Yes, you *do* need the money that bad, you oversensitive twat. (Hooters for Neuters)

The BBQ Pit
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I honestly didn’t realize Hooters and their “Girls” were still on the public’s collective radar. As surprised as I am that men still get a thrill out of what has practically become a parody of itself, I’m even more surprised that there are still women threatened by it. How else to explain the vitriol over grown women willfully earning a living in a *legal * manner?

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I heard the best line once, dunno if it was in a book or IRL. A minister received a bunch of so-called “tainted” money, and when called on it, answered, “It may have been tainted but now it’s in good hands and we’ll cleanse it by using it for good purposes.”

What a bunch of crap. People think women are being exploited when the women don’t feel so. This is nothing new, but still, can we get over it?

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But don’t you get it? Hooters is practically a strip club! Except for the not taking off the clothes part, of course.

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Yeah, and every Church Communion service is like Jonestown except there’s no cyanide in the juice. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Bravo sir.

And maybe Hooters can still help out LA with their stray problems. Those guys at table 6 want an order of barbeque puppy wings.

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My new mantra: What would Ben Franklin do?

Take the Hooters money, fools.

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I’m pretty sick of my workplace, where the men are exploited. They are paid to run around naked and shake their weenies at people. Well, actually, that’s not why they get paid, and they aren’t allowed to shake their weenies. Oh, and they’re only naked underneath their clothes. And there’s no running.

But still, when will the exploitation stop?!?

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This is what Hooters women do:

Get paid to dress in skimpy outfits. Meet customers. Take their orders efficiently. (No one is telling them to flirt, they can if they want). They get tips.

This is what I do:

Get paid to dress nicely. (“Nicely” in my book means feminine.) Meet clients. Take their orders efficently. I can flirt if I want, except most of our “clients” are young mothers. I do lots of computer work. I don’t get tips.
I really don’t see the difference. Theyr’e using their assets, I am using mine.

And the first person to make a pun about the word “assetts” gets a crack upside the head.

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Heh heh. You said “crack.”

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:kicks tdn:

I knew you couldn’t refrain from saying something.

That’s what I like about you, actually.
On preview: What the heck is wrong with the size tag?

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Heh heh. You said “couldn’t.”
What?

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And this is different from other restaurants how??

I think the OP is right on.

I don’t see anything wrong with a bikini contest for Animal Services.

At least as long as the dogs wear three bikini tops each, to cover up all of their nipples.

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Didn’t some morning shock-jock in Tampa Bay (Bubba the Love Sponge I believe) used to run an annual fund raiser for Toys for Tots but instead called it Toys for Tits and used girls from local strip clubs to get guys to bring in toys in exchange for lap dances?
I believe the Marines gladly accepted all donations.

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After a long night of sleepy (And def. not playing the Sims. . . I don’t have a problem) , I’ve put some more thought into this. I’ve got a few points, then after this I’ll reply to a few responses that really stuck out at me. Wow, why the hell does this sound like a really crappy essay?

Anyway, three big issues really stick out at me here:

1: Skimpy Outfits: Seriously? For those of you saying that, have you ever been shopping in the Glendale Gallaria or the Beverely Center (both in “LA”)? You may or may not have noticed, but it’s quite fashionable for young girls my age to dress like utter tramps. Mini skirts with damn near butt cheeks hanging out, cut off shirts, super low cut shirts, “stripper” heels. It’s all the rage. The point is: you can see the same, if not worse, at the mall as you would at Hooters. Particularly the two I’ve listed above.

Is Hooters held to a different standard simply because the girls that work there tend to be particularly pretty? If so, go to the above malls. Plastic surgery and vanity are quite common amoung the mall shopping, Louis Vuitton totting, ass cheek hanging out set. Perhaps if Los Angeles really wants to adhere to these morals standards they keep touting, we ought to police the malls. :rolleyes:

2: Tax Money: Call me crazy, but I’d imagine that the city of Los Angeles has no beef with taking as much tax money as possible from all of the LA area Hooters restaurants. I’m also sure that they love the extra tourist income they bring to particularly areas.

