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OPINIONS
[ Monday, Feb. 5, 2001 ]

Letter to the Editor
Society's ills everywhere, not at Hooters restaurant

So, let me get this straight. Penn State can have a Cuntfest and a Sex Faire, but a Hooters is a no-no? For the people who object to Hooters, how many of you have even been to one?

Sure the restaurant has scantily clad women, but on a summer's day, I guarantee you'll find even more scantily clad women sunbathing right across the street from the future (now former-future) site of Hooters.

Half the college-aged women in town dress even more suggestive than a Hooters girl outfit, and I don't mean that in a negative way.

Even high school girls these days make a Hooters' girl outfit look "business formal."

Are you afraid of having your child tarnished by the sight of a Hooters girl?

Then don't send her to school or let him watch TV or read the newspaper or use the Internet. I've seen Britney Spears on the Disney Channel in an outfit that is more suggestive than a Hooters girl.

Heck, put the child in a bubble, that way you don't have to be held responsible for not parenting your child, teaching the child the rights and wrongs of life, so that he'll know how to handle seeing a Hooters girl outfit.

Are you concerned that Hooters is derogatory towards women?

Hey, last time I checked, there's no "You must work at Hooters if you have a C-cup or greater" law.

Dressing in a tiny white top and orange shorts doesn't necessarily make a girl sexy. It doesn't make them more attractive. Suggestive? Sure.

But suggestive isn't always a good thing. In fact, many times it makes them look worse.

I don't know about you, but I go to Hooters for the wings, and not to get a date or for "entertainment."

It's not like the waitresses are swinging around poles between your appetizer and main course, and I think you'd get kicked out if you tried to tip your waitress by stuffing dollar bills in her shorts.

As for the wings, they would be some of the best in town. And you politically correct nuts? You guys could have something to complain about, not that you wouldn't already.

Tom Hoffman
Class of 1998
 



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