Don’t compare stealing to cheating, Jesus.

Fuck off. Anyone who defends their cheating rather than acknowledging the shittiness of it and saying they’ve realized they need to explore non-monogamy (if that is indeed what led to their cheating, which is FAR from a foregone conclusion) is a dick who deserves vilification. And cheating assholes who fuck around on…

And if they DO cheat, they need to take fucking responsibility for their own actions and not defensively claim that it’s society’s fault for not letting them know they could be polyamorous. Saying “I did a lousy thing by cheating and have come to realize I need to explore non-monogamous relationships” is an entirely…

So you think these poor, put-upon souls have no other option than to actively join a website for the sole express purpose of fucking around on the sly while maintaining all the comforts of your spousal relationship?

They wanted someone to be exclusive to them, but they didn’t want to reciprocate

Funny, because that’s PRECISELY what I see.

Except we don’t assume everyone should be held up to the same standard. That’s why there are many different kinds of relationships. People are free to pursue and establish whatever type of relationship suits them. They also have to recognize that if for whatever reason they’ve pursued monogamy despite being unsuited…

Such as putting up with being cheated on by their spouses?

Not to mention realizing, if you did or do cheat, that it’s a dick thing to do, rather than blaming it on Society’s Wrath or whatever nonsense OP is spouting.

No.

Seriously, what is with the fucking assholes around here lately? I keep thinking I’m on Gawker rather than Jezebel.

And yet, without the cheerleaders, they couldn’t charge $500 for a cheerleader “experience,” they couldn’t have cheerleader meet-and-greets, they couldn’t have the cheerleaders be a presence in the community to promote the team. It doesn’t matter whether fans would care. It matters if their employer makes money off…

None of which has even an iota to do with whether one of your employers was exploiting you. Exploitation is based on the actions of your EMPLOYER, not the prospects or resume entries of the employee. Does your employer make money directly off your work, particularly work that they are not willing or able to do…

Yeah, deception is not a key component of exploitation, but nice try.

And what does that have to do with exploitation? Exploitation is based on the acts of the employer, not the prospects of the employee.

And both part and parcel of a global and pernicious devaluing of marginalized people, specifically women, and their contributions, simply on different ends of the spectrum. It’s not different forces that foster and protect the exploitation of a girl picking strawberries and a Clippers Spirit dancer. It just manifests…

Plus they are demonstrably providing value and revenue opportunities for their employers - the experience packages, the meet-and-greets, the community events and promotion, plus the on-court entertainment during time-outs and half-time - yet seeing basically no benefits from that.

It’s not whether they’re worth something to you. It’s whether they’re worth something to the owner. And they’re clearly worth something to their owner, who uses them as part of $500 “experience” packages and to meet-and-greet before games. I mean, I don’t really see the point of cheerleaders either in the general…

If they were inherently worthless they wouldn’t be part of $500 packages sold to fans and they wouldn’t have to be at games 2-1/2 hours early for meet-and-greets.

Also, ironic, considering the fact that gay students have had little to zero representation or consideration in literature used for class reading lists for forever.