Vikings Cheerleaders Bathroom TikTok: Inclusivity Means Women Lose Again

The Minnesota Vikings thought they were celebrating inclusivity when they let two male cheerleaders dance in the women’s bathroom with their female teammates for a TikTok. This isn’t harmless fun. It’s the latest step in the cultural slow creep. The steady erosion of women’s spaces, women’s privacy, and all in the name of progress.

The clip, posted on TikTok, shows Vikings cheerleaders Brianna Putney and Jenna Kathlyn dancing alongside Blaze Shiek and Louie Conn, two men the team added to the squad this year. The backdrop? A woman’s bathroom.

By now, I am sure you’ve seen the clip going around.

Minnesota Vikings show off men cheerleaders in the women’s bathroom.

This is on purpose. They want to shove in your face how men are invading women’s spaces.

This is deranged behavior. Boycott Minnesota and the NFL.pic.twitter.com/j7swX1lWuR

— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) August 22, 2025

The Slow Creep of Inclusivity

Bathrooms aren’t neutral. They’re private. They’ve been divided by sex forever for a reason. But the NFL wants us to clap like seals because this is now considered inclusive.

Male cheerleaders aren’t new. The difference now is that they’re not the strong “yell leaders” of the past. They’re presented as more feminine, blending into the women’s squad and even into the women’s spaces.

We’ve heard this song before. Don’t overreact, it’s just a bathroom. They’re just having fun. Male cheerleaders are nothing new.

The Playbook of Normalization

That’s exactly how the slow creep works. At first, people are shocked. Then they’re scolded into silence. Before long, it’s routine.

It’s the same playbook we’ve seen for years. Male athletes in girls’ track meets? Not a big deal. Lia Thomas in the women’s swim locker room? Stop complaining. Drag queens in preschool story hours? Don’t be a prude. And now, even with Donald Trump back in office, you’d think there would be progress on abolishing men in women’s spaces. But have we really made any? Blue states and cities are still pushing this ideology full speed ahead. Our own Victory Girl, Darleen, just pointed out that Illinois still allows boys on girls’ sports teams and in girls’ locker rooms.

Piece by piece, what used to be unthinkable is sold as normal until anyone who objects looks crazy for remembering where the line used to be.

Not Everyone’s Clapping Along

Thankfully, not everyone’s buying the spin.

Former Vikings player Jack Brewer and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., spoke out against the organization for having male cheerleaders.

Brewer, a former Vikings captain, told Fox News Digital he believes the inclusion of men on the cheerleading squad is an attempt to “manipulate children.”

“This is purely an attempt to manipulate young children, to overtake the minds of young children with this spiritual evilness,” Brewer said. “The influence on kids is manipulating the mind of the children. They are teaching young boys that it’s OK to have pom-poms and cheer and act like women.”

Tuberville told OutKick’s “Hot Mic” on Tuesday that he believes fans could stop buying tickets over the issue.

“People will actually quit buying tickets because this is the narrative they’re trying to push. This is not just about a couple of people being men cheerleaders,” Tuberville said. “It is about pushing a narrative that you want to put gender into sports and let everyone know we’re trying to show, ‘Hey, we’re going to take the masculinity out of it a little bit.’” – Fox News

Predictable as Ever

The Vikings, of course, hid behind the usual corporate statement: they’re proud of their cheerleaders and support all of them. Translation: if you think women should have their own bathrooms and their own spots on the squad, you’re the problem.

The bathroom dance isn’t outrageous because it’s new. It’s outrageous because it’s predictable. We’ve seen the same trick in sports, schools, and entertainment. Wrap it in glitter, slap on a hashtag, and call it progress.

But the end result is always the same: women get erased.

Let’s Talk About The Girls

What makes this whole situation worse is not only that men walked into the women’s bathroom, but that the women allowed it. The cheerleaders did not look uncomfortable; they looked like participants. They danced with the men, filmed it, and blasted it on TikTok for clicks.

That is not ignorance. It is complicity.

By doing this, the women turned a private space into a public stage and handed over their dignity. They smiled into the camera, added their hashtags, and packaged it as fun and trendy. But what they were really celebrating was the erasure of their own boundaries.

That isn’t strength, and it certainly isn’t unity. It is betrayal. These women gave away the very thing women before them fought to protect. They didn’t just lose their space. They handed it over and called it progress. This kind of “progress” doesn’t move women forward. It erases them.

The “No Threat” Excuse

Some people shrug and say these boys are more feminine than the girls, so what is there to feel threatened about? That excuse is precisely the problem. The less threatening they look, the easier it is to shame women for speaking up.

This is how the line gets erased. If women object, they are told they are overreacting. If they stay quiet, the invasion is complete. It is not about whether these men act girly enough to blend in. It is about the fact that they are men, and they are in spaces that were never meant for them.

That betrayal makes it harder for other women to speak up. If an NFL cheerleader shrugs off men in her bathroom, what chance does the average high school girl have when the same thing happens in her locker room? That’s the ripple effect. The NFL puts it on camera, the media cheers it, and the rest of us are expected to shut up and follow along.

This Isn’t About Male Cheerleaders

Male cheerleaders aren’t new. They’ve been around forever. We used to call them yell leaders. We had them in my high school in the 1980s! They stood on the sidelines with megaphones, fired up the crowd, and tossed the female cheerleaders into the air. They weren’t trying to be one of the girls, and they sure weren’t in the women’s bathrooms or locker rooms.

That’s the difference. This isn’t really about whether men can dance with pom-poms. It’s about the invasion of spaces that were supposed to belong to women. Bathrooms. Locker rooms. Private places where the line between male and female used to be common sense.

The TikTok might look like a silly stunt, but it’s part of a much bigger problem. Because once men are welcomed into women’s spaces and women celebrate it, there’s no line left to defend. And that’s exactly the point.

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