High School Cheerleaders Fight Back When School Tells Them They Can't Wear Uniforms After Boy Gets An Erection

Story out of Provo, Utah:

A group of high school cheerleaders in Utah are speaking out after they were told not to wear their cheerleading outfits to school because one boy found it distracting.

According to a report from People, the 44 members of the cheerleading squad at Timpview High School in the heavily Mormon land of Provo, Utah, typically wear their uniforms to class on game days to show their school spirit. But that practice came to an end after one boy complained to his mom that they were causing him to have “impure thoughts.” Let’s take a second to really imagine the kind of fucked up purity culture would make a kid complain to his mom about that.

Rather than explain to her son that his impure thoughts are his problem and not that of 44 spirited girls, the mom emailed an administrator, who told the cheerleading coach, who instructed the squad not to wear their uniforms to school this past Friday.

According to anonymous acrobats (whose identities were protected for fear of backlash in their judgmental communities), school administrators called a meeting to figure out what to do about this pickle, but it proved a veritable Gordian knot of competing values. Then an assistant principal made the call, possibly unilaterally: The embarrassing boner of the one outweighed the school pride of the many.

Most of the cheerleaders were upset about what happened, with one telling PEOPLE, “it’s giving this boy power that when he grows up and does something to a girl, he can blame it on her skirt being too short. It really made me angry. Why should this boy have control over what we wear?” Several of the girls’ parents were also frustrated, calling the situation “nonsense.”

Caught in a PR nightmare, the school released a statement saying it was all a big misunderstanding:

“It’s a misunderstanding between the cheerleading advisor and a member of the school administration who gave her a message about the boy’s concerns,” [school spokesman Caleb] Price tells PEOPLE. “The school was never going to say you can’t wear your uniforms or dress in a certain way.” Cont.

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