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Solene is very active on X now: https://x.com/SoleneMazingueSolene is proposing a #MeTooSkating
Solene is very active on X now: https://x.com/SoleneMazingueSolene is proposing a #MeTooSkating
It’s all so very sad, I really hope she is getting professional help and support. Brave woman.Solene is very active on X now: https://x.com/SoleneMazingue
Here’s the gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareSlightly off-topic here, but this week's New York Times magazine has an excellent investigative article on the sport of cheerleading, and how athlete abuse can become normalized and downplayed when addressing it might mean less $$$ for those in charge. Cheerleading isn't an Olympic sport and as the article shows its federations are privately owned, but there are more than a few parallels with skating.
How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular
For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.www.nytimes.com
(apologies if this is paywalled, if anyone with a NYT subscription is able to post a gift link that would be much appreciated)
Yup, cheer is another “if you’re good at this, you can get a college scholarship” things that identifies promising candidates before puberty. It needs age restrictions, but doesn't have them. Girls as young as 11 can be on high school level cheer teams as long as they attend a combined junior/senior high school.Slightly off-topic here, but this week's New York Times magazine has an excellent investigative article on the sport of cheerleading, and how athlete abuse can become normalized and downplayed when addressing it might mean less $$$ for those in charge. Cheerleading isn't an Olympic sport and as the article shows its federations are privately owned, but there are more than a few parallels with skating.
How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular
For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.www.nytimes.com
(apologies if this is paywalled, if anyone with a NYT subscription is able to post a gift link that would be much appreciated)
Yup, cheer is another “if you’re good at this, you can get a college scholarship” things that identifies promising candidates before puberty. It needs age restrictions, but doesn't have them. Girls as young as 11 can be on high school level cheer teams as long as they attend a combined junior/senior high school.
When I had my photography company, I would shoot both cheerleading and dance and both of those had very young kids doing things that I didn't think were age-appropriate. Like 3 year olds dancing with a "sexy" costume and heavy makeup.I was a cheerleader for 6 years in jr and sr high school. The whole sport has just gotten weird. (In my day.....)
Oh, anyone who ever watched "Dance Moms" in its heyday knows exactly what you mean.When I had my photography company, I would shoot both cheerleading and dance and both of those had very young kids doing things that I didn't think were age-appropriate. Like 3 year olds dancing with a "sexy" costume and heavy makeup.
If people have seen Little Miss Sunshine, the little girl's routine is a parody of what competitive dance is like but not as far off as the film would have you believe.
Remember that whole two seasons of children with big age gaps skating to big spender for a musical theme or this sports love of minors skating to Roxanne in red dresses. It's present in skating too.I haven't seen quite that level of age inappropriate stuff in skating, but that's probably because most coaches at all levels prefer old school warhorses or think anything too pop/sexy will get panned by the judges. You even see it in Senior. When I do see it, it's usually in synchro and/or ISI.
Does anyone remember when, in Canada, and I think in he US, young skaters competed in a category that was maybe called "Interpretive". They would play a piece of music, separate the skaters off the ice, and bring them out one at a time to skate to the music. Some kids just did spirals but some kids showed a natural ability to come up with their own movements that were creative and expressed the music. Unfortunately, at least in our section, sometimes inappropriate music was chosen and kids were thrusting and gyrating on the ice. I recall thinking at some of these if anyone walked in uninformed they would think this was really sexually exploitive.
Certainly there are programs like that that make me uncomfortable, but I wouldn't say it's quite the same level. Yes, the music is beyond inappropriate, but the costumes and choreography seems to entirely misinterpret the music.Remember that whole two seasons of children with big age gaps skating to big spender for a musical theme or this sports love of minors skating to Roxanne in red dresses. It's present in skating too.
I give a pass to skaters who don't speak the language. When my daughter was a HS exchange student in Italy, she lived with a family that didn't speak English at all. The family liked to sing along with the radio on car rides, and she was pretty horrified to hear mom and dad joyfully chanting along with some particularly explicit rap, but they had no idea what the rapper was saying.