On Thursday, USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour took on a serious issue in the NFL: female cheerleaders. You see, it turns out that cheerleaders at NFL games are eye candy. This is breaking news, apparently.
Now, Armour is right to protest. But the question is why Armour is right while social conservatives have supposedly been wrong all these years. The media maintain (correctly) that treating women as sex objects is awfully wrong — unless the media are cheering actresses getting naked for their “bravery,” and talking about the personal choices of porn stars like Stormy Daniels, or urging on 17-year-old girls who don’t wear bras to school. That’s empowerment. But women getting paid for dancing in bikinis publicly is obviously just part of the exploitative system.
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