Look like this, not that: UW pulls cheerleader-tryout advice after angry backlash
Katherine Long

A University of Washington infographic advising women how to do their makeup and hair for cheer-team trials sparked a social-media backlash Tuesday.

If you’re a woman and want to be on the Husky cheer and dance team, by all means come to tryouts with a “bronze, beachy glow, false lashes, girl about town lipstick, flattering eye shadow.”

Natural and spray tans are encouraged, but don’t flash “dark, smokey eyes” or wear “too much makeup.” Then again, “nude lips,” or hair in a ponytail, is a no-no.

That advice, along with a photo of a white woman with blond hair posing in shorts and a sports bra, was posted on Facebook by the University of Washington cheerleading team Monday night, four days before Husky cheerleader tryouts.

A Facebook backlash began building online immediately, and the infographic — modeled after similar ones posted by Washington State University and Louisiana State University — was removed before 9 a.m. Tuesday.

“I can’t believe this is real,” said UW student Jazmine Perez, director of programming for student government, via email.

“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,” she said. “As a student of color who looks nothing like the student in the poster, this feels very exclusive.”

Said Signe Burchim, a UW senior: “I think it’s really upsetting and kind of disheartening the way it’s basically asking these women who want to try out to perform their femininity — but not too much.” Such a message would never go out to men trying out for a sport, she said.

In a statement, Husky athletics officials said they created the graphic “in response to a high volume of student questions about cheer and dance team tryouts.”

It was removed after the department “determined that some of the details and descriptions provided were inconsistent with the values of the UW spirit program and department of athletics.”

Seattle resident Clay Thompson posted it on his Facebook page “to ensure that the University of Washington addresses the overt racism (I know there’s more, but let’s start there) in the ad.”

He called it “offensive, exclusionary and ignorant. Those are not values of Seattle or the Puget Sound community.”

“False lashes and not nude lips, but don’t wear too much makeup …? So conflicting,” wrote one commenter on Facebook. “And why so much focus on the ‘right’ makeup, hair, clothes and nails for a tryout?”

Another wrote: “When I was a cheerleader we worked so hard to be considered a sport. This infographic goes against what we fought for. We don’t ask the same of any other athletes. And really no ponytails??”

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/look-like-this-not-that-uw-pulls-cheerleader-tryout-advice-after-angry-backlash/

Empty out your closets..
Whip out the burkas b@tch@s & black eyeliner... Because that is ALL you are going to have.
And no matter if he wants you covered up... guess who he really wants?
OR.. Run, not walk to the hair, nail & tanning salons.. This is WAR

some of them don't make sense , false lashes and makeup and no ponytails?


not consistent really with performing athletic activity

Wow so glad I'm not a cheer leader.

Not sure any of the advice is necessary. By college they should know all this. My niece started cheerleading when she was 6 and now at age 13 she competes all over the U.S.. It is a highly competitive sport and if you have to be told what to do in college, you probably won't have what it takes to make the team anyway. It entails a lot more then just looks.

the cheerleaders that run the program make the rules... they want what they want... if a another person was running it, then different rules would appy

how is being inclusive or practical suppressing anyone?

women with t and a showing sell too, however asking women to come in bikinis to a sporting tryout would be equally ridiculous because that has nothing to do with a tryout for a sport,, nothing is being sold there,,,


fit men in g strings sell,,,should basketball tryouts require it?

Sport or not a sport. I don't care. But the point is, this is just another control issue of SJW to suppress women & Western culture.
Women looking like Barbie Dolls sells & they know it.
If people can't look like Barbie. Oh well.. Deal with it.

Okay.. Let's tell NON White women that they can not wear fake eyelashes, or buy hair from Asia or perm (hair relaxer), or wear dreadlocks. Let's try to convince all those track & field and tennis players that they can NOT enjoy being a woman because it is sport.

Would love to see that

But if the men that were wearing the g-strings all weighed 400 lbs and were 4'5" would they make the basketball team?

Like it or not all societies have their own "traditional" nuances.
Maybe in Spain they would prefer "heftier" woman as sexy.

In Oman, maybe even burka cheerleaders.

So as the OP points out, If this college is looking for a certain "look" than thats their right.

its really not about race

a female of any race has no reason to have 'prettied' up status to perform athletic activity,,,,, there is sweat and accidents that don't really make it a practical concern,,,

fake eyelashes is 'extra',, that its an option, who cares,, but that it be recommended makes no sense


no ponytail as an option, also not a problem, but recommending no ponytails, in SPORTS? makes no sense

I have no problem with expecting a fitness level for sports participation, if its realistic and not some rarely attained ideal

but that's different than ponytails and false eyelashes

and I agree its their right, and its their right to change their mind

I don't know, some of those long braided ponytails when whipped around could knock someone out

Yea that SJW retard $hit wouldn't have flown at LSU. The self righteous idiots would've been gator bait

These morons really should get something of substance to complain about.

Hhhaaa...
Tanning. Ponytail . Of course it is about race.

And it is also about control.
Sexism & anti Western culture.

But go right ahead with trying to rationalize the PC & whip out your burka.

No body f@cks with Barbie

except I didn't mention anything about the tanner,

projecting much?

every black female in my family has worn ponytails as well, so what that has to do with race has more to do with stereotypes than reality

Like to see what you look like in pigtails

lol

I'm sure loony would come to mind...

but thanx, I think

Yes..meant it as a compliment

You didn't have to mention the hair color or it hanging loose & flowing around tan/ glowing faces. It is in the article/ OP. And exactly what the SJW are resenting. And trying to stop.


“As a student of color who looks nothing like the student in the poster, this feels very exclusive.”