Because they haven’t managed to kill cheer squads already, social justice warriors are simply calling their beauty tips racist and, um, sexist.
The University of Washington’s cheerleading team, which is holding tryouts later this week, has pulled a poster from its Facebook page with tips for prospective cheerleaders after it drew a social-media backlash, The Seattle Times reports.
What the squad sees as visual consistency and decorum – “bronze, beachy glow” and “flattering eye shadow” but not “too much makeup” or raccoon eyes, and no tattoos or ponytails – its critics see as imperialism:
“One of the first things that comes mind is objectification and idealization of Western beauty, which are values I would like to believe the University doesn’t want to perpetuate,” [Jazmine Perez, director of programming for student government,] said. …
