And so they are suing.
Some NFL cheerleaders.
Oh, give me a freaking break.
Okay, a couple of things here to strike me as perhaps worth of attention on their behalf. If they were paid an illegally low wage for their "work", that's wrong.
And to the extent one alleges that she was attacked by a fan and her employer did nothing about it, that's wrong too.
But as for the rest of this, I mean come on.
There's an entire somewhat popular television show following the young women who try to get onto the Dallas Cowboy's cheerleader squad. Body shaming? Yep, they do it. Shoot, it's right there on television.
But this is not a dignified career.
One of these individuals or their lawyer said something about "we are professional women". I guess, but in the case of cheerleaders for NFL teams that professionalism unfortunately relates back in a way to the oldest profession. And even to the extent it doesn't, it's not a very dignified occupation.
It isn't, I'd note, high school or college cheerleading in which the cheerleaders have at least more than a hint of clothing. It's a Playboyized version of it from the 1970s.
It ought to go.
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