I'm heading to Tempe now. Anyone else wanna come?
Posted on 10/28/2006 6:16:26 PM PDT by WL-law
Please read, and take special note of the transformation of "misogeny" to massageny" about 1/2 way through the story -- Enjoy! (Oh, and and please contact Nicole -- see invite at end of the story.)
Pretend nurses in skimpy outfits raise ire
By Nicole Beyer, Tribune October 27, 2006
Waitresses who dress like nurses in skimpy outfits at Tempe's Heart Attack Grill have raised the blood pressure of nursing advocates who say the costumes degrade the health care profession.
According to the Center for Nursing Advocacy, how the waitresses dress contributes to the sexual abuse of nurses who work at hospitals, clinics and doctor's offices.
"That makes people believe that on some level that maybe nurses do provide sexual services," said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing Advocacy. "Every day nurses write to me how they're groped and they're grabbed in the workplace."
The argument has been voiced to the restaurant's owner, Jon Busso, who calls himself "Doctor Jon." He said he has received 500 to 600 e-mails on the topic, and complaints range from how waitresses dress to how they interact with customers.
The pretend nurses wear short skirts and low-cut shirts that sometimes show their mid-driff area, along with costume headpieces. Almost every wall inside the Heart Attack Grill is covered in mirrors.
The servers not only deliver the food, they sit at the table with customers while they eat. Somtimes, they role play.
"If they're like, ‘Oh, I'm having a heart attack,’ then, I'm like, ‘Oh, I'm a nurse,’ ” said Caterina Andorfer, an 18-year-old employee.
If customers have too much to eat, servers will push them in wheelchairs out to their cars.
"They certainly aren't jiggly sex objects," Busso said. "To say there is any massagany here is absolutely ridiculous."
The Center for Nursing Advocacy thinks it's a much bigger issue because the restaurant perpetuates a link between nurses and sex objects. Summers said that's why some people choose not to go into the nursing profession.
"No self-respecting man or woman would want to become a nurse in this environment where nurses are constantly depicted as these bimbos," Summers said.
An employee at the Heart Attack Grill disagrees.
"I'm a nursing student and I don't care," said 21-year-old, Lindzy Talbot.
Busso said he has no hard feelings toward real nurses, and offered free French fries to any nurse who visits his restaurant.
"I feel sad in my heart for those that can't laugh and have a good time with us," he said, "because we do every day."
Contact Nicole Beyer by email, or phone (480) 898-6500
My favorite malapropism, which a friend actually used unintentially is "all the colors of the rectum." I really like it and use it whenever I get the chance.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Massageny....Progeny who practice massage
You are right. The only persons I have seen lately in a nurses uniform were two rather large colored ladies at a big funeral for a black friend of mine.
Nurses used to wear hats throughout their career that were designed by the school they wnet to. No hats anymore and scrubs.
Funniest unintentional Malapropism -- Editor, please?
Redundancy alert: if it's truly a malapropism, it's unintentional.
On another subject, my local newspaper once placed the following headline on a story about Bill Clinton's interaction with a recalcitrant Republican-controlled Congress:
Clinton Struggles to Pass Something
I like to think that the editor grinned as he wrote it.
If women rub you the wrong way, you might be suffering from misogyny...;)
All the colors of the rectum. What a scream!
You mean all the colons of the spectrum?
They could check my blood pressure...without a monitor.
Get women to sign a petition to STOP WOMEN'S SUFFERAGE.
Many woman have no idea what it means but it sounds awful.
LMAO
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