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I think it's also worth noting that while this narrative tends to get pushed, it's numerically incorrect many years. If there are 36 girls on the team, and 4 or 5 of them are black; then DCC's diversity matches the population for those races. Black girls are, on average lately, as present on DCC as they are in the population; some years under-represented but over-represented other years. Who is almost always under-represented are Asians and Hispanics/Latinx. But these races are under-represented pretty much league wide on cheerleading teams, it's nothing specific to DCC.

A digression, but for those interested in the etymology: The expression is/was primarily "as queer as a 2 dollar bill" and was a way of saying someone was pretending to be straight. 2 dollar bills have pretty much always existed, since the Civil War. But there was a short period of time were they were legal tender, but not being issued. Around that same period of time, the word "queer" was used both for it's original meaning of "unusual" and as a, at the time not as accepted as offensive as it is now, term for homosexual. The expression "as queer as a 2 dollar bill" was just a play on the rarity of the 2 dollar bill and the double meaning of the word "queer", unusual as well as homosexual. People began to view/accept the word "queer" as offensive and stop using it, and at the same time the understood meaning of the expression was slowly changing from "pretending to be straight" to just "pretending" or "fake." Thus the expression "phony as a 2 dollar bill" was born. You'll also occasionally hear the phrase "phony as a 3 dollar bill" from people who realize 2 dollar bills do exist, but didn't understand the etymology of the phrase and were trying to be more accurate, and on rare occasion, "queer as a 3 dollar bill" from people who just heard all of the above in various contexts and got it all confused.

She gives off what we called in college the "homeschooler vibe." I went to a religious university that had an abnormally high normal of students who were homeschooled for extended periods, some even their whole life prior to college. And there was just something odd about many of them. Nothing wrong or negative, they tended to be the nicest people actually, and it wasn't related to how religious they actually were (or weren't); they just didn't quite develop social skills the same way most people had. It wasn't true of all homeschoolers or anything. But pretty much every time when someone had that vibe, when you got to know them you'd find out they had been homeschooled for a while. Was a regular topic of discussion among friends, especially those of us in the behavioral science department lol. Really none of our business, what difference does it make to her cheerleading... but I kind of wonder if Kristin was homeschooled for a while. Even more after these posts.

Yeah, her group trained in November, went shipboard right around Thanksgiving. She wasn't supposed to be home yet. There are a lot of reasons she might have left mid-contract though. Injuries being a huge one, if you have an injury you can't perform with, for anything more than a few days, they often will send people home. There is of course stuff that can get you let go, from missing ship safety drill assignments to inappropriate behavior with guests (which can even be some pretty innocuous stuff) to just being too inebriated and the wrong person noticing. It's also not unusual for people to just not be able to handle the lifestyle. While performers jobs may not be as grueling as others on a cruise ship, on some lines the amount they are expected to do would surprise many. For instance RCCL, you typically have 3 or 4 of your own shows, plus several events like 70s night or the parade, plus teaching lessons, plus stuff like running spotlights for stuff like the ice dancing show... they give performers lots of random jobs and it really starts adding up. You don't get any days off, you just have some days where you get certain hours off. It would not say anything negative about Dayton if it wasn't something she was able enjoy.

Oh wow, I didn't realize the Explorer got switched to the South Pacific. Speaks to her talent that they have her there on her first contract. And definitely wasn't trying to diminish her at all saying she wasn't the "star," just trying to set expectations for anyone who got to see her. Of course, I was thinking the Explorer was still out of New Jersey, thus a little more likely people here would. For her to get a lead spot for an RC ship in the South Pacific on her first contract is extremely impressive. And I should have mentioned originally, but as cruise lines go, Royal Caribbean is one of the tougher ones to get a contract on as a dancer. Have multiple friends who worked multiple contracts for several lines and never made it further than call backs for RC.

Royal Caribbean hires performers as "Singers who can dance" or "Dancers who can sing." Dayton was (presumably) hired as the latter. To most people, the lead is always one of the "Singers who can dance." Being the lead dancer is not being the star of the show, it's more like being the lead background dancer. Still takes a lot of talent to get that spot, especially on your first contract. Believe Dayton is training for Explorer of the Seas. One of the older ships Royal has, but the newer ships tend to get people who have completed at least one contract. Explorer has one really dance based show, and some original shows; not one of the Royal ships that has a Broadway musical. Training now probably means her cast will replace the current one sometime in mid-January.

Nutritionists in the USA aren't MD's, but HIPAA laws apply to all healthcare professionals. But it likely doesn't matter. Cheerleaders are private contractors. So when DCC sends them to a nutritionist, it's extremely likely DCC has to pay for it. And similar to when insurance pays for something, when a business is paying for a contractors healthcare, they are, by necessity, allowed to know a decent amount of information. They are just required to apply by HIPAA laws themselves. So whether the show talks about what she lied about, or just the fact she lied, may be effected by HIPAA and the language in the show release agreement; but them knowing she didn't go makes total sense. If from no other way, they know because they didn't get the bill.

If you look at it from a demographics perspective & the fact they consider themselves "America's Team" not just Dallas; 4 people who identify as African American is dead on, 12% of 36. So where they tend to be non-representative isn't AA, it's among Hispanics.