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The Cult of The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

2024/7/9
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The hosts discuss the intense training and audition process of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, comparing it to a permanent brand, highlighting the physical and emotional toll it takes on the participants.

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**You culties preyed and preyed for us to analyze the cult of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, and at long last, host Amanda Montell) and coordinator Reese Oliver) are blessing you with one of our favorite episodes in a very long time 🥲 To the undiscerning eye, Netflix’s new “America’s Sweethearts” series may look like an innocent little feature on the NFL’s most treasured cheerleading squad… but to us, this was a true crime documentary about a profoundly conformist, exploitative, isolating, hyper-patriarchal, physically perilous, but also inspirational and glamorous CULT. The question is not if the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading team is culty—I mean, hello, duh—the question is how bad is it??? Tighten your Kelli knots and spritz another coat of hairspray, because we are not holding back this week 📣 **

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