But in what capacity are they present, and how does
the NFL's treat women? Where do ladies come into play
in this mainstay of American culture? Why do they get
to be seen on the sidelines as a bunch of dimwitted
go-go dancers, reduced, basically, to a pair of
bouncing breasts who egg on the muscle-laden athletes?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42470

Let's get rid of cheerleading

Shmuley Boteach


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a nationally syndicated radio host daily from
2-5 p.m. EST on the Liberty Broadcasting Network, and was named by
Talkers magazine as one of America's 100 most important talk-radio
hosts. A best-selling author of 15 books, his latest work is "Hating
Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex"
(ReganBooks-HarperCollins). To learn more about Rabbi Boteach, please
visit his website. www.shmuley.com




As the NFL season moves inexorably toward its climax with the Super
Bowl, it is time that we revisit the strange phenomenon of the
scantily-clad, female cheerleader. For who would have thought that 50
years after feminism, women would feel no offense when they are reduced
to go-go dancers in underwear cheering a quarterback's touchdown pass?

When I get into one of my rants about the place of women in society,
where they have been relegated to in the past and where they are now
vs. where they should be, I find myself mourning the lost
opportunities. I become frustrated by the corruption of femininity in
our society. Look at the ultimate arena of male prominence - the
sports world.

From the early days of the Greek Olympics, men have dominated athletic

pursuits while women, until recently, have been relegated to the
viewing stands. With great pains, women have fought to open the field
of sports to women and to gain the respect they deserve as proficient
and talented athletes. This is, undoubtedly, a real accomplishment.

If the goal all along had been to assert the power of women so as to
disseminate the idea that women have an elevating influence to impart
to the world, we would find that even the heavily male world of sports
would have been impacted. In an overwhelming testosterone-laden field,
however, where do we see women? Take football, for example: No one is
asking women to slap on some shoulder pads and get out there on the
field with the likes of Tom Brady, but we are certainly aware that they
are there.

But in what capacity are they present, and how does the NFL's treat
women? Where do ladies come into play in this mainstay of American
culture? Why do they get to be seen on the sidelines as a bunch of
dimwitted go-go dancers, reduced, basically, to a pair of bouncing
breasts who egg on the muscle-laden athletes?

CBS, one of the main networks that airs football games, has a network
rejoin they often use as they come back to a game after a commercial
break. Amazingly, it does not show a football player. Instead, it shows
cutaway shots of cheerleaders, with a few pictures of these overly
made-up dolls jumping up and down, and then one shot - I kid you not
- of a woman's behind. A five-second close up of a woman's rear end
- that is a commercial for football? The connection? Must be esoteric
because I am not sure how the one illustrates the other.

This is truly a shame because sports arenas are an ideal case to note
how the very presence of women can impact the surrounding environment.
After all, look at the behavior of men who attend English football
(that's soccer to us Yanks) matches. They are notoriously violent.
There have been tragic stories about the crowds getting out of hand and
about rival fans brutally assaulting one another.

Additionally, if you have not been to a match yourself, let me tell you
that you had better not be prudish or refined because you are going to
hear an earful of outrageous screaming that even the crassest NFL fan
might find blush-worthy! When you go to a British soccer game, you run
the risk of being trampled to death by the usual army of drunken
animals.

And why are they such embarrassing brutes? Search the stands the next
time you watch British football on television and you will scarcely
ever find a single woman (assuming you can stay awake for the
predictable nil-nil final score, international soccer being the one
exception to the rule that men are goal-oriented).

Some might propose that this riotous behavior is a product of
socio-economic factors in that English football tickets are cheap -
which means that the men in attendance are often working class or out
of work altogether. I do not doubt that these sorts of contributors
impact the behavior one sees at an English football match, but how does
that explain the crowds at American football matches?

Tickets to an NFL game are not cheap, which means that we are not
dealing with a crowd of aggressive and frustrated out-of-work men who
need to let off a bit of steam. Yet at Oakland Raiders' games alone
there have been incidents that have escalated as far as stabbings. It
is not even a matter of rival fans getting out of control since,
according to Gary Schellenberg of the Alameda County Sheriff's
Department, 95 percent of the violence at Raider games involve Raider
fan on Raider fan.

