<p>Last spring I saw a high school cheerleading team doing a car wash in skimpy bikinis. Several girls stood by the roadside and flagged down customers. I thought that was a bit much and probably would have made my D wear shorts and a T-shirt if an organization she was in ever did an event like this. But no doubt others, like the men who stopped, thought it was VERY cute.</p>
<p>An area youth sports club which serves children from ages 4-14, is hosting a fundraiser in conjunction with Hooters. The coach wants the kids to stand near the restaurant and hand out coupons. Would you let your child (esp. young teen D) do this?</p>
<p>My D’s school dance team did a car wash fundraiser when she was in hs. It’s really hot here (90s) and they were told they could wear bathing suits but had to wear athletic shorts on as well. I think having the shorts on helped - if they were all just wearing bikinis it would have been too much.</p>
<p>When S was in middle school he tried out for a baseball team that was sponsored by Hooters. He didn’t join that particular team, but I felt very uncomfortable with the thought of a 12 year old boy wearing a Hooters t-shirt.</p>
<p>When D graduated from HS, one of her classmates (who was homecoming queen, a top student and attends a very selective university where she is pre-med) got a summer job at Hooters. This friend suggested to D that she get a job there too; I think she was told to recruit friends who would “look good in the uniform.” D is a feminist and was appalled by the suggestion.</p>
<p>IMO fundraisers selling chocolate, junk food, cookie dough are highly inappropriate given our nation’s problem with obesity and it’s complication.</p>
<p>It’s a great scene in “Cool Hand Luke,” but I wish high schoolers wouldn’t do the sexy car wash bit. I can see the cheerleaders thinking it’s all fun for a good cause, and the occasional sketchy guy thinking it’s something else. And the fundraiser at Hooters for young kids - nope, my kids would not have been there.</p>
<p>Fundraising at restaurants, wherein customers present a coupon and the non-profit receives a set percentage of the meal total, usually 10 percent, is not very effective, anyway. Maybe Hooters in this team’s area is a mega-attraction. But Pizzeria Uno will do the same thing and no one has to cringe over it.</p>
<p>I don’t mind the junk food fundraisers since they are marketed to adults. Don’t like it, don’t buy it. Washing cars in bikinis for HS students?! whoa! That’s tasteless and inappropriate.</p>
<p>They do a lot of car washes around here. It seems as though they wear the bikini top and shorts. However, there would be no need for me to forbid my daughter from wearing a skimpy bikini top: she doesn’t own one.</p>
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<p>Taunting/enticing grown men in wet bikinis is completely beyond the pale. It’s bad enough that so many young girls dress like hookers on a daily basis. </p>
<p>This all goes back to the sexualization of pre-pubescent girls in our society. I remember being appalled at a youtube video of a team of little girls doing Beyonce’s Single Ladies dance. Some of the stuff dance moms in another thread report having seen at competitions makes that look like Swan Lake.</p>
<p>I don’t have girls so its hard to say for sure what I’d do. I think, especially on a main thoroughfare, I’d prefer that the girls wear tshirts and shorts, though it might quickly begin to look like a wet t-shirt contest!</p>
<p>That said, for sake of a different perspective on the second issue, if a team is offered sponsorship by a restaurant such as Hooters, and they are in a financial bind and cannot find other sponsorship, should they tun down the Hooters sponsorship and possibly disappoint the team members if the team couldnt raise the necessarey funds? Hooters certanily wouldnt be my first choice, but I might pick it over no choice.</p>
<p>As an aside, I happen to often pass by the Corporate Headquarters of Hooters. Its an unassuming office bldg, but at night if its dark and the lights are on inside the bldg, there is a big HOOTERS sign or something on the wall behind the front reception desk that becomes very visible to the passsers-by.</p>
<p>If it was a boys team, and if the parent of one of the kids owned the franchise, woudl you still want the coach to decline? I can see both sides of this</p>
<p>Yes, jym626, if it was a boys team and one of the parents owned the franchise, I would still say no. I would say double hell no, and ask what the hell is everyone smoking that makes them think Hooters is an appropriate sponsor for a youth organization. We are just telling kids that money trumps principles.</p>
<p>I am glad it is the local deli and italian restaurant that typically sponsors the little league teams That said, I am hopeful we would never have to dsiappoint a team if we turned down a sponsor and the team was disbanded.</p>
<p>This thread is a waste of time, there are know “principles” at stake here for money to “trump”. If the fundraiser makes money without causing [actual] dissatisfaction (and obiously they manage to do so, the teams participate, after all), then the fundraiser was a success, that’s all that matters. “Ethics” and “morals” are all relative, the funds obtained aren’t. I’m a guy, and I’d rather wear a bikini in a car wash than sell candy from a catalog or sell cookie dough.</p>
<p>I don’t get the fund raising thing. If an organization needs money, and you want to participate, just pay for it, stop asking me for money. I don’t want some teen washing my car, it’s 5 min to go through the car wash. I don’t eat those cookies, popcorn, chocolate. My kids have better things to do than to ask people for money. If my girls want to expose themselves in order to make some money, it gotta be more than what those guys could afford.</p>
That said, I am hopeful we would never have to dsiappoint a team if we turned down a sponsor and the team was disbanded.</p>