My grand niece, four year old JR and her father my nephew SR had this remarkable conversation during a session of watching an IPL cricket match.
Simon : Watching IPL with Josephine and she says ‘I want to be one of the cheerleaders’
Simon : Why?
Josephine : Because that’s what the girls do.
Simon : Women also play cricket. They bat, bowl, catch etc in womens’ cricket matches.
Josehphine : In those matches are men cheerleaders?
And she has a point there doesn’t she?
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fair call for sure
Yes, and how apt! I was quite stumped when I got to read the response.
LOL! it’s great.
cut right to the chase little Josephine!
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I have great hopes for that little girl.
Is there anything of ours you will not steal? LOLLOLLOL Look whatthe DallasCowboys have spawned. My goodness. 🙂
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We will steal your popcorn Shackman, and call it quits for your stealing our men and women!
A good question. How come it’s okay for girls to be cheer leaders i.e. blatant eye candy for all the men, while it’s considered quite inappropriate for men to be cheer leaders?
Interestingly, Wikipedia tells me that organised cheer leading started as an all-male activity, but there was a gradual switch until today around 97% of all cheer leaders are female.
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a lot of things switched earlier in the centuries…for sure.
Of course! Just look at New Zealand’s Haka! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw
I’m with Josephine and nick!
Cheerful Monk recently posted..Good for them!
I too am Monk. Please watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw
Now, there’s a girl with brains.
One of these days I shall post about her brawn too. She is quite a girl.
Hi Rummy,
Adorable child. We have a lot to learn from children and I certainly do.
There is nothing wrong with being a cheerleader but she asks a great question: if women play cricket, do men dance to cheers the public too? In America they do, it seems; but women still rule that world :).
Cheers
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