Satire...Satire...Satire...
Do you ever hear about satire in your life? What about having satire in your life? I know for sure that I both hear a ton of satire, and experience some too, which means you probably do too. Wait a second here, how many of you even know what satire is? Yeah...I didn't think so.
Satire is "a literary composition in verse or prose, in which human folly or vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule."Great, now that you know what satire is..lets move on!
Satire is very common in today's society, especially in certain sports. Personally I have heard and experienced satire in Cheerleading. Now, I'm assuming most of you know what high school football cheerleading is, but how many of you know what ALLSTAR cheerleading is? Not many of you right? Right, thats just what I thought. Take a look at the links above to the you-tube vidoes, and then tell me the better one. You better me sure that you say ALLSTAR, I mean just look at the difference.
Anyways, back to Satire, High school cheerleading is most commonly hit with all kinds of satire. And most of what is said during this satire is very true. High school cheerleaders get a lot less respect because, I mean they're high school cheerleaders, they cheer at football games, and practice minimally, and they do cheers, and use pom poms. I mean some of them only cheer for the super super short skirts that show off their body, hello that reads high school cheerleader all over and "hey we're easy satire targets. Now come to an allstar cheerleading practice, and you will see none of that whatsoever!
I mean there is a reason why allstar cheerleading was rated the number one most DANGEROUS sport. I mean just look at this video from earlier this month, and take a look at the collide. Both girls fractured their skulls, and left the mat (as seen in the left) and the other stayed on the mat and performed with a blood stained uniform until the coach literally told her to stop and rushed her off the mat, forfeiting their routine. Also in this routine you see a girl tear her acl and break her ribs before leaving the mat (Seen in the right). Now I mean just from that you can clearly tell that there's no need for satire in Allstar Cheerleading, and that it is often misjudged as a sport, which it absolutely is.
I personally absolutely disagree with the satire in cheerleading. I can see where it comes from with high school cheerleading, but definitely not in Allstar. As you can probably tell there is satire evident just about everywhere in life, and it can often be misleading and not always true, but also hurtful to others. If you check out the blog Simplexcellence, you will see the true satire from cheerleading, and what is even more satirical is the fact that the owners are real cheerleading coaches.
Now you're probably wondering if there was a point to this blog by now, and you're correct there is...it is meant to show the world of satire outside of literature. To refer to satire in literature lets move on to Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn using an extreme amount of satire. From the very beginning Twain satirizes the society of the South before the war, racism, and the rich/poor relationship. Twain also shows satire towards the end during Huck's (as Tom) conversation with Aunt Sally about the black man. When Aunt Sally asks if anyone was hurt in the steamboat accident, and Huck says no a black man was killed, she replies with "lucky." Huckleberry Finn is written a lot deeper, it is actually written without a lot of hidden satire that many people don't grasp.
Sources:
Dictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2012.
<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire>.
Simplexcellence. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2012.
