Thursday Reads

Since several NFL teams do not have cheerleaders these days, it is long overdue for the rest of the teams to likewise do the same.  There is no reason to have women doing this and is yet another example of the pornification of our society.

These poor women are being literally pimped out:

A "mandatory" trip to a nightclub where they were told to escort wealthy sponsors. A topless photo shoot that male spectators were invited to attend. Those are two of the main allegations made by cheerleaders from Washington's NFL team about a 2013 trip to Costa Rica to photograph the squad's swimsuit calendar.

The allegations described in a New York Times story stem from a trip to the Occidental Grand Papagayo, an adults-only resort on Culebra Bay, on Costa Rica's west coast.

Citing interviews with five cheerleaders who were there, the Times' Juliet Macur reports that the women were unhappy with their lack of privacy — and worried that the team wasn't concerned enough with their safety. Also unsettling: They said the team collected their passports early in the weeklong trip.

Get rid of the cheerleading squads.

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