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Bailey Davis was a New Orleans Saints cheerleader for three years. She didn’t part ways with the professional football team on good terms. She was fired for posting a photo of herself in a one-piece bathing suit on her private Instagram.
According to the Daily Mail, it’s prohibited that Saints cheerleaders appear nude, semi-nude or in lingerie and attend parties with the team’s football players.
They fired Davis for posting a photo of herself in a one-piece bathing suit on her then private account in January. The New York Times stated that Saints officials believed that the photo broke their strict protocol. Officials of the NFL team also accused her of attending a party with a Saints player. She denied both of these allegations but was still fired.
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But Davis isn’t taking her being let go laying down. She has now filed a complaint against the Saints franchise through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that helps enforce civil rights laws. Eventually, she plans on filing a lawsuit against the team.
Her complaint against the Saints “accuses the Saints of having two sets of rules – one for the team’s cheerleaders, who are all women, and another for its players,” according to The New York Times.
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The New York Times article details how sexist the franchise’s duel rules for the cheerleaders are versus the male football player’s rules.
According to the Saints’ handbook for cheerleaders, as well as internal emails and text messages reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with Davis, the Saints have an anti-fraternization policy that requires cheerleaders to avoid contact with players, in person or online, even though players are not penalized for pursuing such engagement with cheerleaders. The cheerleaders must block players from following them on social media and cannot post photos of themselves in Saints gear, denying them the chance to market themselves. The players are not required to do any of these things.
Cheerleaders have to go as far as leave a restaurant if a player is already there or arrives after her. The cheerleaders being strictly regulated to avoid football players is in the franchise’s eyes to protect them, but the regulation enforced the ideology that women are the cause of anything bad happening to them. If anything the football players should have the same rules, or at least they should be the ones with strict regulation so their predatory behavior is regulated.
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The Saints legally can’t fire someone based on their race, religion, gender and so on. Davis’ complaint is rooted in that these rules, that are only applicable to female cheerleaders, are discriminatory towards women.
They didn’t have any proof that Davis was at a party where a football player was also at. Davis also denied these allegations. But then after that, the team saw a photo of her in a one-piece bathing suit on her private Instagram and deemed it violating their rules of appearing nude, semi-nude or in lingerie. Her Saintsations, the Saints cheerleading uniform, is more skin-baring than her one-piece suit.
