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It's the latest feminist/SJW outrage - advising girls on how to look good at cheerleading tryouts.
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Blowback ensued, with critics arguing that the image objectified women while perpetuating sexist, Anglo-centric beauty ideals.
“Thanks UW for setting women back 100 years!” a Twitter user wrote.
“I can’t believe this is real,” Jazmine Perez, the director of programming for the university’s student government, told the Seattle Times by email. “One of the first things that comes mind is objectification and idealization of Western beauty, which are values I would like to believe the University doesn’t want to perpetuate. As a student of color who looks nothing like the student in the poster, this feels very exclusive.”
It isn't about looking good at tryouts, it's sending a message that to look good, you have to look like the "all-American Girl Next Door".
And by "all-American girl next door" you mean she's pretty and white, right? I think, for the critics, it is mostly about being angry that they aren't hot enough to be cheerleaders. But that's kind of embarrassing, so they'll play up the race angle more.
And by "all-American girl next door" you mean she's pretty and white, right? I think, for the critics, it is mostly about being angry that they aren't hot enough to be cheerleaders. But that's kind of embarrassing, so they'll play up the race angle more.
It's not just pretty and white. It's a very narrow definition of beauty, specifically, has to be a white blond, "Anglo-centric" woman, which presumes blue eyes. Now, most American women, even American white women, are not blond and blue eyed. I also have issue when they do this in Latin America when they promote the average Argentinian and Uruguayan as the ideal beauty standard when the rest of Latin America is far darker and more Asian/Mongoloid looking than Argentina and Uruguay which are about 90% ethnic European each
I forget which clothing brand it was either Aeropostale, American Eagle, or Hollister, one of them was under fire for doing the same exact thing. They deliberately hired staff who had typical Scandinavian features and promoted the brand as "all-American". Vast majority of Americans do not look Swedish, even Swedes don't all look bright blond with blue eyes. It's absurd promoting the ideal beauty standard to be, literally, the smallest amount of people in the world.
It's not just pretty and white. It's a very narrow definition of beauty, specifically, has to be a white blond, "Anglo-centric" woman, which presumes blue eyes. Now, most American women, even American white women, are not blond and blue eyed. I also have issue when they do this in Latin America when they promote the average Argentinian and Uruguayan as the ideal beauty standard when the rest of Latin America is far darker and more Asian/Mongoloid looking than Argentina and Uruguay which are about 90% ethnic European each
I forget which clothing brand it was either Aeropostale, American Eagle, or Hollister, one of them was under fire for doing the same exact thing. They deliberately hired staff who had typical Scandinavian features and promoted the brand as "all-American". Vast majority of Americans do not look Swedish, even Swedes don't all look bright blond with blue eyes. It's absurd promoting the ideal beauty standard to be, literally, the smallest amount of people in the world.
No kidding. There's lots of ways to be beautiful, but you'd never know it by looking at cheerleader squads.
Learn how to play the game and you won't be so offended; you know self-discipline, hard work etc.
Tell that to affirmative action supporters please.
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These people are a never ending source of comedy. 
