Your letter was terrific. Can I send you a tip? :-)

Hi, my name is Suzanne and I worked for California girls for a minute. Almost literally. They hired me over the phone. Didnt ask for my drivers license, didnt even send me an application to fill out. I was just to show up at this house in Beverly Hills in a short, sexy black dress. I did. The host was furious! All of the valets had to change back into their regular clothes - going back to their cars to put on their jeans n stuff. It was a Barmitzfah for heavens sake!

A few months later, I replyed to an ad for Valet Of The Dolls. The training program at this company was intense. A HUGE manual, and several classes not only at a desk and chair but inside an automobile at the direction of a CHP officer!

Unlike, California Girls - now Valet Girls, 'Valet Of The Dolls' is a female owned and operated company and as the owner Gillian puts it, "because we're women, your looks are not as important as your personality, your smarts and how well you drive."

Any man or woman that bitches about how good looking women get all the breaks, well then stop giving it to them. Pretty people get breaks because people give them to us. It's not a pretty woman's fault that a nice rack makes men drool and part with their wallets. Hooters, strip clubs, Playboy, porn, and on and on exist because men pay for it.

I was a waitress and I made great tips from male customers simply because I have a nice body and a cute face. I’ve also gotten stiffed because wifey doesn’t like that hubby checked out my ass. Hell one guy I spilled water all over him on accident and his meal came out after everyone else, but he still gave me a 50 dollar tip for a 100 dollar meal. How the hell is that my fault?

So if a company wants to make money off of men's willingness to hand money over to hot girls over teenage boys well don't blame the women, blame the men.

Oh and as for the crack about California, like New York women don’t dress in skimpy clothing or trade on their looks, HA! NY is not the center of the universe, it is not the greatest city in the world, it’s smelly, crowded and dirty, the weather sucks, and considering all the navel gazing NY’ers do, ya'll think you are pretty damn important so I think I will stay in California where my educated girlfriends aren’t bitching about how they can’t find a man or have time to complain about valet services that hire women.

Hey Thom, if it makes you feel any better, I always give a bigger tip to waiters & ski instructors if they happen to be good looking & flirt it up a little.

Thom, I think you are kind of exagerrating how much choice women have.

Sure, the swimsuit model industry is mostly open only to women. However, for every man who wishes he could grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, there are a dozen girls wishing they could grow up and make a living playing a professional sport other than tennis or golf.

Leave the Valet Girls in California. But there is a telling, political side to this: young women can always trade off their sexual allure, and they needn't be in the sex industry to do it. Three hundred bucks a day? Good God! What I could've done with that kind of money when I was in my early twenties!

Young men can only profit off their looks if they're very, very good-looking (as Zoolander would say), or if their customers (in whatever fashion) are gay. A rather narrow spectrum, that, and it means something, because it's simply not fair. Young women don't have to be in the stratosphere of good looks to make solid money, and, suffice it to say, they don't have to be gay.

It is unjust, and that which is unjust creates resentment.

In a time when women are (quite rightly) demanding equal rights in those areas where, traditionally, they've gotten the short end of the stick, it helps to bear in mind that there are many areas where men are unfairly discriminated against, and nothing is being done to right those wrongs. And as much as women might laugh about that (and they do - I've heard them), and think these disparities frivolous (when they're noticed at all), there's no doubt that men are confronted with them everyday. We can't help but notice them, not to mention notice that women, for the most part (Hillary Frey being an exception), have no problem with exploiting these unfair advantages in their favor.

It is unjust. And that which is unjust creates resentment. Why? Because it should.

I have to say that I, too, take offense to the California reference. Doesn't sex sell everywhere? And don't companies exploit that everywhere? I'm sure New York is not exempt. In my opinion, the last sentence of this post doesn't mesh well with the purpose of a blog like Broadsheet.

You're almost making it sound like California girls are always on the verge of busting into a pole dance whenever they take a menial job. Last I looked, they weren't.

I'm sure California Girls are crushed to read that.

We think the Big Apple is better off with scrappy boys and girls, men and women, in their baggy olive drabs, trucking around downtown with messy hair and giant bags. We'll leave the California Girls where they belong: in California.

Yeah, because as we all know New York women are all about being scrappy and dressing in olive drab all the time. They NEVER dress in skimpy, trashy clothing -- especially in the summer, when skimpy clothing is virtually unheard of in the Big Apple. In fact, New York women are so down to earth that the fashion industry has a hard time making inroads into the city's market. Good luck finding any aspiring actress/model types in New York City. Just granola types there.

Anyways, thanks for leaving me with all the California girls. The ones I know -- here in the SF Bay Area -- are generally the smartest most interesting women I've ever met. I'll happily keep them if you are giving them to me.