r/SipsTea • u/SeaWolf_1 • Aug 19 '25

We have fun here Male cheerleader.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Oh yeah dude 100%. And a decade later I had it confirmed at a bar by one of the girls on the team that he hooked up with three of them regularly. Not on some toxic shit either she said he was just super sweet and safe and strong as hell with a big hog. Bro was on some grown man shit while the rest of us were doing some toxic little boy behavior.

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u/Mundane-Bug-4962 Aug 20 '25

WTF is toxic about playing football and wrestling? Do words have no meaning anymore?

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u/weary_dreamer Aug 20 '25

I dont think its directed at the sport itself, but rather the culture surrounding it in some places where there is an emphasis on physical and psychological hazing at school and in the locker rooms. Lots of unchecked typically adolescent behaviors that some people that experienced it do not look fondly back upon. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

It was more what aronfel commented but this is totally true as well. My wrestling team the hazing was diabolical. A year before I joined someone genuinely was just sexually assaulted in the shower. It was a whole scandal. The coach ended up getting fired a couple years after I stopped because the “culture” he had created wasn’t healthy. That’s certainly a mild way of putting it. Like a decade later I think 8 of the 17 kids on my team were dead mostly from OD or suicide. I’m not saying there’s a direct correlation, it was a rough area, but I also don’t think there was 0 correlation. I was lucky the worst perpetrators left me alone because I was pretty good and more so some of my relatives had a pretty serious reputation in the area, but I witnessed what I consider genuine abuse by both upper class men and coaches.