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Feminist group NOW targets beautiful Hooters waitresses for corrupting youth
Hooters waitresses at the GUY EXPo in Houston, TX inside the George R. Brown Convention Ctr
by Joseph Ernest December 17, 2010
Newscast Media -- The feminist group National Organization of Women, California chapter, is targeting Hooters of America Inc. for having a bad influence on youngsters. It's about the children, NOW claims. California has 24 Hooters restaurants who hire women in their 20s, and the criteria is that the girls should be beautiful and well endowed.
The Atlanta-based company says the Hooters girls exude "natural female sex appeal." And, as its website says, "Sex appeal is legal, and it sells."
The company admits that 10 percent of the parties they cater to have children attending them. However, NOW president Patricia Bellasalma says Hooters can't have it both ways. She noted that in California both state law and many city ordinances forbid strip clubs, X-rated video parlors and similar establishments from admitting kids.
NOW president Patricia Bellasalma is offended that
beautiful waitresses are corrupting the youth
And so, NOW said it filed written complaints with district attorneys in three California counties demanding a probe of Hooters because of its asserted "sexual entertainment of minors."
A couple of complaint letters were headed in the direction of Kamala Harris, San Francisco district attorney and attorney general elect whom feminist groups including an early endorsement from now helped get elected to office.
Other complaints were filed, or planned, in Sacramento, Orange and San Mateo counties. When it comes to Hooters, "I have issues on many levels," Bellasalma said.
Bellasalma says Hooters is marketing to kids, selling T-shirts with slogans like "Hooters Girls Dig Me" and "Future Hooters Girl" in children's sizes. Apparently NOW finds those slogans extremely offensive to children.
It's ironic that NOW claims to be an advocate for women's rights yet in October 2010 this same Patty Bellasalma endorsed Jerry Brown for California governor after his staffer called Meg Whitman a whore. She then said that while calling Whitman a "whore" was a poor choice of words, the description was accurate.
University of Virginia professor and political analyst Larry Sabado concluded, "Hypocrisy is never pretty, though it is the lifeblood of politics."
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