A Tale of Two Females: The Sexy Reporter and the Six-Year-Old Cheerleader

on September 16, 2010 at 9:24 AM

Jenny EriksonSome days I marvel at the backwards world we live in. Earlier this week I read about Ines Sainz, Mexico's Hottest Reporter, becoming distraught because virile, athletic men wolf-whistled at her as she romped around their NFL locker room in a tight blouse and even tighter jeans.

The horror! How dare those men treat Ms. Sainz like an attractive woman obviously showing off her beautiful body in the men's locker room? According to so-called-feminists like Joy Behar, grown women who choose to dress provocatively, post pictures of themselves in bikinis on their employer's website, and traipse through an NFL locker rooms need to be protected from men's raucous wolf-whistles.

Meanwhile in Michigan, a 6-year-old has been kicked off her cheerleading squad because her parents didn't want her to participate in chanting a risqué cheer. The questionable cheer was, "Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties from left to right."

Jennifer and Duane Tesch's daughter Kennedy was unanimously voted off the Madison Heights Wolverines flag football cheerleading team on Tuesday night, after they voiced concerns over the suggestive words of the cheer.

"I don't even have the words," Jennifer Tesch told FoxNews.com. "I can't believe their solution to this was to remove my daughter from the team. She's going to be devastated. She's going to be crying."

Let me get this straight. On one hand, we have 32-year-old sexpot Ines Sainz crying foul at men whistling in a complimentary way at the sensual look that she works hard to project, and we're all supposed to come to her rescue. On the other hand, we have 6-year-old Kennedy Tesch getting kicked off of her cheerleading squad because her parents didn't want her to wet some pedophile pants with a suggestive cheer, and we're called prudes if we question it?

Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this picture?

How backwards is our world that grown women who freely flaunt their sexuality are afforded more protection than little girls on a cheerleading squad?

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Comments (29)

GRADON33

on Sep 16, 2010 at 9:32 AM

You're right Jenny! It's a pretty backwards world, and if you'll notice, this is not the only thing that they've gotten a bit backwards! There's tons of crap like this all over our nation, and it really makes me sick when I come across yet another thing that continues to make this country look bad. Namely, OUR CITIZENS! Some people just need to pull their heads out of their asses and look at the big freakin' picture!

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Cafe Kim

on Sep 16, 2010 at 9:46 AM

I think it's possible to disagree with how Ines Sainz handles herself in her occupation without defending the "virile, athletic" men's gross, immature behavior and insinuating that because she "romped" (how do you even know that?), she got what she deserved.

Good point about the cheerleader, though. Sheesh, what's wrong with that squad?

Nonmember comment from Whoever

on Sep 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM

Regarding the football thing, let's say I had a daughter and a son in their 20s. The daughter intentionally dresses very suggestively and then intentionally enters a room full of naked young men. The son sees a sexily dressed woman and makes an appreciative adolescent sound. Which one is most likely to spoil my dinner that night?

on Sep 16, 2010 at 10:21 AM

I'm pretty shocked at those parents for voting that little girl off the team. How can adults take out their frustrations on children in such a ruthless way? Did they give a moment's thought to how their own 6-year-old would be hurt by such a thing? I don't think this is an issue about prudishness at all. It's about adults who never grew up. Disgusting.

jeannesager

on Sep 16, 2010 at 11:01 AM

So, let me get this straight. If your daughter was standing in a room trying to be a professional doing her job, and the guys around her wouldn't shut up and stop making comments on her boobs . . . that would be OK because, hey, girls should just be grateful that a man finds them attractive?

on Sep 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM

If my daughter were a sports reporter, I would hope she would act like a professional, and that does not include dressing the way this lady does and going into a men's locker room and expecting these still adolescent young men to not notice her curves. Frankly, I'd have a talk with my daughter if she went anywhere dressed like that. Is she a professional reporter or a professional butt-wiggler?

on Sep 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM

Whoever -- part of being a sports reporter is going into locker rooms. That's her JOB.

And as a former reporter who dressed in jeans and a nice shirt on the sidelines of high school football games -- much younger "truly adolescent" boys -- I know what it's like to be hit on simply for being female and there. And guess what? The coaches told the boys they were being inappropriate. And some of the players apologized for their teammates . . . often.

As for "still adolescent young men," you do realize these men are adults? Who should be expected to act as such? The "she was asking for it" defense doesn't hold up anywhere. Adults need to act like adults.

Nonmember comment from lisap.

on Sep 16, 2010 at 11:33 AM

Whoever - "Dressing the way that lady does"? Sainz was wearing jeans and a white button down shirt! Are you suggesting a burka? Hey, maybe all women should have to wear one.

on Sep 16, 2010 at 11:35 AM

I know that going into locker rooms is a sports reporter's job. I don't agree that it should be, but as of now, it is. However, one should dress appropriately if one expects to be treated like a professional. There are other female sports reporters who don't feel the need to dress like a sex object to do their "job." Obviously the sex appeal is part of her intended image. Can we stop pretending otherwise? And by the way, these guys' coaches etc. did complain to them for their behavior. That doesn't mean she is a victim, however. She is not. She even says she is not. So let's find a real wrong to complain about.

APeveteaux

on Sep 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM

Seriously Jenny? I hope your children rebel against everything you're saying right now, because that's a disgusting way to look at the Sainz situation. Boys will boys? Would that be an acceptable excuse as someone victimized a girl in your family?

And the two stories have nothing to do with each other. You're insinuating that all of us "feminists" who are calling out unacceptable behavior in adults think raunchy cheers are appropriate for six-year-olds. How in the world did you come to that conclusion? It's ass-backwards at best, lying at worst.