Apart from crazed Raider fans, however, most American football fans
really only run the risk of having their eardrums burst by
earthquake-like burps from bare-chested brutes on a Heineken drip.
Still, where are male fans the best behaved? Even amid the disgusting
brawl that broke out between the Indian Pacers and the Detroit Pistons,
by and large, it is at basketball games, because they attract the
largest percentage of female fans.

Men are simply more civilized around women. Flatulence jokes are common
among men who can think of nothing funnier than passing gas around each
other and guessing "whoever smelt it dealt it." But when's the last
time a man walked over to an attractive woman at a bar and asked her to
"pull my finger"?

Just think about it: Even in this very masculine world of sports, even
when there are scantily clad women to cater to the lascivious nature of
men, the very presence of women in the stands can at least curb the
more animalistic nature of man - the violent, aggressive traits that
helped men survive before civilization developed. If, under even these
adverse circumstances, women can have a positive influence, think of
what they might be able to accomplish if they band together to assert
their value and insist upon the respect they deserve, rather than
pandering to the baser expectations that have become popular.

And speaking of catering to the basest of instincts, I found it
pathetic to see the replays of Brandi Chastain who celebrated her
teams' victory in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Championship by
taking off her shirt. It was every couch potato's dream: dirt, sports,
women and breasts. I can not tell you how many men I met who said that
this sort of fantasy is what inspires them to watch women's sports in
the first place, the thought that at any moment, the female players may
rip off their clothing and jump all over each other.

So much for an appreciation of athleticism. But what do we expect when
the women who work their way into the spotlight at major sporting
events are doing so in their underwear when they parade around as
cheerleaders? How could this possibly be an ennobling role? Only a
society that harbors an utter lack of modesty and a constant debasing
of the commodity and dignity of the female form could ever produce a
women who would think nothing of whipping off her shirt on national
television as Chastain did.

Yes, friends, it is time, finally, to get rid of the cheerleaders and
condition men to respect women rather than merely be titillated by
them.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42470

Let's get rid of cheerleading

Shmuley Boteach


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a nationally syndicated radio host daily from
2-5 p.m. EST on the Liberty Broadcasting Network, and was named by
Talkers magazine as one of America's 100 most important talk-radio
hosts. A best-selling author of 15 books, his latest work is "Hating
Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex"
(ReganBooks-HarperCollins). To learn more about Rabbi Boteach, please
visit his website. www.shmuley.com




As the NFL season moves inexorably toward its climax with the Super
Bowl, it is time that we revisit the strange phenomenon of the
scantily-clad, female cheerleader. For who would have thought that 50
years after feminism, women would feel no offense when they are reduced
to go-go dancers in underwear cheering a quarterback's touchdown pass?

When I get into one of my rants about the place of women in society,
where they have been relegated to in the past and where they are now
vs. where they should be, I find myself mourning the lost
opportunities. I become frustrated by the corruption of femininity in
our society. Look at the ultimate arena of male prominence - the
sports world.

From the early days of the Greek Olympics, men have dominated athletic

pursuits while women, until recently, have been relegated to the
viewing stands. With great pains, women have fought to open the field
of sports to women and to gain the respect they deserve as proficient
and talented athletes. This is, undoubtedly, a real accomplishment.

If the goal all along had been to assert the power of women so as to
disseminate the idea that women have an elevating influence to impart
to the world, we would find that even the heavily male world of sports
would have been impacted. In an overwhelming testosterone-laden field,
however, where do we see women? Take football, for example: No one is
asking women to slap on some shoulder pads and get out there on the
field with the likes of Tom Brady, but we are certainly aware that they
are there.

But in what capacity are they present, and how does the NFL's treat
women? Where do ladies come into play in this mainstay of American
culture? Why do they get to be seen on the sidelines as a bunch of
dimwitted go-go dancers, reduced, basically, to a pair of bouncing
breasts who egg on the muscle-laden athletes?

CBS, one of the main networks that airs football games, has a network
rejoin they often use as they come back to a game after a commercial
break. Amazingly, it does not show a football player. Instead, it shows
cutaway shots of cheerleaders, with a few pictures of these overly
made-up dolls jumping up and down, and then one shot - I kid you not
- of a woman's behind. A five-second close up of a woman's rear end
- that is a commercial for football? The connection? Must be esoteric
because I am not sure how the one illustrates the other.

