The Beautiful Cult of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A seven-part Netflix docuseries on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders called America’s Sweethearts? Oh my god, WHAT a rich text. The uniform, the dances, the body norms, the coded language, the particular feminine ideals, the intersections with Texas culture and evangelical culture — there’s just so much there. And I was thrilled when Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford, two of the co-hosts of the indispensable Vibe Check, agreed to help answer all of your (excellent) questions. (We couldn’t get the rights to Thunderstruck, but you can just imagine it playing over the intro and on repeat forever.)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Melody. So my husband, Bobby, is a huge fan of the show. He listens to every episode,
0:08.2	even the ones that he thinks he's not going to have any interest in. He's also just a huge
0:13.1	podcast listener in general. So I was very surprised when he recently told me that he didn't
0:20.2	know you can get the paid version of
0:23.4	the episode in the podcast app in which you listen to all of your other podcasts. And I know
0:28.6	I'm not going to go anywhere else, try a new system when I have something I like. So if he
0:34.7	didn't know this, I want to make sure that all of you know this, that if you become a paid subscriber to the Culture Study podcast, you don't have to listen on Substack, although you can.
0:46.2	You can get a special link that you plug into the podcast app that you already use.
0:52.0	So it fits right in with all of your other podcast listening. Everything
0:55.4	is there in one place. So if that is understandably something that has been keeping you from
1:01.2	subscribing, that excuse is now gone. So head to culturestuddypod.substack.com, sign up to be a paid
1:09.4	subscriber. And then you can follow the instructions
1:11.9	to get that special, exclusive paid feed in your favorite podcast app. All right. Thank you.
1:18.9	On with the show. Okay, I want you to take a second. Close your eyes. And when you think of the
1:25.4	cheerleaders, who's the one cheerleader whose face comes into your mind?
1:32.0	And can you describe?
1:32.6	Reese.
1:33.8	That was going to be my T.F.
1:36.0	And can you describe their face?
1:38.5	Sorry, I jumped right in.
1:40.4	Dark brunette hair, I believe blue eyes, really welcoming face, the only the only type of face
1:47.0	that like a Southern Christian family could raise.
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