- Nov 3, 2010
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My school newspaper released an editorial on cheerleading and it being a sport and had 2 sides explaining why it is and why it isn't. We were expecting good, well thought out reasons as to why it wasn't a sport, but were disgusted and HIGHLY offended about what it said. It pretty much said we were sluts. Said we wear tight clothing, are preppy, popular, too skinny, bad role models to younger girls, and compared us to people who do cup stacking competitions. I have never been so mad at someone for this reason in my entire cheerleading career. I understand if you say we don't kick a ball or something, but to say something so rude is just unnerving. I'll see if I can get the article tomorrow, but if you read it you would see that she was not being nice. Then when confronting other people in the class about it, they said "It's an editorial, it's supposed to be rude." I was in that class last year. I wrote editorials and they were NEVER rude and had facts backing up opinions, not opinions backing up opinions and wrong ones at that. I just can't believe that the editors, teacher, and principal let something like that even be published.