Tired of the advertisements using
women's bodies to sell crap, Lesbian Avengers Gainesville will
utilize direct action to subvert those companies who make flagrant
use of women's bodies for capitalist profit.
Who's Who of Capitalist Fuckers (an
incomplete list):
Hooter's
Beginning in Florida in 1983, the
first of the trendy "breastaurants" manages to sexualize women's
labor via "Hooters Girls" serving food and drink. The server's
uniform (running shorts, midriff-bared T-shirts, and running shoes),
the logo (an owl with eyes as breasts and nipples), and the slogans
(such as "more than a mouthful") combined with the merchandise and
advertisements of "Hooters Girls" provides for restaurant sales of
around $100 million a year. Meanwhile, the women who work there are
paid $2.06 an hour or $10 an hour as models for billboards,
calendars, or at local charity/advertisement events. Of course, when
servers make big tips in exchange for work in a sexist environment,
not to mention the idea that this type of work may actually provide
for some women's "sexual liberation," the dividends of exploitation
are truly more than a mouthful.
Cafe Risque/Café Erotica - six
convenient locations
Food, drink, naked women from 11a.m.
'til 4a.m., a website that advertises "hot little teens," and dozens
of really cool neon billboards on two major interstates through
Florida; what's not to like?
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