http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Connecticut-cheerleaders-want-uniforms-with-more?urn=highschool-274505
Here's enough of an excerpt to get the gist:
Earlier this year, cheerleaders in one Florida district had to get special permission to wear their skirts on game day, because the uniforms were too skimpy for a new dress code. In a fascinating twist, last week cheerleaders in Connecticut begged school officials to help make their uniforms less skimpy.
According to the Connecticut Post and NBC Connecticut, Heidi Medina, the captain of Bridgeport Central's cheerleading squad, stood before the Bridgeport Board of Education in her team's standard uniform, which bares athletes midriffs and uses either small shorts or baggy sweatpants as bottoms, to make a statement that it was inappropriate.
[Related: Team welcomes first cheerleaders since 1934 ]
Medina and fellow seniors insist that the Central uniforms do not meet regulations that require cheerleader uniforms to cover an athlete's midsection when they stand at attention.
"It really hurts our self esteem," Bridgeport Central senior Ariana Mesaros told the Board of Education, according to the Post. "I am embarrassed to stand up here dressed like this. Is this really how you want Bridgeport to be represented?"
As noted by NBC Connecticut, the Bridgeport cheerleaders' plea comes on the heels of a recent study of college cheerleaders, which found that college cheerleaders whose uniforms exposed midriffs faced a significantly higher risk of developing eating disorders.
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Dear Miss Mesaros: your self esteem is hurt? You're a cheerleader for Chrissake! Not a Supreme Court Justice. That's why we have cute young girls in skimpy skirts and old ugly farts in black muu muus. As to your question, is this how we want Bridgeport represented: hell, yeah!
As for the "recent study" I hope my tax $ did not fund a study so blindingly obvious as this -- a "study" with a pre-ordained result. Now, repeat after me: correlation does not imply causality. Repeat as needed to get it into your head.
Studies show that repeated exposure to idiotic studies give higher IQ people ulcers. I think my health, and public health in general, are being attacked by these silly studies. Studies prove it! So what's more important, your self-esteem or my physical health?
