The cheerleader myth

WHEN I tell people that R.AGE organises a secondary school cheerleading competition every year, they usually give the same, highly-predictable response - “so are the cheerleaders all bimbos?” followed by a juvenile laugh. Yeah, look who’s talking.

Never mind that Cheer has been around for 14 years, and that by now we even have a Team Malaysia that competes internationally at a very high level. To some people (a lot of them, actually), their first instinct will always be to have a laugh.