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Related: About this forumScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I'm going to lose it if you do this every day. This afternoon I finally filed a complaint with the FCC over our local radio idiots (The Blitz in Houston) for thinking that using the term "Sanduskied" (and pulling down the pants of Penn State and bending them over) was funny. Posting cheesecake shots of cheerleaders alienates an entire group of educated football fans. Please treat me with respect.
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)Thank you.
Upton
(9,709 posts)as is, cheerleaders are part of the sport..
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)were stepped on in another thread. But then...you know that, don't you?
Go Pack GO!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Ignore the threads. Put trumad on ignore. Or post your own beefcake pics for the females (or whatevers).
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)upset.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Talk football all you want.
You see a cheerleader thread, avoid it.
It's as easy as that.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)In the hopes that someday you'll get it. Because sometimes you do get it. As I stated before, when we're all discussing actual sports (I don't see anything to go along with the picture here) I enjoy your posts.
Funny when you think about it.
The one complaining will 'lose it" if I post cheerleader pictures.
Does that mean she loses it when she goes to an NFL football game and see's them in person?
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)You bet.
If you had added a commentary about the actual sport of cheerleading (as you did with your other post that I had no problem with)? I wouldn't have bothered.
trumad
(41,692 posts)This is shoved in your face? No it's not.
Ignore it.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)As an avid sports fan, as the mother of a sports fanatic (that I'm trying to teach respect to in a world full of locker room humor), and as a fellow DUer.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Really what?
I'm sorry that Green bay doesn't have any Cheerleaders---
The rest of the NFL does though and we love them.
This cheer leading crew is world famous.
http://thebettingadvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders.bmp
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)something you go off all half cocked and decide to alienate a few more females that enjoy this forum. It's a shame, because you could be a real addition with your actual posts about sports.
trumad
(41,692 posts)and you really need to stop.
Again---The ignore tab can be your friend.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I'm not going anywhere.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I'll see you tomorrow then since this will be a daily thread.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I doubt it will last long.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I'll make it once a week.
Hey did you know that Green Bay was the first NFL team to have Cheerleaders.
OH my!
Several Green Bay Packers cheerleading squads have performed in Green Bay Packers' history. The Packers became one of the first professional football teams to have a cheerleading squad, having first used cheerleaders in 1931. The squad performed for 57 years under three separate names. In 1988, it was decided that the team would cease having a professional squad cheer for them. As of 2007, the team uses collegiate squads in a limited role to cheer during home games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers_cheerleaders
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I like that they now use high school squads. It's exciting for the kids.
TBF
(32,070 posts)what's good for the goose and so forth
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)That's very good of you to complain.
You should post the details in GD. Maybe it will lead to some shaming.
trumad
(41,692 posts)or avoid these threads.
Yeah---I got pissed because some overly sensitive member got offended that I posted a shot of the Rooney Mara getting a tattoo on her ass.
This is the sports forum and if I want to post a picture of an NFL Cheerleader picture, I will.
If you don't like it, don't click on it.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)becomes a sexist trampoline. Don't like it put me on fucking ignore. I enjoy your sports related posts, but this crap is immature and stupid. You wanna talk about the sport of cheerleading? Go for it. You wanna do this? I'll be on your butt about it. It's who I am. And I hate male sports fans who think being sexist is part of the program.
trumad
(41,692 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Super easy.
To ask for respect as a sports fan (regardless of my gender) isn't being PC, tru.
trumad
(41,692 posts)It's a God Damn NFL cheerleader and MALE sports fans enjoy that part of the NFL!
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)But it wasn't. And, again, you know that. Not PC... just asking for respect.
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)Something that's lacking at times here.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Is that what you are saying?
Iggo
(47,558 posts)...in a thread about the actor who plays the girl with the dragon tattoo in the movie The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?
What the fuck is wrong with you?!?!?!?!
Ptah
(33,032 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)An NFL Cheerleader isn't about sports?
Ptah
(33,032 posts)your unwillingness to respect others.
trumad
(41,692 posts)No more NFL Cheerleader pictures because it offends a few?
Is that what you are saying?
Ptah
(33,032 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)I ask again---does this mean no more NFL Cheerleader pictures?
Is that what you are saying?
Upton
(9,709 posts)here's the 2011 Gold Rush Girls squad.. courtesy of the San Francisco 49ers..you know, the FOOTBALL TEAM?
http://www.49ers.com/gold-rush/2011-squad.html
trumad
(41,692 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Of course, if this isn't to remind us of that, then remember the scripted songs played during the game, where all the douchebags pretend to act so they can see their faces on the jumbotron.
