MORE SONG GIRLS

I applaud the nuance and irony of Celeste Fremon’s devastating critique of the USC song girls “Dream Team” (Sept. 8). In post-feminism, post-sexual-revolution 1991, to write about the women who want to be song girls and the women who choose them is to set oneself up either as a rah-rah mascot or as a shrill, humorless feminist. Fremon avoids both these traps nicely by simply letting the arbiters of this pathetic institution speak for themselves.

Amid a welter of understatement and presumably disinterested journalistic objectivity, Fremon’s message booms loud and clear: If women really want to achieve the dignity and esteem of full equality, we must encourage each other to avoid such blatantly demeaning roles as USC song girls.

ANNE-MARIE SCHOLZ

Irvine