What’s classier than eating defrosted chicken wings in an overpriced Times Square theme restaurant? Having those wings served to you by one of the thousands of New Yorkers with just enough pride to not want to strip for a living, but who will still take off their clothes for some vague promise of $500 a night. I mean, if I’m looking for a classy night out the first thing I say to my wife is “Hey honey, let’s hit a theme restaurant like Hooters, but with less clothes. And it wouldn’t hurt if they had a bunch of strippers who thought they were too good to dance in an actual club Pussycat Dolling it up while I wolf down a cheeseburger” at which point my wife just looks at me.
Just kidding, I’d never say that because I’m not a douchebag. If I want to see strippers I do so after my meal, and not that my wife’s not my best friend, but I prefer to not have my old lady sitting next to me while I tuck singles into the cleavage of the single mothers/lesbians whose most attractive feature is how much worse their lives are than yours.
If that’s how strip clubs work, I’ve never been.
But it seems I’m in severe disagreement with the managers of Hawaiian Tropic Zone. The managers there, managers who work at a restaurant on 42nd St where girls in bikinis serve inedible food to middle-aged virgins while a second rate cheerleading squad does the dance routines from In Living Color, think the above young lady isn’t classy enough for their fine establishment.
Apparently they told Melody Morales she’s “too ghetto” to work at HTZ, or as I like to call it Hooters 2.0. From the NY Post:
She had everything a bikini-themed restaurant could want – waitressing experience, ample motivation, and a more than ample bra size of 34-D.
But pretty Melody Morales says she was still rejected for a job at Times Square’s Hawaiian Tropic Zone – because she “talks ghetto.”
“We will not hire you because you have a ‘speech problem,'” a Hawaiian Tropic Zone manager told Morales, according to her million-dollar Manhattan Supreme Court discrimination lawsuit. “You have a Latin accent. You don’t speak white.”
Morales countered: “I’m five-foot-six. I’m slim and slender. I got boobs. Ok? I was perfect for the job.”
The restaurant is already reeling from a $600 million federal lawsuit from October, in which four waitresses say managers looked the other way while a general manager repeatedly sexually harassed and assaulted them.
Classy. Melody is sure missing out working there. But let’s be honest here, Melody is more qualified than most of their girls to bring sub-par dishes to men who aren’t allowed by their wives (or restraining orders) to actually visit strip clubs. She seems like she would do a great job catering to unimportant middle managers who frequent such places in an attempt to at least pretend they’re living the high life while eating HTZ’s famous and notoriously bland “Hung” (get it?) Barbecue Ribs with a side of their no doubt delicious pre-frozen garlic spinach. After all she’s worked at Hooters.
And she looks like this:
Whereas if I was a judgmental man I’d say the rest of the HTZ girls (all found on their website with pics and a short bio) range from equally as attractive as Melody to Hunt’s Point street walker in caliber. And while I haven’t heard any of these women speak, the charge that Melody Morales’ accent is more “ghetto” than the rest of the women is highly dubious, especially since three of them are from Brooklyn. And you know what those people sound like.
The managers apparently demand that the women working there “talk White” whatever that means. Here’s more class via The Daily News:
A former Hooters girl who says she’s got the right assets – but the wrong accent – is suing the Hawaiian Tropic Zone for crushing her dream of working as one of its bikini-clad beauties.
Melody Morales said she was rejected for a job by a manager at the Times Square restaurant who griped, “You don’t speak white” and “you are ghetto.”
The 21-year-old Latina lovely is the latest woman to sue over working conditions at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, where employees in skimpy beachwear parade nightly before diners.
“Not to brag, but I look good in a bikini,” Morales said Tuesday. “I could have done a perfect job there.”
The suit says Morales went with her mother to the restaurant last March in search of a job. It claims a manager told her to get lost, saying, “I am not going to ruin my business with your Latin accent.“
So f’n classy. I wish I could go there now and order one of their “Bazoomba” platters. Who would have thought New York was full of bigots? I mean except for people like me who have actually lived there.
I hope Melody Morales gets millions. I also hope that those millions change her perspective on things. Also from The Daily News:
Morales, who said her dream job is to pour drinks while strutting her stuff in a bikini, returned to the Hawaiian Tropic Zone months later still in pursuit of a position.
Thanks for helping children realize their potential New York Public School teachers! You’re worth every penny.
After she was insulted she came back willing to work for the same people. Melody, you could do better than that. Red Alerts is behind you 100% so go to college, remember you’re more than just a collection of nice parts, and support Red Alerts by taking a photo of yourself holding up a sign that says “I Love Red Alerts!” in a bikini.
But not that Puerto Rican flag one, it’s kind of ghetto.
ROFLMAO!!! Oh, Rob, I SO needed this! This is awesome! I couldn’t stop laughing. LOL! The break we all needed. Awesome!
Came back for another laugh. LOL! This just has me rolling! It did much for lifting my spirit, which as you know was in desperate need of it! Thank you!
