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The strained tendon, split lip and concussion — I had them all. They were battle wounds in the sport I loved, in which I participated from age 5 through college. And I didn’t have an athletic trainer standing on the sidelines during practice overseeing a slip or fall. If anything, we hid any injury out of fear of having our beloved program cut by the district, which may not have wanted it there to begin with.
Sorry, pervs. No nip slips here. Just a Buffalo Bandits lacrosse cheerleader, called a Bandette, getting an oversized jersey stuck on her head during a dance routine and continuing to hit all her marks while looking like a sexy cheer ghost. It's hilarious.
Inside, though, the stakes feel just as high. One by one, teams clad in sparkly uniforms run on to the stage, desperate to wow the panel of five judges with their two-and-a-half minute routines. They try to mask their nerves with rehearsed smiles as they execute hand springs, pyramids and everything in between – all while lip-syncing to carefully-curated backing tracks. One judge's sole job is deducting points for slip-ups. When a stunt goes wrong, it can be difficult to bring the performance back.
When examining many artifacts I start with a classic interpretation of cheerleaders in movies. In the movie “Fired up!” (2009) many cheerleaders are being highly emphasized by their sexual manner and how they are being perceived by those around them. Following, I have a clip from the movie when the two male protagonists arrive at cheerleading camp for the first time:
When looking at this clip, I begin to look at what the cheerleaders are doing in the scene through a personal lens (I, a former cheerleader), to also looking at how it is meant to be perceived by an outside audience. To an outside audience, the scene is meant to have a very sexual connotation, and reinforce the stereotype where cheerleaders are highly sexualized individuals who hold a reputation for showing of their bodies. This is supported by the music that was shown in the scene, “Bananza (Belly Dancer)” by Akon. This song is one that is highly sexual including lyrics such as “shake your body like a belly dancer”. This is contributing to the scene being sexual due to my viewing of the scene without the music. Although the movements of the bodies remain the same, the physical act of stretching before a physical activity is not a sexual act regardless of the motions used to perform the stretches.
Another popular stereotype I want to draw attention to is a clip from “One Tree Hill”, where the cheerleaders in the scene are in full make-up. This is interesting to analyze based on the way that cheerleading is perceived by the general public as being a feminine sport. In theory, there is nothing wrong with this interpretation of the sport; however, it lingers a certain connotation in the perception of the athletic ability of an individual. I first want to make a distinction between the portrayals of practice vs. sport. In my opinion these portrayals of cheerleaders in full make up and glam to practice is a very negative stereotype. When most think of sports I believe most do not expect to have make up on due to the high cardio regimen and the likelihood of high perspiration. Why would we bother with make up? In my opinion, depicting these cheerleaders in full make up during a practice is holding the underlying assumption that cheerleaders are not true athletes; therefore, can wear make-up when practicing their “sport” because they wouldn’t sweat.
They valued the experience, doing the papers just because they wanted to. But you and I had to, Isis. Our actions couldn’t be driven by interest, but by necessity. Our other classmates could let time slip by, because their lives would be waiting for them, handed to them at graduation. Not us. We had to prove we were worthy.
We filmed it on a Friday night in a borrowed San Diego high school standing in for East Compton. It was an outdoor shoot, right at the threshold of the gym. This was the scene where I confront Torrance and Missy, played by Eliza Dushku, after they travel to East Compton to watch us cheer. Missy takes Torrance there to show how Big Red, the former captain of the cheerleaders, had actually been ripping off Clover routines for years, the same routines Big Red had passed on to Torrance. They watch us perform and realize their lives are a lie. According to the script, you stop Torrance and Missy as they’re slipping out of the gym. You assume they’re stealing again, and want whatever videotape they took of the routines you invented. This was one of the scenes where the Black actresses had to finesse the script day-of to avoid the embarrassing dialogue that was initially written for us. Left to improvise, I had free rein to put words in your mouth and ad-lib your thoughts on cultural appropriation. Not just that: Race and worthiness. Who gets opportunities and why. The scene would give white people a chance to see themselves as complicit in cultural appropriation, but the takeaway for marginalized audiences would be different. It could tell them, “You’re not crazy. Your physical and intellectual labor really has been stolen and repackaged for profit. It’s real.”
Small slip: Madonna only appeared to make one noticeable mistake when she failed to step back up onto a bleacher through her performance of Music
The January 14 picture saw her robe was slipping open a bit, exposing a part of her chest. While it did appear as though she had been the victim of a wardrobe malfunction, the model quickly clarified in the caption. Her clarification unsuprisingly came in a very Chrissy way.
