Stanwood wants to estab­lish a top­less bar called Gentlemen 131 within the next year.

Have you seen our movie the­atre, restau­rants and shop­ping cen­ters? No, of course you haven’t, because there are barely any of those as it is. To those of you say­ing this club will gen­er­ate busi­ness which will lead to more jobs and prof­its, I say no way.

I have a lot of respect for the female pop­u­la­tion in this city and believe we are a lit­tle classier than work­ing at a top­less bar. I would hope most girls hold them­selves to higher stan­dards than tak­ing off their shirt for a cou­ple bucks. If this is true, the club would have a small selec­tion of girls will­ing to work there.

I am not about to rip off my shirt to earn a cou­ple extra dol­lars, just so I can run into the nasty guys who came in the bar to stare at me the next day in class. I have bet­ter things to do than prance around like a half-naked Barbie doll.

I did not come to col­lege to work at top­less bar. What kind of expe­ri­ence do you gain from that? It is not the path I want to be on. I would rather be taken out to din­ner and have a guy actu­ally remem­ber my name rather than remem­ber me by what I look like below the neck.

I believe this town has other ways to cre­ate jobs and should not cre­ate some boys’ club for those who do not know what it’s like to have a girlfriend.

There will be a sparse num­ber of col­lege stu­dents and the high school teenagers won’t be able to walk through the doors. That leaves creepy, old sin­gle men left wan­der­ing at the top­less bar door.

This city should think about what busi­nesses it should bring to the com­mu­nity before it turns into another empty build­ing, again.

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