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Wiz Imp

(10,422 posts)
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:16 PM Aug 2025

Watching 2 Vikings male cheerleaders dance threatens masculinity of right-wing host

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/watching-2-vikings-male-cheerleaders-dance-threatens-masculinity-of-right-wing-host/ar-AA1KkWhP?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=1b2507bb6a2448a8814f3707ce07ef94&ei=6

The Minnesota Vikings have joined the list of NFL teams employing male cheerleaders, with dancers Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn making their debut Saturday in the Vikings’ preseason home opener. It was much too much to bear for a host on the right-wing Infowars site.

“Imagine you buy front row season football tickets and when you sit down there’s some man girating right in front of you,” Owen Shroyer posted on X, misspelling “gyrating” in the process.

Someone get Shroyer to the fainting couch — men are dancing! His reaction reminds me of the famous Onion headline: “Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My C*ck?”

It took X user Gator Gum to smack down Shroyer (who has 371,000 X followers and is a real piece of work) with the appropriate comment: “Yes, he’s blocking your view of the husky man in tights putting his hands between the legs of the other man in tights. Do you know they shower together after the games too? “
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Watching 2 Vikings male cheerleaders dance threatens masculinity of right-wing host (Original Post) Wiz Imp Aug 2025 OP
George Bush was a male cheerleader Johonny Aug 2025 #1
My first thought UpInArms Aug 2025 #4
Texas A&M is famous for their male cheerleaders misanthrope Aug 2025 #6
The guys are called Yell Leaders at TAMU musette_sf Aug 2025 #11
Call it what you want misanthrope Aug 2025 #14
These RWNJs are the weakest people on Earth. RockRaven Aug 2025 #2
My brother taught photography at a state prison in San Diego. He was showing photos of nudes, including ... marble falls Aug 2025 #3
So who are the straight women who watch football supposed to enjoy watching "girate"? HeartsCanHope Aug 2025 #5
Meanwhile... Oeditpus Rex Aug 2025 #7
But does Shroyer get tears in his eyes watching Krasnov Buns_of_Fire Aug 2025 #8
And they call us snowflakes? Iris Aug 2025 #9
This clown would have a stroke if he ever watched Banana Ball. GoCubsGo Aug 2025 #10
iirc, Reagan was a cheerleader in college. n/t area51 Aug 2025 #12
I can see why he's upset. GOOO Team! Ping Tung Aug 2025 #13

Johonny

(26,618 posts)
1. George Bush was a male cheerleader
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:24 PM
Aug 2025

But whatever . . . The whole GOP these days has issues that won't be resolved in group.

UpInArms

(55,366 posts)
4. My first thought
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:54 AM
Aug 2025

George W. Bush Was the Head Cheerleader at His High School in the 1960s

misanthrope

(9,629 posts)
6. Texas A&M is famous for their male cheerleaders
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:39 AM
Aug 2025

They even grab their crotches when leading cheers.

misanthrope

(9,629 posts)
14. Call it what you want
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:03 PM
Aug 2025

It is essentially a male cheerleader with one big difference: The ones at Texas A&M aren't working in intimate proximity with a bevy of attractive females.

RockRaven

(19,754 posts)
2. These RWNJs are the weakest people on Earth.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:29 PM
Aug 2025

So fragile, so soft, so brittle, and so very very much in denial about their weakness.

marble falls

(72,531 posts)
3. My brother taught photography at a state prison in San Diego. He was showing photos of nudes, including ...
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:36 PM
Aug 2025

... men, and the convicts were outraged that that was homosexual interest in the male form. Rog asked them, then what was body building about.

They actually got the point.

In another class an inmate told Roger if he didn't get a 'C' in class, Rog was getting a beat down.

HeartsCanHope

(1,763 posts)
5. So who are the straight women who watch football supposed to enjoy watching "girate"?
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:53 AM
Aug 2025

I'm not a football fan, but know women who are, AND they can all spell gyrate correctly! I particularly enjoyed the comment included by Gator Gum! This Owen Shroyer is weird!

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
7. Meanwhile...
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 05:49 AM
Aug 2025

I'd bet Shroyer orders that generic, 87 cent Viagra and "man boosting" testosterone supplements (As Seen On TV!) by the carload.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,222 posts)
8. But does Shroyer get tears in his eyes watching Krasnov
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:26 AM
Aug 2025

shake (!?) his enormous booty and jerk off two invisible giraffes at his hatefests? Bet he does. Betcha it gives him a tingle up his leg.

GoCubsGo

(35,000 posts)
10. This clown would have a stroke if he ever watched Banana Ball.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 07:53 AM
Aug 2025

All of the players on all of the teams dance. And, they're going to be adding more teams next season, since they've been selling out left and right. At least one of the teams even has a cheer-leading squad made up of middle-aged men with beer bellies, WHO "GYRATE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU." It looks like Owen is the only one with the problem here.

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