Okay, I promise this will be my last a/n until I post more oneshots but I just have to get this off my chest and this has sort of also become my rant book(sorry to all you readers for that)
I just have to say that I don't care if you disagree, cheerleading is a sport. I will not argue nicely with anyone who disrespects the sport that I have pretty much given up every other aspect of my life for. Most of the arguments people make to say it isn't are either completely uneducated or completely irrelevant/invalid. For example, saying we wear too little clothing. Even if we do, SO FUCKING WHAT? THAT DOESNT CHANGE THE FACT THAT WE SPEND HOURS A DAY WORKING OUR BUTTS OFF!!!! AND STOP WITH THE SLUT-SHAMING! Another argument I usually hear is that we just stand on the sidelines and cheer which is completely false and obviously shows that the person has no idea what cheerleaders do, especially competitive teams. I know this is super petty but I'm so sick of being made to feel like the one thing that actually makes me happy is invalid because a bunch of entitled idiots can't take the literal two minutes it takes to get a basic idea of what cheer actually is before they try to tell you that they know more about the sport than the actual athletes and can decide whether it's a sport or not based on literally nothing but their inflated ego and false assumptions. Cheerleading has been the one thing keeping me sane throughout high school and it's the one thing that actually makes me feel like I'm worth something and like I can actually get somewhere and I feel very strongly about it.
If you want to try to argue with me then go ahead but I'm telling you now I won't pretend to be nice and I'll probably be super rude because if you disrespect my SPORT, you are disrespecting me, and I'm not letting people do that anymore. This is one of the few things I'm confident in and I'm not going to pretend I'm not a bitter old fuck about it just to spare anyone else's feelings.
