A Facebook post with guidance on what to wear to Husky cheer-and-dance trials went viral this week, but not everyone agreed on what message it sent.
This week’s Facebook post offering tips about prepping for Husky cheerleader tryouts became a kind of Rorschach inkblot test of what college cheerleading is all about.
Though it made just a brief appearance on the University of Washington’s cheer-and-dance-team Facebook page Monday night — with guidance about what to wear to team tryouts — it was met with strong reaction from those who said it objectified women and suggested the ideal candidate is a beachy blonde, and from those who said the backlash was much ado about nothing.