No 'hooting' allowed in Fayette

No

'hooting' allowed in Fayette

I'll say it: "Keep the smutty

Hooters out of our backyard!"

We need to be right up

front, "in-your-face" bold about it! There's no

need for any explanations, apologies, or justifications

for the expression of the truth about this

"restaurant," and that we don't want it here.

This is one reason why smut runs rampant - we're too

busy justifying why we're entitled to our

"opinion" than taking a successful and

effective stance. The opponent has us in a losing

position before we even get started!

What is the matter with

people nowadays; have a little gall, will you? How about

concrete suggestions on how people can help oppose this

"showy exploitation" that's trying to pass

itself off as being just another normal part of our

little community.

My suggestion has been to

refocus on the issue that's pending very soon, for we

really don't have time for anything else! Anybody have a

successful plan of action? Hooters isn't just a

restaurant, could it need special zoning for what it

really is? I'm no lawyer; maybe a community-hired lawyer

would be effective in exercising our right.

Years ago, some of the

students at Kennesaw State College were successful in

changing the name of their "Hooter" stadium

because the popularity of the restaurant chain made it a

derogatory name.

Hooting and jeering to

refer to the restaurant's meaning of the word had become

a verbal harassment to female students, extending the

Hooters chain's degradation of women further beyond

restaurant propaganda. The stadium originally had this

name, innocently, because of the school's owl mascot,

which had to be changed as well. Dignity and orderly

conduct was eventually restored, especially for the

female students who were in the majority due to the

nursing school that was a part of the college.

We will not stay in this

county if it allows the degradation and deterioration

that will result from allowing Hooters into our

community. Why, we could live in Daytona, or Panama City

Beach. They have Hooters restaurants too, but at least

they aren't considered normal, mainstream towns. They

wear their true colors as the vacation holes that they

are, offering something for everybody. And there's an

ocean to boot!

I may as well say,

"Pack your bags, honey, let's move to the

beach!" than stay here and watch our county take the

next step beyond the sexual-assault of

"in-your-face" magazines at our store

"check-it-out" counters. (Ever notice how the

right to "have" or "do" something

seems to supercede the right to an unpolluted

environment?) These magazines will be everywhere, but

there are still plenty of communities without Hooter type

holes to crawl into.

Hmmmm, good food for

thought!

Frana Sullens and family

Current Fayette County

residents