Yes, the live sports experience has degraded to the level of reality TV, which might make this goofy OP look good by comparison.
trumad
(41,692 posts)then don't post in the sports forum.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)I don't like BS.
If you like BS so much, why do you bother with sports?
"sports are nothing but meaningless entertainment".
Your quote...not mine.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)It's not my OP.
Try again.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)At least I picked up some popcorn on the way home!
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Note: I am addressing the behavior, not the individual.
trumad
(41,692 posts)NFL cheerleaders in a sports forum.
The horror.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Nice try.
Upton
(9,709 posts)getting themselves in shape and going through vigorous tryouts in order to make the team. It's a proud accomplishment for them when they are named to the squad. I'm quite sure they couldn't care less about some PC bullshit...
These cheerleaders are part of the NFL..get used to it or don't watch it..
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)It's you and the rest of DU's PC police, that seem to be perpetually outraged. Try getting a life of your own.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)I don't know how anyone wouldn't see in anger the response of yours above, however.
Thanks for keeping the giggles going!
On edit, it appears that post number 49 is rather angry as well. Interesting!
trumad
(41,692 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)And God did it work.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)I'll give you that.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Some people here just amaze me. I am so pissed off at the Little Miss Bossy attitude of some DU people, I could just explode.
Trumad is trying to make a goddamn point! What seems sexist to some is not to others. Modest displays of a female body is not sexist. Cheerleaders are not sexist! The sports talk show that Screeming Meemie mentioned is. Lingerie football is. Thank gawd no one has ever brought that crap in here.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)I'm sure you will.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)thread is. Now, if he had posted the history of the NFL Cheerleader the thread would be fine. Awesome even. He did not. He knows what he's doing. And it's Mrs. to you. Thank you.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)If so, I don't see anything bad.
Now don't go and call me sexist, because of that.
And another thing. You don't seem to know what a cheesecake cheerleader photo really is. I'd show you, but that would get me juried for sure.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I did not see anything wrong with that thread, as my response to it shows. It had actual content. This one did not. Someone else did, this was his response. Not quite so mature. I called him on it. And I'll continue to call him on immature, boorish, alienating behavior. It is my hope, in not clicking alert willy nilly, people will begin to realize that they truly are alienating educated, sports fans...who aren't of their own gender.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)And trumad is a master at it.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)trumad is like 3rd string.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I'm sorry! Will you please let me out of the root cellar!
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)she has a natural look... if you know what I mean. Not all full of silicone.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I agree. She is in amazing natural shape.
Auggie
(31,174 posts)From Wikipedia:
National Football League Cheerleading, or simply NFL Cheerleading, is a professional cheerleading league in the United States. Twenty six of the 32 NFL teams include a cheerleading squad in their franchise. Cheerleaders are a popular attraction that can give a team more coverage/airtime, popular local support and increased media image. For the NFL, the Baltimore Colts were the first team in the NFL to have cheerleaders in 1954. They were also a part of the Baltimore Colts Marching Band. Currently, six NFL teams have no cheerleaders.
According to most NFL cheerleading sites, cheerleading is classified as a part-time job that consists of time for practice, training camp, games, appearances, photo shoots, and charity events.
Most often, cheerleaders have completed or are attending a university, and continue on to other careers after cheering for an average of one to four seasons.
Apart from their main duties of cheering during the football games, the cheerleaders have many other responsibilities. Nearly every team member is available for appearances at schools, events, conferences, etc., for a set fee. An anticipated annual event is the release of each squad's calendar, featuring members for each month in swimsuits, lingerie, or uniforms. As well as being a mainstay of American football culture, the cheerleaders are one of the biggest entertainment groups to regularly perform for the United States Armed Forces overseas. All performances and tours are enlisted by the USO. Teams send their variety show, an elite group of their best members, to perform combination shows of dance, music, baton twirling, acrobatics, gymnastics, and more. In February 2007, the Buffalo Bills even sent a squad of eight along with their choreographer into the war zone of Iraq. In 1996, the San Francisco 49ers Cheerleaders and their director Angela King-Twitero helicoptered into the war inflicted country of Bosnia with the USO and the U.S. Army. The U.S. troops in Korea have been entertained during the holiday season with the USO's Bob Hope Tour. Over the years, the tour has featured NFL cheerleaders from the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers.
