This post isn’t going to be very long. I’m just writing it as a response to all the crap I recieved yesterday from anonymous – and hostile – idiots on Twitter.
For those of you who don’t live in South Wales, a huge debate has recently surfaced over plans to open a Hooters restaurant in Cardiff (our capital city). The complaints arise from a group of feminists claiming the chain is responsible for a lot of sexual exploitation and that it’s arrival would be a “step back” for equality in the city.
Uh huh.
I argued the point, yesterday, that no woman is actually forced to work at Hooters and that every girl who does is well aware of how she’s required to dress. These jobs could also provide a lot of students with financial aid or help out a lot of people struggling to pay off their debts (I mean, there’s a shortage of employment opportunities at the moment, for godsake). I actually got a lot of backlash saying that my opinion wasn’t valid because I believe all women have every right to a choice. (Does that make sense to anyone? Because it sure as hell didn’t to me.) I actually got a lot of feminists saying that I was ridiculous and wrong because I was disagreeing with their opinion. Okay …
I’m going to make my point clear and concise right here, right now.
First of all, this is a city. We have far worse things than Hooters already – We have an abundance of strip clubs, ‘red light’ districts, sex shops, and girls who make a habit of walking around in short shorts with their boobs hanging out every single weekend.
And second of all, this whole Cardiff Hooters debate is another bullshit example of people in the Western world not realising how lucky they are to begin with. You want to talk about exploitation? Go and sit next to the hundreds of children who are exploited for labour or sold as sex slaves every single day and tell them why you think a charitable restaurant chain is worth getting more worked up about than their suffering. The Cardiff Feminist Network need to try living a week in a country with Sharia law before bitching about something as trivial and insignificant and ‘degrading’ as Hooters.
