Reply #27: Let's say I'm casting for a play about Mark Twain. [View All]

Mark Twain, as written in the play, is the old iconic white guy with the bushy hair and mustache.

So if I have two people show up for audition, one's a young black fat woman, the other's an old white guy with bushy hair and mustache. I can hire the old white guy, legally and ethically, even if the woman has had more acting experience.

Now let's say I'm casting for a musical production on Broadway. I can hire dancers under the same sort of rules.

And strip clubs are dancing, just like Broadway, even if they're considered much lower class.

Modeling position is the same thing. The job requires a certain physical appearance, I can discriminate based on physical appearance because it's part of the job. You can't do that for office clerks, or engineers, or school teachers. Because appearance is immaterial to the job, and it's illegal to discriminate in that case.

I don't know about Hooters. I suppose that since they're hiring not just waitresses but some kind of waitress/"model" position then it's valid.