As of 2006, a competition strictly for NFL cheerleaders was introduced on The NFL Network, called NFL Cheerleader Playoffs. Two cheerleaders from each cheerleading team compete against other mini-teams in various athletic events. This includes kayaking, 100 yard dash, obstacle courses, and other events.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_Cheerleading
But according to errrrr some, these ladies undermine all thier hard earned gains.
Pure bullshit in mho.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)They are really not cheerleaders like in high school or college. They are really a pom/dance squad.
The tryouts are based on looks and dance ability. I am a retired dance teacher in Tulsa and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders ( DCC)
were always bugging me to send my older girls to tryout. You have to have another income if you want to do it too. They make squat.
In the not too distant past it was just $25.00 a game, but I think it's up to 12,000 or 13,000 a year now because of all the extra events they do. This is for DCC. I don't know about other squads.
trumad
(41,692 posts)And I love that they love doing it.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Some do not. My great aunt did not care so much for it. It was too cold. Imagine if you had put all this insight you've got going on in your replies into the original post. Might I suggest, for your next post, posting a picture of a Cowboy cheerleader with the actual history of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Informative, entertaining and not sexist.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Ptah
(33,032 posts)Doesn't sound like much.
Doesn't sound like the NFL considers them worth more than a fast-food worker.
Auggie
(31,174 posts)Women choose to do it. Men too.
Think the stadium groundscrew makes a killing? Or security? Ticket takers? The public address announcer? It's part-time work that people choose to do for whatever reason.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Perhaps some cheerleaders are also in the same boat, but I'm not sure all of them are ... but that road goes down so many miles, with so many turns, I'm not ready to go there with the angry "PC sucks" crowd on its soap box.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I hate to be the male to bear the bad news, but if this isn't fun for everybody, then it isn't fun.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . are war criminals and robber barons, then I guess the Three Stooges pass for gentlemen.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)MaineDem
(18,161 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)I will take that under advisement.
MineralMan
(146,318 posts)Would that be OK? Maybe Grammar School Cheerleaders, too. There are photos of them, too. How far can we go, I wonder?
You know...just because I can....
trumad
(41,692 posts)If that is your thing.
Personally I like the fully developed.
MineralMan
(146,318 posts)How do they like you, do you think?
You appear to have missed my point, but that's OK.
trumad
(41,692 posts)albeit a pretty stupid one.
MineralMan
(146,318 posts)__Forrest Gump
TBF
(32,070 posts)I had to serve on a jury because of this ...
So help me if you keep this up I'm starting a thread on chess
I gotta see the results.
TBF
(32,070 posts)I was juror #4:
At Wed Jan 4, 2012, 02:12 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
Yeah sure---go for it.
REASON FOR ALERT:
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)
ALERTER'S COMMENTS:
Yes, I know the whole thread borders on sexism but this particular post seems to point to it more specifically.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Jan 4, 2012, 03:08 PM, and the Jury voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: yeah, the whole thread is objectionable and not PC - but I really have a problem with the PC police, and, like it or not, this is in the Sports forum where sort of thing is part of the landscape.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: I don't see the sexism here. I'm voting to hide the post because it's pretty clear from the entirety of the thread that the intent is not to ogle women who choose to be ogled but to antagonize those who have complained. It doesn't upset me that men look at beautiful women, particularly women dressed for public venues, albeit with the intent to be sexy. But the poster is obviously trying to goad people, not for the sake of provoking discussion but for the intent of upsetting them and nothing else. In short: trolling.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: sports forum - this is what they do
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I don't particularly like the concept of cheerleaders either but I can't see where this post breaks any rules.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,461 posts)It took like 20 minutes or so. Looks like a juror was holding out.
Upton
(9,709 posts)nevertheless, it nice to see the jury had some common sense..
TBF
(32,070 posts)the one with the picture.
But someone may have alerted on other posts as well - I wouldn't be surprised.
Upton
(9,709 posts)trumad
84. Yeah sure---go for it.
View profile
If that is your thing.
Personally I like the fully developed.
I dunno - maybe it comes up as #83 for you?? Oh well, at least the jury was sane.
I'm sorry...I must be blind.. oops, hope that doesn't get alerted on.
If the sensitive sorts are having a hard time here I hope they never see the lounge - it will give them a heart attack.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Please feel free to contribute.
TBF
(32,070 posts)I have no problem with Trumad or with chess for that matter.
But maybe I should check out the thread and learn something! I've never actually played the game.