WOMEN NOT FOR SALE

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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