In a round about way, this is as silly as and reminds me of a sin tax to me: we don’t like what you do, but we’re going to tax you a ton and let you stick around ‘cuz we really like the money. Oh, and then when you actually try to be a community member and do something good for people, well hot damn! We don’t want to be associated with *you![/I (Take out Hooters and insert any "questionable’ business: alcohol, ciggs, whatever. Not to mention, compared to the others listed, Hooters ain’t that bad).

3: So this is feminism? Not that I’m trying to start a debate on such a matter, but the women quoted in the article really set off my bitch meter. It seems to me like the women in the OP feel that the girls are being exploited and are being overly sexual- and ought to not be encouraged by the pious city of Los Angeles (a city that, ya know, has some of the world’s biggest sex shops). Fine. But isn’t that the exact opposite of basic feminism? To me, the feminist movement means that I don’t have to live my life by what anyone dictates that a woman should be- just what I want to be. Yet the women from AS are being as backwards as possible and assigning “proper” gender roles to girls and women who are quite happy where they are at.

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This is feminism. To some people. It’s no different from the women who claim porn should be outlawd because it’s “demeaning” to the women who are involved…not noticing or caring that the women involved are there willingly (usually) and are making big bucks. And if you point that out, that at least the majority of women know what they’re doing, they come back with “Well, they’ve been so brain-washed by a male society that they don’t understand, the poor lost souls.” :rolleyes:

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The absolute worst part of this here argument is, of course, with no extra money, some poor abandoned animals are going to meet their maker sooner rather than later.

What comes in a close second (to me anyway) is the feeling that trying to explain liberation to the repressed will always get you branded “dirty”, and that really saddens me. Exploitation. Right. Isn’t it ALWAYS exploitation when people aren’t doing what you think is right? :rolleyes:

These aren’t kids in third world countries with no say so, folks. It ain’t dirty. Cheesy, yeah, but not dirty.

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We did a burlesque show last year and wanted to donate the money to several different charities who declined it. There was no stripping, just some girls doing funny skits in sexy clothes. It was held in a public place and was perfectly respectable. Still, these charities turned their noses up at it.

Fortunately we did find someone who was more than happy to take the 3K. If you are hard up for donations you can’t be too picky about where they come from.

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Okay, I was actually against the idea of Hooters being associated with the SPCA at first. I thought, damn right, it’s the wrong message to send. But I couldn’t quite put together a rational argument.

Then Hooters was compared to a strip club. And suddenly it occurred to me that when I thought of a strip club sponsoring the SPCA, I didn’t have any sense of revulsion at all.

So I guess it turns out that I just really, really fuckin’ hate Hooters. I can’t imagine any scenario where I would go into a strip club, but I swear to the puppygod you wouldn’t catch me dead in a Hooters. Something about the pretense that it’s about the food and not the boobies, but, by the way, bOObies bOObies bOObies bOObies bOObies bOObies !!!11!!! just makes my skin crawl.

But, uh, yeah, if they want to give money to help people neuter their pets, they should do that.

Side story–A woman in my area was going around asking if anyone had seen her cat, explaining that he had escaped from the house and run off. I was filled with sympathy, carefully scrutinized the photo she had, and jotted down her number in case I saw him, and told her that I sure hoped he was okay and would turn up soon. Then she commented that, well, he wasn’t neutered, and he sometimes ran off in the spring time, but he’s usually back in a couple days… I don’t know if it showed on my face, but all my sympathy instantly drained away. I could almost feel it happening physically. I was like, “Okay good luck buh-bye.” Our local SPCA periodically holds widely publicized free spay/neuter clinics, BTW, and if you stop by the shelter any time you can get a coupon good for a free spay or neuter at almost any local veterinarian. I saw that she put up posters a week later. sigh

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Sign in the women’s restroom:

“Employees must wash hands (and brush teeth) before returning to work”

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So there are thousands & thousands of men around the LA area who could carefully explain to their wives, “honey, the only reason the guys & I are going to Hooters is to save the kittens & puppies…”

Genius!

And really sad Animal Services backed out.

From the linked article, I liked this part:

:smiley: