I’m so with you! AMEN

I totally agree, of course! I think it’s high time we women stop drinking the kool-aid and letting our daughters take sips as well. Hooters is NOT ok.

Ha, we aren’t only letting them take sips of the kool-aid, we are dunking them in head first.

I absolutely agree. I don’t understand how people can be offended by a nursing mom band then take their children for a meal at Hooters. It’s just so hypocritical.

LOL on the “Balls” idea And… ewww, I wouldn’t eat there either.

The women that work there don’t mind the objectification enough to quit working there and the men supporting the chain wont quit showing up just because it hurts some feelings… So maybe you should shove your social engineering up your ass.

I agree that Hooters is ethically disgusting. It’s just trashy and distasteful. I don’t think that women are insecure for disapproving of such degradation. I perceive more insecurity in the women who seek attention and reward for dressing like hoochies and in the men who reinforce such stereotypical, bimbo-esque behavior in young women. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being beautiful and appreciating your body but being drooled over along side a basket of buffalo wings is something I wish women would just get over.

So are you proposing we ban hooters or just having a bit of a whinge that the world is not how you like it?

It is a fact of life that men like looking at scantily clad women, this may upset some women and please others but it won’t be changed, we cannot ban nature, rather we have to learn to live with it.

Hooters are not trying to attract women or children to their establishments and no one is forced to go. If a child goes that is going to be down to the parents and I would be a bold voice indeed if I were to start telling other people how to raise their children.

Lots of things about the world drive me up the wall but I have to accept them. If other people behave differently then I just trust in the laws of natural selection and let them get on with it.

The tone of your article implies that us men should be ashamed of ourselves for desiring the female form. I am a feminist as well as a man (primarily because it is the safest banner under which to campaign for equality as a man) and I have preferences about the sort of women I am attracted to. This is not something I have control over, it is a preference, in the same way some people don’t like semolina. Were I a lonely man, hounded by desires and unable to act on them, should I be denied the opportunity to indulge those preferences because some people find the behavior distasteful?

“Why should women have to accept being objectified?”

Because the only way to avoid it is by avoiding men altogether or accepting that you will be evaluated as a sexual being. Hell, we are, just by different criteria.

I’m right there with you, but come on, women are definitely not the only group in the world that gets points for partaking in their own marginalization. Tell that to a black person who has to change her/zer/his speech patterns to get promoted, or any number of queer people in “straight camps.” A huge part of cultural marginalization in general is convincing the oppressed people in question that it’s perfectly natural.

I myself have never been to a hooters, so I can’t say what it is like. I would never take my son to one, but then I’d never go to one.

“Why should they have to put up with feeling uncomfortable just to fit in?”
Who’s to say that they feel uncomfortable in that outfit being surrounded by people? And how do you know they’re doing it just to fit in?
It’s entirely possible that those women LIKE being looked at in that light, not because they’re submissive or subservient to men, but because they may take it as a complement about their appearance that raises their self-esteem in our shallow society.
It is also entirely possible that they aren’t working there just to fit in. People need jobs, no matter where you are. Those women are working, they aren’t necessarily trying to ‘fit in.’

Thanks for noticing something that is glaringly obvious! Next lets go after how Dicks sporting goods sets an unreasonable standard for masculinity, shall we? Of course Hooters is chauvinistically inclined. The fact that you felt it was worth an entire blog post only speaks to your lack of interesting remarks on the issue of feminine identity as a whole. How about taking another stance?
What does it mean for masculine identity when men are taught that hooters is the end all of feminine identity? How does this perpetuate a culture of chauvinism, and patriarchy? And for godsakes, what does it mean to be a man who doesn’t want to go to hooters.
Those are questions I’d like the internet to answer.

I am in total agreement

I used to eat there all the time. I agree with you though, not a good place to be eating.

Not a fan of Hooters for either their food, service, or decorum. Its cheap and tacky and not my type of place. At least I went their once before I began to judge, people who make arguments on hearsay and other peoples observations and opinions only make themselves and their argument look stupid.

“Women are the only group in the world that gets points for partaking in their own marginalization.”

Seriously? How about every other marginalized group on the planet? That’s how marginalization works: you are bad (or stupid, incapable, lazy, oversensitive, perverted, etc.), but if you accept that you or your kind are bad, you can be a little less bad. I agree that Hooters propagates harmful objectification, but feminism isn’t the only cause out there.

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I`m from Norway, and thank god we have no Hooters restaurant here - it would soon be forbidden by the equality minister anyway

stop drinking on that hate-o-rade