It’s no secret that our society has become increasingly sexualized over the years.
Parents are finding it increasingly difficult to protect their children’s innocence.
This is especially true when it comes to young girls, whose innocence is being put at risk as a result of the oversexualization they are facing in their everyday lives.
Unfortunately, one example of this can be found in the recent incident involving high school cheerleaders from Miami, Florida, who were seen wearing risqué lingerie-style uniforms for a school function.
In light of this disturbing footage, we must ask ourselves if we are truly glorifying teenage pregnancies by allowing such behavior to go unchecked.
To say that these uniforms were inappropriate would be an understatement.
When we think about high school events such as sports games or assemblies, we expect there to be at least some form of dress code or modesty being exercised.
The scantily-clad girls were wearing blue and black outfits that looked like something straight out of Victoria’s Secret fashion show – complete with lacy lingerie, boots and garters – while performing a dance routine on the football field in full view of their peers and faculty members.
To make matters worse, the choreographed dance routine was composed mainly of hip gyrations.
It’s even more concerning to think about how many underage students may have been involved in this performance when most of them should still be considered minors at this age.
Needless to say, viewers were understandably appalled by this footage and voiced their disapproval online; one user commented that they’d never let their high school daughter wear such an outfit outside the house and another labelled it “borderline pedo”.
Meanwhile, Teddy Lee expressed his outrage in a much harsher manner: he said he was planning on assaulting a few administrators after seeing what had gone down at the game and questioned how it could have possibly gotten past so many parents without raising any red flags or concerns about modesty or decency.
High school cheerleading uniforms should always remain modest yet tasteful and appropriate for teenagers rather than resembling something out of an adult movie set.
This begs an important question; are we glorifying teenage pregnancies by permitting young girls to behave in such a way?
This incident certainly suggests that children learn from what they live – meaning here that these adolescents will likely carry over some of these same behaviors into adulthood if nothing is done to set positive examples for them now while they’re still young enough to learn those lessons.
Parents need to take responsibility for making sure what their children wear complies with set standards regardless of whether they’re attending school functions or not.
It’s up to us as adults not only to protect our youth from any further sexualization but also ensure that current standards don’t condone or promote teenage pregnancy as something desirable or acceptable within our society today.
Let us all strive towards promoting healthy attitudes towards sexuality within our youth now before it becomes too late.