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Welcome to 2025, wherever perfectly everything is simply a occupation (at slightest to someone).
This time, it's the caller additions to the Minnesota Vikings' cheer squad that person radical throwing a hissy fit. And who could beryllium upset astir this, you ask? I'll fto you instrumentality a guess...
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If you guessed radical with things similar "MAGA" and "SAVE AMERICA NOW" successful their X bios, you'd beryllium correct. Let maine explain: This year, the Minnesota Vikings NFL squad added 2 antheral cheerleaders to its squad. Their names are Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn.
Some conservatives person chosen Blaize and Louie arsenic examples of "woke"-ness gone excessively acold and lumped them successful with their vitriol for transgender women participating successful women's sports. This idiosyncratic called it "men overtaking women's arenas" and said that their cheerleading spots "could person and SHOULD have, gone to a woman."
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She besides wrote, "I'm truthful done with this authorities JFC" with Blaize's squad headshot.
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Someone tweeted a video starring Louie with the squad and wrote, "As if you needed different crushed to debar the NFL and Minnesota."
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Even Kevin Sorbo, a Minnesotan histrion who calls himself the "first cancel civilization victim" successful Hollywood, weighed in. "I've been a Vikings instrumentality each my life... sigh. I request a caller squad now," helium posted, on with a video of Blaize successful the squad dressing room.
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Back successful 2018, Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies became the first antheral cheerleaders successful NFL history. Male cheerleaders are acold from a caller thing, though, arsenic respective radical pointed out. In fact, cheerleading utilized to beryllium an all-male sport. Here's a photograph of a antheral cheer squad whooping a Maryland squad successful 1937:
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There are adjacent immoderate familiar faces who served arsenic cheerleaders earlier ascending to the highest bureau successful the country. Here's George W. Bush arsenic a precocious schoolhouse cheer captain:
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And here's Ronald Reagan arsenic a assemblage cheerleader:
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This idiosyncratic wrote that it's conscionable a little hypocritical to beryllium outraged by antheral cheerleaders portion voting for men who were cheerleaders.
People who weren't bothered by the antheral cheerleaders took to the replies to probe those who were. "You're going to debar the NFL due to the fact that of a cheerleader?" this idiosyncratic asked.
One idiosyncratic tweeted, "the camera is not adjacent connected them capable to beryllium upset, yall conscionable insecure if you're huffy astir this."
"I'm a Seahawks instrumentality and each I springiness a fuck astir is making the playoffs," 1 shot instrumentality wrote. "Real fans don't attraction astir this / Only blimpish weirdos."
And lastly, this relationship wrote that "Y'all conscionable request thing to beryllium huffy about." Truer words were ne'er spoken.
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Anyway, Blaize and Louie person had what seems to beryllium a beauteous stellar cognition astir each of this. Here's what they posted connected Instagram pursuing the online hate:
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