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My Dad made a thing of taking me, a 12 year old boy back in the early 00s, to Hooters, for a while, and would encourage me to oogle the servers.
This is… previously, before this, I was raised extremely prudish and right wing nutjob style Christian.
My Dad just snapped, internally, at some point… alcoholism followed this.
… my parents are still married, for some reason, even though they have clearly hated each other for a very long time.
I wonder if your dad just wanted to get out and you were an excuse.
tho, extreme christian - maybe he was trying to make you straight via exposure
Fucking hell, that’s not surprising but fuck it’s weird. Sorry your dad did that to you
I appreciate the well wishes.
Yeah… I… have not had the easiest run at life, but, things have turned around since I ghosted my entire family a few years back.
I just recently read a piece in which it was noted that the hooters waitresses are great allies to closeted gay boys that get taken to hooters by parents or family to encourage ‘normal’ heterosexual behavior.
I want expecting that but it was a pretty great aspect of a phenomenon that always seemed very one dimensional and flat to me.
closeted gay boys that get taken to hooters by parents or family to encourage ‘normal’ heterosexual behavior.
…is that what hooters is for? That makes sense in a sad sort if way
Hooters is for any situation where you’re specifically not going to a strip club. Son ain’t showing enough interest in girls? Hooters. Daughter’s showing too much, but you don’t know how to tell her you support her? Hooters. Night out with your friends, but you don’t want your partner to be mad you went to a strip club? Hooters. Feel like a family dinner that makes the kids feel awkward as fuck? Hooters.
Yeah it’s weird to me too. Like, I can see how for a certain type of person who can’t really easily talk about emotions or other private topics, this can be an attempt to bring their child into adulthood and the world of expressing interest in women. But also, fuck it’s a weird way to do it. Just sit the kid down or go for a walk or drive and give them a dating talk.
is that what hooters is for?
It’s not for people that like good food.
It’s not what is for, but it’s how it’s used. /I/kieron155 found the link to the article:
Totally agree those women are not flat
I went to a Hooters once around 2006 or so. Their hottest wing sauce was called “911” and for fun when the waitress came around I pointed to that on the menu and told her that I was deeply offended that Hooters would dare to use our “sacred tragedy” of 9/11 for the name of some wings. She immediately got all bug-eyed and said “oh no no no no no that’s not what it means” and ran to get her manager. Manager dude came over and apologized profusely and insisted it was named after the emergency phone number. He comped the whole table’s bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates to boot. At that point I was way too embarrassed to admit I was just kidding.
I never ended up using the gift certificates. It helped that Hooter’s food sucks.
Is Hooters just an American maid cafe?
Yes but without maids
Dude yes it absolutely is
Yeah, I’m an absolute pervert but hooters feels icky to me. Like, I’ll gladly mix sluttiness, alcohol, and food. I’d love it if I could get some appetizers at a leather bar. And while strip clubs aren’t to my taste, I respect them as honest sex work at least on the part of the strippers and patrons. But hooters is this thin facade. It’s a place I associate with people telling themselves they aren’t going to a strip club. Whether it’s to introduce their son to manhood or to have a night out with the boys. It’s not a strip club, but very specifically so.
There was a place near me called Smut N Eggs. Was a bar that catered to graveyard shift, we’d swing there after work at 6 in the morning to kickstart our “evening”. Inside where you would expect to see sports games on the TVs around the bar, they had vintage porn playing. The walls were covered with centerfolds.
The waitress, Michelle or Chele for short, was about 50 years old, had a smokers rasp and the look of someone who’d spent most of her younger years riding on a motorcyle, and suffered absolutely no bullshit. The food was amazing, the vast majority of people weren’t even looking at the screens, they were just digging into their dinner or breakfast at 6 in the morning with a beer or three on the side.
Place burned down years ago…damned shame.
I’m rather upset your comment was so short because I was completely enthralled in your story.
Hooters is a pretty weird compromise between Moralism and Libertarianism - on one hand the whole point of it is “fat titties” and going there is an almost open admission of wanting to go see fat titties but on the socially acceptable side whilst just going to a strip joint fall on the not socially acceptable side.
In other words, Hooters is kinda like the “no man’s land” between the one side and the other in the weird war between Moralism and Libertarianism in America.
it’s so weird, too, because Hooters was originally founded to make use of a closed down strip club, and they just leaned on that as a gimmick. they hired all the sex workers who had worked at that strip club. but they did all as a joke.
like there’s a universe where hooters was founded by a locally owned employee driven co-op to keep the people who depended on that strip club solvent, and did their whole “it’s a family joint” as a schtick to maintain their employees’ dignities. instead we got buffalo wild wings that degrades their employees’ dignities even further than buffalo wild wings by objectifying them entirely and fetishizing the product they sell.
That second part sounds like the plot of an early 2000s raunchy comedy.
i was thinking that. like an adam sandler movie but where the writer is actually conscious of that teh objectification of women is wrong and also that sex workers will still need work once sex work no longer is viable, and that they possess skills that make them effective in other jobs
They’re kinda right. Hooters is what happens when there’s no outlet so it comes out weird
I’ve just spent a solid half an hour in this comment section…
For the wings, of course
I think the popularity of Hooters was because the lie that the stripper is in love with you is more believable at the Hooters.
Yeah, this isn’t “sexual repression,” this is sexual control. The point is that the attractive women is in a subservient position to you.
How about a vegan Hooters?
Lesbian bars don’t make much money unfortunately. /s
and now I’m wondering how many lesbians went to Hooters.
I can’t say what portion, but I certainly know the type
When I graduated from 8th grade (that might be different from yall, but i spent 9 yrs at a k thro 8 grade school) i wanted to go to south st with my school mates. Mom was insistent, that dinner was for me and the fams, but i could pick where we went. I was sour.
I picked hooters on delaware ave, those wonderful big tittied jawns put me up on the table, sang a song to me and there are some silly pictures that exist somewhere…
Anywhoots I forget my point. Yes lets not objectify anyone, but like any big corp or franchise, they have some workers who are great and deserve respect.
Me and a coworker could have stopped anywhere but we decided to eat at a Hooters just once so that we can say we did before it goes out of business
Their wings are terrible.
Nothing more honest as long as the exchange is fair.
spent a couple years somewhere in Europe. stuff i always thought should be normal goes without saying. strip clubs in the states aren’t normal. blame the blue-laws and 3.2 beer.
What do you mean? Can you give examples?
in Germany with $50 you can legally rent quality legal prostitute for an hour. every town has a ‘red light district’. in the states with $50 you can get drunk and frustrated at a strip club. was in the Army and drank a lot of beer.
