Oh Yeah. Here is a real great way to enrich our cultural value of Bako. Let me put it this way, think about raising your own flesh and blood daughter to tell her, please fulfill my dream for you of being able to simply measure your value to society from the way you look. If you hang out of your shorts and fill out your tee-shirt just right you can raise the gross revenue of this restaurant, and in the process you can get a $20 tip, instead of a $5 dollar tip, if you do it well enough to sexually excite some strangers who do not really care if you have any other talent or culturally enhancing value. What a great way to grow the physic of your daughters. Tell them how much of their value is directly proportional to their looks.

I disagree thar, Kelly m'dear.

First, there is nothing whatsoever degrading or unhealthy about making ones' self appealing to the other gender, and there is nothing degrading about the other gender finding that appealing.

But more importantly, what makes this an either-or question?  She might be going to college, and a fatter tip sure would come in handy.  Or, a little farther afield, it might be a retired lady who is proud of how awfully well she has preserved herself.  What's wrong with a little pride?  :-)

I completely reject the notion that a sexually appealing context makes something degrading or unworthy.  Balderdash.  Being sexually appealing is, to me, just another aesthetic beauty in the same vein as good music, skilled writing or masterful art.

Well, that's just the nature of their business.  That's their draw.  I see nothing wrong with that.

If you're a recording company, you're worth more if you sing better and/or can write better music.  If you're a newspaper, you're worth more if you write well in concise news style.  Now, if the Californian started hiring journalists based on sexual attractiveness, then we'd know something is misguided.

There's still this implication that a business that deals in sexual attractiveness is somehow a bad or uncouth thing.  I firmly reject that implication.  :-)

(Didn't mean to start a heated debate, but where else can you find a guy to wax intellectual about Hooters?  ;-)

Hardline,

If you have a goal of promoting sexual stimulation outside of a marriage relationship, or profiting off of that stimulation, then Hooters is an effective venue, as well as many others. One in town even has one 'ugly' girl, or at least they claim to have one.

I can't make the connection of serving food, while promoting sexual stimulation, to an art like music, or to a communication vocation like journalism.

Thanks, Andrew, that's exactly it.

Sexual attractiveness is a unique kind of beauty, just as is a Picasso a beautiful kind of painting, or Strauss a beautiful kind of music.

And there is a counterpart in the food industry: gourmet cooking.

That, too, is its own kind of beauty and art.