All-Star Reasoning Behind Not Considered A "sport"?

[FierceIsTheName]

I used to get all riled up and fight with people about cheerleading being a sport. Went so much as to say "well if it is so easy then why can't you do it?"

Maybe it is just me growing up but I don't really care if my football loving friend doesn't think cheer is a sport. They love football, I love cheerleading. If you try to tell me I am not an athlete then I will ask you politely to perform any set of skills that I can do and show the athletic training it takes to do those skills. But if you tell me it is not a sport I will respectfully accept your opinion as there are many grey areas in defining exactly what a sport is as @BlueCat has mentioned already. Yes I think cheerleading is a sport in my eyes but other people still think our sole purpose is to wave signs and pom poms and that is okay. Those opinions do not really matter to me anyways as they are uneducated.

I've kinda given up when people say it isnt a sport. I usually just send them a link to like gymtyme's level 6 team (can't think of the name all of the sudden) and then ask them if they can do that and then after that i give up :rolleyes:

 

[Akallstar907]

I actually did a whole project about this in AP Lang last year! What I found the biggest reason people did not think of cheerleading as a sport was the fact that they were still uneducated about cheerleading and what we actually do. They see an image of us, portrayed both by the social media, and history itself. They see the poofs and skirts and tans and they associate us with what they think "cheerleaders" are supposed to be: pretty, snobbish, stuck up queen bees who say "go team" for the boys and just do it for the popularity. Which is understandable considering its what a lot of the social media portrays us as. A lot of feminist types have trouble calling cheer a sport because we look pretty while we do it. These types a lot of times define a "sport" by the visible toughness. However we aren't really supposed to look like we are working hard. (Even though we are) We are supposed to make everything we do look easy.




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[chyeeaaa69]

I just feel like this has been discussed so many times.

 

[ScottyB]

If you do prove to someone that cheer is a sport, do you get a prize?

Why go through all the silliness and repetitive arguments about cheer being a sport when you know it is and you know that the other person will not accept it as a sport. No other sport has to define themselves as one because they all assume they are and ignore the arguments against. Case in point: Nascar

 

[cheerisloving]

I only care because I get tired of hearing adults trying to get girls to stop doing something they love/interested in because 'there's no future in it'. So having your kid play other 'sports' will yield better results? Sports scholarships are not easy to come by, and music is difficult to break into.

My mom says that everything you do in life shouldn't be based on the future, and that if your child wants to cheer, let them. Don't hold your kid back because there's no money or scholarship from it. Cheerleading has impacted me and I would not be a good public speaker or have any confidence without cheer. I'd hate for a little girl to miss out on an amazing world that could change their life because their parents don't think it will matter in the future.

 

[Aussiekat]

I actually did a whole project about this in AP Lang last year! What I found the biggest reason people did not think of cheerleading as a sport was the fact that they were still uneducated about cheerleading and what we actually do. They see an image of us, portrayed both by the social media, and history itself. They see the poofs and skirts and tans and they associate us with what they think "cheerleaders" are supposed to be: pretty, snobbish, stuck up queen bees who say "go team" for the boys and just do it for the popularity. Which is understandable considering its what a lot of the social media portrays us as. A lot of feminist types have trouble calling cheer a sport because we look pretty while we do it. These types a lot of times define a "sport" by the visible toughness. However we aren't really supposed to look like we are working hard. (Even though we are) We are supposed to make everything we do look easy.




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Ahem this feminist type has no problem with being pretty, tough and calling cheerleading a sport. You'd be surprised how many feminists are regular human beings, or cheerleaders ;)

 

[CheerBank]

If you do prove to someone that cheer is a sport, do you get a prize?

Why go through all the silliness and repetitive arguments about cheer being a sport when you know it is and you know that the other person will not accept it as a sport. No other sport has to define themselves as one because they all assume they are and ignore the arguments against. Case in point: Nascar

Yes. You get a unicorn.

 

[ScottyB]

Yes. You get a unicorn.

Oh yes!!!! Time to go prove some people wrong!