Poll: What do you think about cheerleaders?

[ironmace2.0]

Well belive it or not my schools cheerleaders are almost all guys yeah but I dont mine its there choice if their gay or not but I do find it a bit odd but some do it as a joke and some of them are my friends and the girl's are quite cute and very inteligant. The smartest girl in the school is one so I guess it depends on the cheerleaders some are dumb uglys but some are smart and nice so it depends on them.

 

[darthzew]

Sexy? No. But they are fun.

 

[ironmace2.0]

They're pleasant on the eyes, not to mention ping-pong is a sport at the Olympics, never watched Forest Gump? =p

So is weightlifting. You don't think weightlifting is a sport do you?

Yes, of course it is!

And on topic: Yes, cheerleaders are hot, haven't you ever watched Heroes?

Lol! I was going to say that...

 

[Rigs83]

I find a lot of guys think cheerleaders are sexy but for the most part I find them to be loud, annoying, and often unintelligent people. What's worse is they have the impression that cheer leading is a sport. It is not a sport. It's an activity. If cheer leading is a sport then ping pong is also a sport. Anyway, what do you guys think of cheerleaders?

Edit: Ok, I'm thinking about it and I will concede that ping pong is a sport. I guess a better comparison would be dancing. If cheer leading is a sport then so is dancing.

Ping Pong is huge in China and is in the Olympics, there are professional ballroom dancers who dance in competitions for cash( see "Dancing With the Stars") and American men fancy cheerleaders because the are symbols of sex in a mostly (before the 60's and internet) repressed society.
Just look at what a cheerleader is:
Young, athletic, wearing tight clothes and a skirt (unless they are male)just running and prancing around for you too literally look at.
And it is a sport I saw a cheer off (it's a judged event like the Olympic sport of synchronized swimming)on ESPN and the guys were tossing and twirling the actual cheerleaders like you and I would toss a stick.
Not my cup of tea but you have to respect their dedication.

I will become a fan when the use a micro grenade as the ball in ping pong, ballroom dance in a minefield and cheer offs done all natural (nude). Just imagine the pay per view sales.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

They're pleasant on the eyes, not to mention ping-pong is a sport at the Olympics, never watched Forest Gump? =p

So is weightlifting. You don't think weightlifting is a sport do you?

Yes, of course it is!

And on topic: Yes, cheerleaders are hot, haven't you ever watched Heroes?

I find Clarie from hereos just whining and annoying now, i wish they kill her off. Oh wait they made that impossible

We dont really have cheerleaders in the UK however if American TVs anything to go by then they're generic popular people. And i tend to dislike these people, so i imagine them singing and shouting wouldnt help the situation

Personally I find that character to be just way too EMO (which in retrospect is really odd to see in a cheerleader)
I don't particularly like them, then again the ones I knew were excruciatingly annoying.

 

[InProgress]

We don't have no cheerleaders. It also depends: Wouldn't date one, but would have sex with one, and then drop her like a kidney stone (american movie stereotype, don't mind me).

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I wouldn't mind some more cheerleaders in this world. They're easy on the eyes.

 

[Kuliani]

In my first year at Uni, I thought it would be fun to take up cheerleading, (the crazy flippy kind), and I thought "Hey, I'm in England, i'm sure they won't be bitches like the ones you see on american tv programs." So at the sports sign up event I walked up to them and said "Hi! I'm interested in picking this up this year." and they just laughed, whispered to each other and then said- "We don't like rock music, sorry." (I was wearing a Pantera hoody.) Now, i'm no supermodel but i'm not too shabby, I'm blonde, I like to be chirpy about things, and i'm flexible, so I was pretty gutted. I couldn't believe they were actual sterotypical cheerleaders.
Anyway- Rant over.

I'd lke them a whole lot more if they weren't evil, but I do like Bring It On.

This isn't a democracy, it's a cheerocracy!

I was a male cheerleader in high school. I, and my friend, were the first male cheerleaders (and only ones ever) at our high school. We were met with extremely fierce opposition, but a lot of support from a couple of the girls from the squad (no, we never actually dated any of them), so we tried it out. I have not faced any challenge so great as to the student's bigotry towards us; getting as close to us as is possible during a game and yelling things like "******!" and "you fucking pussy, get off the field" is not easy to take, much less to actually stay there and continue the cheers. (we aren't gay, so this isn't a story about gay-bashing)

Yes, some of the girls aren't the brightest students, but they are still people. Some of them are definitely stuck-up, but that's just a complex so that they feel better about themselves. They are actually pretty sad and depressed, which comes out as mean-spirited. Remember, they think you hate them, just how you think they hate you.

As for it being a sport? It's a sport. If the squad didn't compete in any cheerleading competitions, then they aren't really playing the sport. Cheering at games is more like a requirement that they have to do, but the real passion is in the competitions between squads. Sure, it seems like a silly show, but it's actually really damn hard.

I also earned the MVP award of the squad. It's not a very impressive trophy to look at, but it is the ultimate victory over hatred and mastery of patience and forgiveness for me, and no award, diploma, degree, or recognition that I have earned comes close to being more important.

 

[IxionIndustries]

I find them extremely annoying and stereotypical. Sure, they're great to look at, but can you manage that without picking up a pair of 'noculars or getting slapped? Also, they always tend to be mean bitches who label themselves as "Popular".

 

[Aurora219]

You don't think weightlifting is a sport do you?

How the Hell is weightlifting not a sport?

And yes, cheerleaders are sexy.

There is no strategy involved. It's just who can lift more. A sport requires both your mind and body. Weightlifting does indeed need physical prowess to do, but no cognitive ability.

You say that, but then think of your average footballer.

EDIT: Subject. Right. Nah, doesn't do it for me. I'm the kind of guy who goes for ye olde glasses, brown hair, quiet girl.

 

[Taylorcrw]

Its funny, my friend just became a cheerleader and now she seems very unintelligent now.

 

[Evilbunny]

There is no strategy involved. It's just who can lift more. A sport requires both your mind and body. Weightlifting does indeed need physical prowess to do, but no cognitive ability.

Clearly you've never actually performed any weightlifting. There's a hell of a lot more to it than what you're claiming. It's not only strength, it's also a lot of technique. Getting the weight up is only part of it, positioning the body beneath it, working out how to best work it up without completely exhausting your muscles, knowing when to perform a heavy lift, working out when you can push it and when you can't.

There's a lot to it, seriously.

I admit, I only did weightlifting for about a year my first year of college and from what I experienced there was technique involved but compared to the sport of say, wrestling, where there are over thousands of moves and techniques to learn and master there is relatively little strategy involved. However, judging from your post you seem to have done a lot more than I have, so I guess you'd know better.

 

[Cheesus333]

Dancing is a sport...

Try trainspotting. Can't go wrong.