I’ve seen a lot worse, wanted for a lot more. As for being ghetto, I don’t see any crank craters on her face. I wonder what her mom looks like? As usual your absolutely right! This girl chose not to be sexually exploited in a strip club, but instead in a burger joint. Obviously, the restaurateur is discriminating because she is Hispanic. Personally, I like all flavors of ice cream, and I would certainly think that at least one of this restaurant’s patrons would like coca creme.
The weird part is they have women just as “ghetto” working there already. My vote is that they wanted to hire women they could sexually harrass and the whole “you can’t work here” stuff was a ploy to get her to offer them “incentive” if you know what I mean.
Being a native New Yorker, I am all too familiar with that typical NYC Puerto Rican and or Dominican accent. I’d rather poke my eyes out than have to listen to this nonsense. It’s not an accent but proof positive that ignorance exists and can actually be passed off as an accent. Melody’s biggest problem is that she is another beautiful girl with low aspirations. Be that as it may, she could have very well gotten the job, but that urban nonsense has got to go. KUDOS to this club for saying ENOUGH ALREADY! The truth hurts .. so now Melody has to deal with it! She should try a diction/speech coach.
Says the man posting under the handle “Razorfish”
Grow up a little. Her accent is nowhere near as grating as a thick Brooklyn accent or the effeminate whimper/whine that characterizes the hipster douchebags that mince through NYC in “ironic” kangol hats and glorified purses that they claim are satchels but are usually filled with guyliner, cheap girly cologne and no doubt some sort of male tampon.
Speech coach? What are you from Victorian England? The club is a BIKINI RESTAURANT. They’re no classier than anyone, and since it was apparently run by rapist/sexual harassers they’re a damn shot less classy than even the most unintelligible chola.
The funny part about your comment is that you’re no doubt some Obama supporting crotch-goblin but when no one is looking and you can post under a name a 13-year-old would think is cool your true colors come out. Racist, stupid and as catty as a cheerleader. Turn in your man card.
Red Alerts is a pro-Melody Morales zone. So complain about her stealing your gay-for pay boyfriend somewhere else.
And a New Yorker complaining about people’s accents making them sound ignorant? Really?
“Speech coach” is almost as funny as the blogpost. LOL
You know, the whole time I was reading this (yes, for the third time), I couldn’t help but think how weird this guy is. Don’t speak “Latin”?! Latin women – and with HER body! – are majorly IN right now.
I think you’re right, Rob. They saw a woman who wouldn’t put up with their touchy-feely shit. I think their hostility toward her is like any man who comes in contact with a strong woman who is also hot as hell: Pissed because here was a nice piece that he would never get to touch without drawing back a nub.
You go, Melody! (Although, do get some self esteem and ditch your mom for encouraging you to set your goals so low!)
Dangit! Sorry for posting under this and SMP. I know I’m confusing LOL.
Agreed. Melody could aim a little higher but those managers are just scumbags.
Rob said:
Hey, I was with you until that comment. Don’t make me go all Bronx on your ass.
I think we need Rudy Giuliani to come back and clean up Times Square again. He could purge the “classy” establishments like Hawaiian Tropic Zone and bring back old standbys like Peep-O-Rama where at least they embraced women of all ethnic backgrounds.
Jen: Winner for most Awesome post of January 2009! ROFL!!! I have a feeling you won’t be allowed to work at Hawaiian Tropic Zone. They like their women submissive and clueless LOL. “Peep-O-Rama” LMAO!
Thanks, American Viking. I’m honored. :b
The best part is, I didn’t make up Peep-O-Rama. When I was a kid, I actually had to walk past Peep-O-Rama and Show World (and plenty of places without discernible names) on 42nd St to get to the Port Authority bus terminal. The signs in the windows said, “Live Girls” and “25 cents,” and you had to side step angry feminists down the block handing out “Porn = Rape” brochures. Oh, the memories.
Peep-O-Rama!! I used to go those after a few beers at the Metropole! The good old days.
Hey, my name is Hope Melody. I am not writing because I sweat what this other Melody Morales does. I just want to write that we are living in a world of disgust. My daughter is 8 and made absolutely beautiful. I would never want to see her pose in her underwear for someone to lust after her. I raise her to know her body is too special for all that Why show strangers your body like that? They don’t love you. God loves you though, and wants you Hope Melody Morales and the rest of young women and men that strut their stuff like that to know, your body is not supposed to be put out there like that. You save your body for your mate, not the world. You need to not deceive your own hearts, and know money is the root to evil, self controll is good to have. Women, i suggest you stop letting this world and its customs continue to oppress you. Its killing hearts. You have men that talk about strippers and wives in the same sentence. where is the love in that alone? Ladies stop being week and allowing a man to hurt ur spirit, we are better than that!
What are you Muslim? The human body is beautiful and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to see beautify in the world. I doubt that a divine being would make people attractive but deny others from seeing that.
Does your god hide sunsets? Rainbows? The divine wants us to see the beauty in all things, it is our inability to accept that that creates vulgarity and degradation.