Awards for the best body parts.
This body part gets a trophy! And this body part gets a trophy!
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I know it’s easy to get overwhelmed and horrified by all the news out there these days. Sometimes you just want to hide beneath a blanket with your teddy bear and a big bag of spicy tacos. I relate, really I do, but I’m going to need you to forget all of that and allow yourself to get overwhelmed and horrified by this particular news story: HERE.
Because I want to write a funny thing about it. And that is more important than your trauma.
The article summary:
A cheerleading coach thought it would be super fun and not at all emotionally scarring to hand out awards TO TEENAGERS for things like “Big Booty”, “Big Boobie” and “String Bean”. (I know I make a lot of things up for the sake of humor, but I am not making this up. You can tell, because it isn’t funny.)
What is funny is to imagine what would have happened to me if, over the course of my career as a dance teacher, I decided to try this ritual out on my own students. There are a few things I could expect:
- I’d get a lot of therapy bills mailed to me and, to be fair, I’d probably need to pay them.
- However I wouldn’t be able to pay them…
