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The squad and the museum say the Dallas cheerleaders are special because they are ambassadors of NFL cheerleading. Moreover, why Dallas cheerleaders and not another NFL team? The Cowboys Cheerleaders (originally called the CowBelles & Beaux) are not the only squad in the NFL (26 of 32 teams have one) and not the oldest (most, like Dallas, were started in the early 1960s but the Green Bay Packers fielded a team in 1957).īut they are certainly the most famous thanks to the Cowboys' assiduous self-promotion: The cheerleaders call themselves "America's Sweethearts," and the players are "America's Team." (The Cowboys last won a Super Bowl in 1996.)
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As it is, something creepy and demeaning is going on," Eagan wrote.
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"But it’s long past time for a worthier dream. Nobody wants to ban cheerleaders, tell dancers what or what not to do, or seem like completely joyless feminist prudes ruining their dreams. I guess I would say, what is their purpose?” Kusnierek told Eagan. But they’re paid like crap, treated terribly, and just so objectified. “Nothing against cheerleaders or dancers. Or should be."Įagan quoted local sports anchor and reporter, Trenni Kusnierek, a veteran of her own high school’s dance team, as questioning the point of sexually suggestive cheerleading teams. So far there's been no outcry or even quizzical public statements from the Me Too movement, which lately calls out what it considers sexual harassment or sexually objectified memes when they appear in pop culture.īut in an opinion piece in the Boston Globe last week, Boston Public Radio co-host Margery Eagan suggested "it might be time to rethink NFL cheerleaders and their barely covered breasts being ogled on the sidelines by drunken men with binoculars. It’s embarrassing for us all. “In those days, girls and women had few options in regard to sports, so cheerleading became an athletic-team activity for them.”īut the collection could provoke a few eye rolls given that the Smithsonian's celebration of sexy cheerleaders comes as a deluge of scandals over sexual harassment in the workplace has toppled scores of powerful men in multiple industries and restarted a national argument about why workplace misconduct persists. “Our collection of cheerleading material dates back to the days before Title IX guaranteed equal access for women to school sports,” says Jane Rogers, associate curator in the museum’s Division of Culture and the Arts, in a prepared statement. The memorabilia will join the museum’s growing collection of cheerleading objects, which include items from the Flaming Flashes and the Kilgore Rangerettes, two influential high school and college dance teams from the 1930s to the present. The timing of when the donation was arranged is unclear but typically these kinds of pop-culture donations are in the works for months if not years. There are no immediate plans to display the new objects, but an exhibition is in development (expected to open in 2020) that will explore American culture and will draw on the museum’s theater, music, sports and entertainment collections, according to museum spokeswoman Laura Duff. Now it also will boast the Cowboys' star-spangled bra tops, fringe vests, hot pants and white cowboy go-go boots, too. The collection will include two original uniforms, one from the 1980s and one from 2016, sets of pompoms, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Barbie dolls, original boots, a copy of the first poster to feature an NFL cheerleading team, and a copy of the original sketch of the innovative uniform. You read that right: America's treasure house of national relics accepted a hoard of memorabilia from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the scantily clad pep squad of "America's Team," at a ceremony Monday at the National Museum of American History in Washington.Ĭheerleaders' accessories, collectibles, team posters dating back to the 1970s and examples of their famous skimpy uniforms will be added to the collection of the museum, already s tuffed to the gills with America's cultural artifacts such as the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Julia Child's kitchen and first ladies' inaugural gowns. Amidst widespread fury about sexual misconduct against women, a squad of buxom women whose job is to be sexy while cheering on a football team is going to be enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution as a "female empowerment organization."