The fans of the American Football Association mentioned are not new. Why does people get angry at the Minnesota Vikings team?

When Vikings Minnesota They announced their list of encouragement team Earlier this month, they also unleashed Internet storm.

The team wrote on Instagram on August 9, along with a video that opened with Louis Kun, to Instagram, along with a video that opened with Luue Kon Cony, the smiling jumping to a background, then dancing and shaking Boumeza alongside other dancers, including Blaize Shiek.

The response was immediate, with some People on social media leave offensive notes And the threat to stop supporting the team. Then, more than the officials facing the public giving up, such as Republican Senator Tommy TobrevilleWho accused the team of paying the narration of “wake up”, and Fox News Will CainWho said that the issue is “male fans as they are female fans.”

Former Vikings player and current governor activist, Jack Brewer, Fox News said He was “disgusted and embarrassed” about adding male fans, adding, “No man needs to get a boam in their hands.”

In the end, the Vikings themselves A statement offered Conn and Shiek support, today tells us that about a third of the American Football Association teams have two male fans this year, and that each team member has an impressive dance background and bypassing a strict test.

Check off nota The first male fans In the American Football Association – that It happened in 2018 With Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans of Saints.

And if anger is more than men dancing alongside women, well As long as there is a danceThere were male dancers.

So why are people fired around this type of dance, and why now?

“I think it is about people’s expectations about what they believe that encouragement should appear,” said Tiffany Beveridge, head of the CBC News Organization Organization.

“It seems less than men on the field and more than the fact that they are dancing instead of just raising or putting exciting actions. This really shows the biases that we have about sex and dance.”

Football culture disrupts

Football has a distinguished role in American culture, where it is Sports spectators. The American Football Association tends to be a historical race, with harsh male and brave players treat each other Super systems cHeerleaders root them from side lines.

the “Taylor Swift effect“On football classifications, sales and sales of Merch are already Many male fans were angry In order to increase the focus on pop star during games. She was Fadd in Super Bowl This year and HECKLed online By US President Donald Trump.

And now, as some Media They point out that male fans disrupt this culture, while redefining what male sport can look strong, graceful and cheerful. Not only carry the base of a pyramid, but dance in the foreground and the middle.

“When people think about the heads of the fans of the American Football Association, you think about throwing big men in the air. More gymnastics and dwarfs,” said Napoleon Genes, who chanted to Los Angeles Ramez in 2018 and made history by performing in Superbowl in 2019, CNN Wednesday.

“I now think we are completely complementary, not like the accessories, and we do the same movements and the same movements that we vomit on the team, I don’t know, it is completely different for most people.”

Beveridge said that in the Canadian Football League, male fans were not new. She explained that Edmonton, for example, has had men for years, and since then she followed her. Although it is primarily involved in dwarf, it is

“The encouragement is a mixture of sport and performance, and it is not something that sex must be determined,” said Beveridge.

“The presence of men on the margin shows children and young men that there is a place for them in this world as well.”

“Where I was supposed to be”

The universe was also announced as a description in a non -gender -diversity political climate in athletics, as Trump undertakes.Keep men from women’s sport“By banning transgender athletes, and Many sports teams in the United Kingdom The transgender players after the British Supreme Court ruling the definition of a “woman.”

The former American Football Association RK Russel wrote that the anger of Vikings fans revolves around “attempts to control masculinity” In the guardian.

He wrote on Tuesday: “It comes to the presence of men’s clarity on the teams of the American Football Association chanting who do not comply with old solid ideas about the masculinity that many use sport, and football in particular, to defend,” he wrote on Tuesday.

But in the midst of negativity, a lot of response was also positive, as the fans went out to support them and neutralize the fans.

On Minnesota Vikings fans InstagramFor example, commentators have published that the new team “embodies the inclusion”, supports “everyone’s rights in their dreams”, and pledged their love for both fans and football team.

One of them wrote on Instagram: “SEAAAWKS fan, but here to support your joy group.”

Another added: “The new Vikings fan is here.”

In another Instagram publication apparently In response to the uproar, an imminent unit together collects the uniform along with the explanatory name, “Wait … Did someone say our name?”

Conn, for his part, was also published A picture of himself as a childSitting in the divisions with an arm in the air, with the illustrations, “I am right as I was supposed to be.”

“I never felt very love,” he added.