Girl, 6, thrown off squad over ‘booty’ cheer

The Today Show reports on a 6 year old kicked of a cheerleading team because the mother questioned the point her her daughter make the following cheer: “Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties from left to right!”


As Kathy Lee points out, “It’s the sexualization of our young females from an earlier and earlier [age]. When do parents lose our rights to raise children according to the values that we think are important?”

I agree on Kathy this way. When we over sexualize children, it makes it all to easy for the weak minded to prey on children. It also makes a young girl think her only commodity in life is her body.

Is Fat Acceptance a Cop-Out?

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In my opinion Fat Acceptance is not a cop-out if a size 12/14 refuses to try to become a size 00. I think the whole Fat Acceptance is about refusing to fit into an Advertisers mold.

I don't think people who advocate Fat Acceptance are looking for people who have high blood pressure and diabetes to continue to gain weight.