Act Like The Role Model That You Are

Cheerleaders are one of the most looked up to group of people in our society. Every little girl wants to be a cheerleader when she grows up. This forces cheerleaders as a whole to present a united force. Not all cheerleaders are the same. Some are tall. Some are short. Some are skinny. Some are bigger. They can be blonde, brunette, or a red-head. They can cheer All-Star or High school. Everyone is different and we need to let the younger generation know this. You don't have to look like Barbie to be a cheerleader. Personally my favorite "Cheerleb" is Kira Shutt because she looks like someone I would be best friends with. Kira's personality (from what I've seen on Cheerleaders and her twitter account) seems to mesh well with my personality. She is afraid of losing her spot on her squad, she is always struggling with some aspect, and she has a really awesome VW bus. She isn't deathly thin, but rather has a healthy body. I see her tweets and I just love how down to earth she is. I see some cheerleader’s tweets and they are so shallow, talking only about tanning, Starbucks, bows, and Nike pros. They talk down to cheerleaders that don't do their kind of cheerleading and wear their preferred type of practice wear. Personally I am pale as a ghost because I am too busy to tan, am too poor to buy Starbucks (as much as I love it), have never owned a pair of Nike pros because I can't bring myself to buy a pair of $30 shorts, I only have 5 bows, and I have never even seen a pair of nfinities. Does that make me less of a cheerleader than you? Of course not. It just means we're different.  If cheerleaders keep focusing on these superficial things then they are going to give the next generation of cheerleaders the same ideas. These cheerleaders on twitter (and I follow over 200 of them) force their school work into the back seat while cheerleading takes the driver’s seat. How are these girls going to be functioning parts of society if they don't go to school? Little girls are looking up to you and thinking, "If they do cheerleading and don't go to school, I won't go to school either." Little girls see how you tan all the time and are going to do it too. Tanning causes skin cancer, and you doing it all the time is telling the people who look up to you that it's ok. Your tweets are always talking about how you hate the "basics" and "peasants". Cheerleading is a great sport, but it doesn't make you better than people who don't cheer. I have never met a group of cheerleaders who think so highly of themselves and so little of others. You really should be ashamed. Cheerleaders have a tremendous amount of power, and that requires a great amount of responsibility. If so many people are looking up to you and trying to emulate you, you need to act like someone you would be proud to follow yourself. If you decide that you are to "fat" and develop an eating disorder, there are hundreds of people looking up to you and it can cause them to follow in your footsteps. If you bully people, those who strive to be like you are going to bully people too. If you have a bad attitude towards non-cheerleaders, little girls are going to start to be standoff-ish to non-cheerleaders. Your actions have profound reactions and if you are not careful about how you carry yourself, you can be the reason someone loses their life whether it be to an eating disorder, bullying, or something else. Cheerleaders are always referencing Mean Girls, well think of the ending
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You are creating the next generation of "mean girls". Is that something you want to do?