Cheerleading why the bad rap

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Maybe some cheerleaders are snobby and stuck-up but I'm not and my whole squad are the coolest peeps alive. But what we do and who we are should'nt be classified into one whole stereotype.

Cheerleaders are not snobs. Some of my best friends happen to be cheerleaders! I think the cheerleaders are more fun to watch then the sport itself! Cheerleaders have to have good grades to be on the team so that just about proves that they are not dumb! Well thats it! Is Cheerleading a sport? Just three Chloes? Thanks so much for being with us.

I was not a very good cheerleader, but I definitely - I made the team. And that was the best part of probably my cheerleading tenure. SIMON: One thing you made clear in this book is that cheerleading is a genuine athletic and demanding competitive athletic activity, as much as basketball or, for that matter, ballet.

In fact, cheerleading has such an athletic component to it that kids, in practice, what they've found, are just only second in getting concussions to football players. Cheerleading in the past probably 20 years has become just incredibly competitive, especially all-star cheerleading.

And so in the book, I wanted to make sure that I showed and gave tremendous amount of respect to the stunts and to the athletes on those teams. SIMON: Help us understand the antagonism - I think fairly, at least, verbal antagonism - that Shade seems to feel towards what she infers to be the mothers of most cheerleaders.

KRISCHER: So I think that, you know, cheerleading unfortunately gets an incredibly bad rap because of probably the way that it started as something that - you're cheering for boys. It started as something that's just on the sidelines. And Shade's mother is a real feminist. And she is an artist, and she's friends with a lot of artists. And for Shade - she was not raised as somebody who would, say, go along with the herd.

And so, you know, she looks at some of these women the way that her mother would look at some of these women, which are not individual or not having their own personalities, when, of course, that's really not the truth at all. In fact, there's many cheer moms that I've met and girls and - you know, who are cheerleaders, who just have incredible personalities.

And they're just as interested in being on a sport and being on a team as any other athlete. And so, you know, having control over her body really just gives her just an incredible sense of power. And she finds that she's able to sort of be herself.

She doesn't have to just be connected to her best friend, Jadis. She doesn't have to be just in the shadow of her mom and her mom's feminism.