The controlled sexuality of American cheer
Purity culture meets sex work meets aspirational womanhood meets endless girlhood
If the first season of Netflix’s America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders felt like a tepid expose, this season feels more like a nationalist sentimentalization of American cheer, streaming on Netflix at the worst possible moment. The show even opens with a montage of the DCC’s strict rules and the faces of the women trying to shake up the org…