I’m all for cross-cultural pollination but I’m not sure I’m ready for cricket cheerleaders:

“All the organizers are doing by making scantily clad white women dance in front of huge crowds is to stoke the base, voyeuristic and sexual insecurities of the Indian male. It’s revolting and crude,” historian Ramachandra Guha said.
But many cheerleaders said they were “disgusted and disturbed” over the suggestive remarks from Indian spectators.
“We do expect people to pass lewd, snide remarks but I am shocked by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here (in India)” cheerleader Tabitha from Uzbekistan said.
“Be it a 70-year-old or a 15-year-old kid they all letch at us and make amorous advances.
“We are living in constant fear of being molested,” she bemoaned.
Meanwhile, some of the cricketers too objected to the cheerleaders.
“The girls in skimpy dresses should be removed from the ground as this is distracting to batsmen,” Pakistan’s aggressive scorer Shahid Afridi said.
“Cricket itself is an entertainment and does not require such cheerleaders to entertain,” he added.

I’m with Shahid. By the way, is Tabitha a common name in Uzbekistan, even for skimpily dressed cheerleaders?

Oh, and for some reason, the phrase “stoking the base” reminded me of John McCain, although evidently he does a lot less of it than Tabitha.

(via Tim Blair)