So a girl walks into a Taco Bell wearing a fishnet shirt..

Besides everything that's being said on this board.. No. Plus, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2298394/board/thread/237623981?d=237951459 &p=1#237951459

It's just vulgar, meh. :/

(On the beach, in a night club; it's a whole different setting/story. No need to have topless women on the street, everywhere (like it's legal in some cities), it's stupid.. Just like (well-built) guys go around w/their shirt off, or whatever; It's stupid and distracting. :))

^^ NOT to mention a million guys waring tank-tops, when they should've been hitting the gym. (No, bulky arms - and the beer-belly to go along - do not *work* when you don't put in work.. At a certain age, you just gotta give it up, lolz.)

Taco Bell is a private company and can deny service to people based on most criteria you can think of. It'd be illegal for them to refuse service to people based on things like religion or race. But other than discriminatory issues like that they can do whatever they want. And no gender is not protected under discrimination laws. Businesses can flat out refuse to serve men or women if they choose to.

If Taco Bell said we won't serve women in mesh shirts (black shirts, sports shirts, graphic shirts or any other kind you can imagine) that's their right. No amount of complaining will change that.

You do not have a right to eat at Taco Bell. And Taco Bell cannot be compelled to serve you. If you want to patronize a shop you need to adhere to their rules. If you don't want to follow those rules you can find somewhere else to do business.

PS: This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R didn't exist.

It sounds like she was trying to draw attention to something but it simply wasn't the right context for people to have their minds changed. Demonstrations like this often hurt a cause, like exploiting open carry laws by carrying guns into a store because... guns are awesome? I don't know.

Imagine taking your kids into a store and two men are legally carrying assault rifles because they can. Your kids are scared, you're not sure what their motives are, the management is on edge so they call the cops. Nobody wants to have a conversation about gun rights at that point, everyone just wants them to leave.

In the Taco Bell example, the customers are probably not looking to reexamine the sexualization of breasts and the female body when they were just looking to grab some nachos. The management was probably aware of this as well and rightly asked her to leave.

I think a better approach (to start with) might be to hand out a pamphlet that's kind of her "95 Theses" on the sexualization of females in our culture. Then people can read it on their own time when they are more willing to have their mind opened up to other ideas. Then build from there.


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I feel like the important question here is, if a guy walked into a Taco Bell wearing a fishnet shirt, would he be treated the same way? And I'm not sure what the answer is - it may depend on when and where it happens, and who is in the restaurant at the time. I walked into a McDonald's once wearing a tube top (completely covered up as far as the law is concerned), and an employee still asked me to cover up. Bottom line, shirts and shoes are usually required in these contexts. Out on a public street is a different matter. Doesn't make a difference if a body part has been "sexualized" or not - how you react to it is your responsibility, not anybody else's. Nudists walk around in front of each other (and their kids) all the time, and they have better, healthier attitudes towards the human body than the rest of us.