Three Cheers for Crowe

Three cheers for the Western culture and three cheers for those who despise it. How much Indians may frown upon bad influences of the western world, it is there that a kind of sensitivity shows itself every now and then. Not surprisingly enough, some sane voices also sprout there from time to time which hitherto are absent here. In the era when Karan Johars and Yash Chopras in India try to emulate every inch of the western flicks, and recreate every exaggerated glossy scene seen on a English screen, here comes the Gladitor, who has shown a sensitivity rarely seen elsewhere.
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Russell Crowe has declared to axe scantily-dressed cheerleaders from his Sydney football club because they make men uncomfortable. Crowe, who co-owns one of Australia's oldest rugby league clubs, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, will replace the club cheer girls this season with a drumming band of men and women after his wife Top of Form 2
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Danielle Spencer and other fans complained.
Crowe said that Research showed fans were uncomfortable going to games with girls on the sidelines dressed in skimpy green, red, white dance costumes.
"It makes women uncomfortable and it makes blokes who take their son to the football also uncomfortable," Crowe told Australian media. "We've talked to a lot of people and everyone sees it as being progressive."
Crowe, a long-term Rabbitohs fan, bought the cash and win-strapped club in 2006 with Peter Holmes a Court, the scion of one of Australia's wealthiest families.