This is truly a shame because sports arenas are an ideal case to note
how the very presence of women can impact the surrounding environment.
After all, look at the behavior of men who attend English football
(that's soccer to us Yanks) matches. They are notoriously violent.
There have been tragic stories about the crowds getting out of hand and
about rival fans brutally assaulting one another.

Additionally, if you have not been to a match yourself, let me tell you
that you had better not be prudish or refined because you are going to
hear an earful of outrageous screaming that even the crassest NFL fan
might find blush-worthy! When you go to a British soccer game, you run
the risk of being trampled to death by the usual army of drunken
animals.

And why are they such embarrassing brutes? Search the stands the next
time you watch British football on television and you will scarcely
ever find a single woman (assuming you can stay awake for the
predictable nil-nil final score, international soccer being the one
exception to the rule that men are goal-oriented).

Some might propose that this riotous behavior is a product of
socio-economic factors in that English football tickets are cheap -
which means that the men in attendance are often working class or out
of work altogether. I do not doubt that these sorts of contributors
impact the behavior one sees at an English football match, but how does
that explain the crowds at American football matches?

Tickets to an NFL game are not cheap, which means that we are not
dealing with a crowd of aggressive and frustrated out-of-work men who
need to let off a bit of steam. Yet at Oakland Raiders' games alone
there have been incidents that have escalated as far as stabbings. It
is not even a matter of rival fans getting out of control since,
according to Gary Schellenberg of the Alameda County Sheriff's
Department, 95 percent of the violence at Raider games involve Raider
fan on Raider fan.

Apart from crazed Raider fans, however, most American football fans
really only run the risk of having their eardrums burst by
earthquake-like burps from bare-chested brutes on a Heineken drip.
Still, where are male fans the best behaved? Even amid the disgusting
brawl that broke out between the Indian Pacers and the Detroit Pistons,
by and large, it is at basketball games, because they attract the
largest percentage of female fans.

Men are simply more civilized around women. Flatulence jokes are common
among men who can think of nothing funnier than passing gas around each
other and guessing "whoever smelt it dealt it." But when's the last
time a man walked over to an attractive woman at a bar and asked her to
"pull my finger"?

Just think about it: Even in this very masculine world of sports, even
when there are scantily clad women to cater to the lascivious nature of
men, the very presence of women in the stands can at least curb the
more animalistic nature of man - the violent, aggressive traits that
helped men survive before civilization developed. If, under even these
adverse circumstances, women can have a positive influence, think of
what they might be able to accomplish if they band together to assert
their value and insist upon the respect they deserve, rather than
pandering to the baser expectations that have become popular.

And speaking of catering to the basest of instincts, I found it
pathetic to see the replays of Brandi Chastain who celebrated her
teams' victory in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Championship by
taking off her shirt. It was every couch potato's dream: dirt, sports,
women and breasts. I can not tell you how many men I met who said that
this sort of fantasy is what inspires them to watch women's sports in
the first place, the thought that at any moment, the female players may
rip off their clothing and jump all over each other.

So much for an appreciation of athleticism. But what do we expect when
the women who work their way into the spotlight at major sporting
events are doing so in their underwear when they parade around as
cheerleaders? How could this possibly be an ennobling role? Only a
society that harbors an utter lack of modesty and a constant debasing
of the commodity and dignity of the female form could ever produce a
women who would think nothing of whipping off her shirt on national
television as Chastain did.

Yes, friends, it is time, finally, to get rid of the cheerleaders and
condition men to respect women rather than merely be titillated by
them.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42470

Let's get rid of cheerleading

As the NFL season moves inexorably toward its climax with the Super
Bowl,

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42470

Let's get rid of cheerleading

Shmuley Boteach


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a nationally syndicated radio host daily from
2-5 p.m. EST on the Liberty Broadcasting Network, and was named by
Talkers magazine as one of America's 100 most important talk-radio
hosts. A best-selling author of 15 books, his latest work is "Hating
Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex"
(ReganBooks-HarperCollins). To learn more about Rabbi Boteach, please
visit his website. www.shmuley.com