re: #193 JordanRules

Them being sex objects is probably the prevailing default view. I’d just like to recall that it’s not the only one. I don’t see them that way. I always saw them as dancers. My bff was a Cardinals cheerleader back in the day and she was a trained dancer and being in that orbit was a lot like every other dance crew. I imagine many gay gentlemen don’t necessarily view them as sex objects either.

That’s why I said it’s PART OF THE job. I don’t think one can honestly disentangle the sex object aspect from the job as a whole. They won’t hire a woman who doesn’t look good in the costume, for example.

The thing is, 1) I don’t think that having a job that is partly being a sex object is inherently a bad thing. And it doesn’t define who these women are - this is a job they do. And 2) being a sex object IN NO WAY justifies the treatment they got and the things they were expected to do, as detailed in the article.