ELLISVILLE, Miss. — Bailey Davis, the former Saints cheerleader who last spring took on the N.F.L. and one of New Orleans’s most beloved institutions, has had quite a year.

Appearances with high-profile personalities in television turned her into a feminist folk hero after she complained about being fired for posting a photograph of herself in a lacy outfit. Yet those actions also made her the target of online attacks, not only from angry men, but also from cheerleaders who say she has made it harder for them to do their jobs.

“It’s, ‘You got what you were asking for, you whore,’ or ‘You knew what you signed up for, you slut,’” Davis said in an interview at her home, about a two-hour drive north of New Orleans. “It’s completely degrading to me as a person and to women everywhere.”

When Davis filed a sex discrimination case last year in late March against the Saints, accusing the team of having two standards, one for cheerleaders and another for players, she assumed few people would notice. As a cheerleader, she danced on the sideline on game days in front of tens of thousands of people but was largely anonymous.