Speaking of “human rights”, the New York State Division of – guess what? – Human Rights found that a dude who was banned from Hooters for harassing the waitresses has the human right to be hired by Hooters if he dresses as a woman.
The human right of the waitresses not to be harassed in the toilets and threatened with gun violence is of zero interest to anybody except, apparently, Hooters.
I’m glad there are still restaurants who look out for their employees.
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Unfortunate, but I doubt the restaurant had to hire the dude. They had to pay a settlement, which means the employees still don’t have to work with serial harrasser person. From the perspective of the waitstaff, still a win 😉 Though whether they can stay open in the face of an onslaught of such lawsuits in the future (and after one success there’s no reason there wouldn’t be more) is another matter.
In low-level service jobs, though, the difference between minimum-wage-hell and actually enjoying your job is generally whether managers are willing to frog-march customers out the door for swearing at employees or pinching arses. So no matter what kind of stupid the courts were engaging in, somewhere in there, there was a good manager.
Sad to say, this sort of harassment isn’t going to get attention from many “feminists”, since they think places like Hooters are gross. Since Hooters waitresses are buxom young women in skimpy shorts and tops and often come from working class backgrounds, they’re not of the “correct” class and have the “right” job for them to give a damn and go all #MeToo
“has the human right to be hired by Hooters if he dresses as a woman”
Well since no one else is going to say it….
The Hooters business model is based on women that are visually attractive to straight men – young and curvy with appealing faces.
This guy is hideous – too old, uncurvy and with an unpleasing face and would not be attractive to enough straight men to make it worthwhile to Hooters to hire him. Are they going to make Hooters hire ugly women in the interests of non-discrimination?
And… he’s a man with a kink, not a woman, so there’s that too.
I’ve known a few hooters waitresses. They don’t all look like the models on the billboards, but you do at least have to look ok in short-shorts. I believe there were some silly lawsuits back when, from fat girls, and men-not-posing-as-women. The chain survived those. The main draw of working at hooters is that compared to other restaurants… if you *do* fit the stereotype, the tips are very very good. If you don’t fit the stereotype, tips are probably about the same as working at Chili’s or Applebee’s… so why not work at a place where you can wear actual clothes?
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