Letters to the Editor
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I think Larry Flynt could say...
exactly the same thing about his feminist enterprise. I sure the money in T&A has nothing to do with it.
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speaking of world upside down...
Have you seen the WaPo article about Hillary Clinton's cleavage?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902668.html?nav=hcmodule
(sorry to post somewhat off topic, but I can't find any path for sending in a tip. Does broadsheet have an email address?)
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holy crap
The Clinton cleavage article was HIL-arious! Thank you for brightening my boring Friday afternoon.
Anyway, I don't like the structure of the jacket (kinda boxy) in the picture, but I love the rose-pink color. And I would hardly call that v-neck cleavage revealing! Maybe it's because the weather is so damn hot right now that Clinton isn't covered up in a turtleneck.
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Maybe Christie Hefner on the cover of Bitch
Hef's daughter runs the show now.
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I frequently...
pass that restaurant, which is at the top of a subway stop I often disembark at. And along with the predictable young business guys with the identical short haircuts and white shirts, there are a large number of women, having a drink or nibbles in the lounge (which faces the front windows). Not saying the guy isn't justifying his t&a, but he's not whistling Dixie about the female clientele.
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How much for a topless shot of Hillary
Well, Ok - Bill then?
I think her back would have a more hip- hoppin chance though
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Classy
"There's nowhere offering women sexy in the way they would like it to be -- classy sexy!"
You know, because nothing says "classy" like light fixtures shaped like boobs.
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That's the new female empowerment
One look at the establishment - you see and know exactly what it is. Restaurant that serves OK food and has girls dressed up as sexy waitresses. Your choice to work there - or not.
I can see where this is going. More female exploitation! More females treated as sex objects, loved for their beauty and NOT their brains!
There is a difference between a woman choosing to work as a waitress, or choosing to work at the Gap/Mexx/Armani/any other retail outlet. But bottom line - THEY CHOSE to work where they are. Sure it's minimum wage working in retail versus minimum wage + tips working for say Hooters. But nobody's forcing them to work here or work there. It's not exploitation if they get to chose what they wish to do with their life.
They could continue their studies in law school and do the things they need to do as a law student. They could practice in medicine or do their time as any medical student would.
Look at Pussycat Dolls. They're hugely successful, they flaunt it, they know exactly what they're doing(lip syncing music with stripper dance moves), and they're getting away with it and making a killing in the process.
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Oh come on - that was funny ...and true - for so many - afet all it cant get much worse except too stay the same
my but you liberals r quick.
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But women WANT to look sexy, right?
Here's my favorite part:
"As further evidence of his urge to empower women, Riese cites...the menu's many diet-friendly options"
Yes, that's so-o-o-o-o feminist! Because I'm just positive that women are killing themselves with 300-calorie meals because they're so proud of their womanhood. It's not because they're trying to conform their bodies to an unnaturally thin body type in order to get ahead in a male-dominated society at all! Riese has figured out that feeling hungry all the time is what women want!
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He won
The restaurant owner just got a bunch of free publicity. Don't you think that's the thing he cares about most?
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That's sexist
"Diet-friendly" is not just for women, hello out there.
There are men who also cut down on the size of their meals or disallow themselves from eating certain amounts of food or certain types of food. We're not all barbarians just to clarify.
The weight trainers and fitness buffs amongst us know well the importance of measuring what, and how much, we eat.
Not just for the women.
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I don't agree
Without seeing the menu I can't comment on the calorie count.
But I do know that many of my female friends lament the lack of vegetarian or low calorie meals available at the cheaper one step above fast food joints like TGIFridays and Chilis.
Unnaturally thin, what men are demanding this? I don't know them, women do this crap to themselves.
Watch Friends from the first season to the last, do you think it was men forcing Courtney Cox and Jennifer Anniston to lose all that weight. Look at Sarah Michelle Gellar on Buffy, if you watch that show you see her get thinner and thinner as the years pass on and I don't think Joss Whedon or society at large was telling her to drop herself down to 95 pounds at the end of the series. Portia Derossi admitted to developing an eating disorder while working on Ally McBeal because all the women would talk about their weight non-stop and you can see it if you watch the series back to back as Portia gets thinner and thinner then returns to a normal weight while working on Arrested Development.
Women compete to be skinnier and skinner than their female friends.
I don't know men saying hey, I love Nicole Ritchie and Calista and Post Spices bony ass frames. They are not the standard, they are consistently ridiculed for being too thin.
The sex symbols or most desireable women touted tend to look like Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johanason currently, whom while all thin, are not super skinny. I maintain that weight similar to those movie stars without trying very hard, what don't I eat, things that come out of packages, fast food, and desserts, chips and candy bars are few and far between. I was overweight for a while and I'm not going to pretend that I was eating normally, I would gorge myself on processed packaged foods and fat and sugar were my delight. Plenty of women say that these women's weights are impossible for most women, well yes they are if you eat processed foods and don't excersize for at least a half hour a day.
My close friend is getting married soon, she has always been thin and has always maintained a size 8 (she's tall) but now that she's getting married, well she's just got to work out all the time and eat nothing but salads so she can be a size 6. She was never overweight, she has always been in good shape but now that pictures are involved she has convinced herself that she had to drop 15 pounds. It's not her fiance asking her to do it, she doesn't read fashion magazines and she never sat around discussing her weight and diet before.
We can't blame media or men for everything, there are plenty of women who just can't accept how they look is beautiful and insist on starving themselves or subsisting on fruits and veggies only to turn around and blame outside sources when I never noticed men or women telling them they were too fat.
Hell even when I was fat, my husband still told me I was beautiful but just wanted me to be happy and my girlfriends told me that I still looked fine and that the only thing to be concerned about is my health. Now that I've quit smoking and lost the weight down to a BMI of 19, I don't starve myself or work out excessively to maintain it.
As for this restaurant, if women want to work and try to make better tips for keeping themselves fit and using their genetic luck there, thats fine with me.