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...hippie grandparent whose children are pushing their girls to achieve and who still just expect the boys to do well. Does this mean I'm a misogynist or a feminist? Greg Jensen, Euless, Texas...
...Hippie grandparent whose children are pushing their girls to achieve and who still just expect the boys to do well. Does this mean I'm a misogynist or a feminist? Greg Jensen, EULESS, TEXAS...
Some requirements for cheerleaders haven't changed. They are still expected to be well-turned-out fashion plates, hair pulled into a tight ponytail, uniform just so. Tans--from a bottle or a tanning salon--are a must. "The girls have to be picture perfect," says Euless cheer sponsor Kelli McDaniel. Monica's mom Daphne Brigham keeps a sharp eye on her daughter at the S.M.U. camp, monitoring her for slips.--and, naturally, finds one. "Didn't we talk about this?" she asks Monica, pulling her aside for a wayward bra strap. "If your top is pink, your...
...price of perfection runs high in dollars too. Cheerleading clothes and camps typically cost about $1,000 a year. That's a problem in poorer schools like Euless. This year only 10 girls auditioned for 16 slots on the team. To ease the financial burden, the school decided to buy uniforms and lend them out. Many junior-high and middle schools, conscious of Texas' conservative values, impose a dress code for uniforms, requiring skirts that fall three inches below the fingertips and tops that cover the stomach and shoulders...
Rivalries within the squads are inevitable--between those with boyfriends and those without, between those with money and those with little, between the flyers and the earthbound, between those who can do a standing backflip and those who can't. Beth Hammack, a Euless cheer sponsor, swears that most of the fights revolve around boys: "Junior-high kids are just hormones running around in tennis shoes, "she says with a knowing look. Then there's the perennial friction from freshman "fishes" lording it over the lowly eighth-graders. "My flyer and me got into it again today," says Breanna, whose...