own up.
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