If you've never been there yourself, like other's say, pop in for lunch and see what you think on your own. I've had lunch and dinner there myself. The wings are good, the rest of the food really isn't that great. The girls are cute, but the ones I've seen working are there to make tips for serving food. And that's basically all I saw them do. Wait tables. In shorts and showing a little cleavage. What's wrong with legs and cleavage? All women have it. All men look at it. Any man who says he doesn't is lying.
I would not allow my child to go to Hooters. I find the whole tight-top, short-shorts, "More than a Mouthful", hubba-hubba atmosphere insulting and degrading.
Insulting and degrading to whom? The girls who work there? Obviously not, or they wouldn't do it. The people who eat there? Obviously not, or they wouldn't eat there. So I can only surmise you mean insulting and degrading to you. In what way? How does it insult you? How does it degrade you? You're not the one wearing the shorts.
Their very work place uniform is meant to titillate.
Of course it is. That's the point. One of the reasons they are so successful.
I don't go to strip-joints and I don't go to Hooters.
Comparing Hooters to a strip joint is hardly fair. Hooters girls wear a tshirt that shows some cleavage and short shorts. They also wear support pantyhose under those shorts. They take your order and serve you drinks. They don't dance, sing or try to entertain you while you are eating. Since I would imagine you've never been to a strip joint, I can tell you that at a strip joint, those girls are all about dancing in your face for money. Depending on which state you live in, they can either go stark naked so you see everything, or some require them to wear thongs and pasties. There are rooms that you can pay extra to have one of them dance for you in private. They will dance on your lap, put their boobs and other things in your face and do everything but have sex with you. Comparing Hooters to a strip joint is hardly fair.
yeah to see how good it is to sit there and pay double the usual price to watch some jiggle
Again, I've never been to a Hooters where the girls "jiggle".
Ok you guys lets see how great the " real world" is, if say your 10- 16 yo daughter was working at Hooters and having real world experience having their goodies oogled by young men
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but your 16 yo daughters are being oogled by young men every day, whether you know it or not. And I believe you have to be 21 to work at Hooters.
In the news here in New York, 13 high school baseball players on a spring training trip in Cocoa Beach , Florida were suspended for the rest of the season , after school authorities found out they broke school and atheltic dept. code of conduct , when a parent took them to a strip club where they drank and had according to one of the students " some juicy " lap dances.
Again, Hooters is a restaurant, not a strip joint. Not a good comparison. And a very bad parenting choice. Not hardly what Tiggeroo has in mind.
the exploitation of women is what bothers me (& I know they work there willingly). It isn't what I'm about as a woman and definitely not what I want for my own DD.
Isn't it more about the exploitation of men and their desire to look at young flesh while having a beer and a couple of hot wings? They're the ones who part with the money; the girls are the ones who come out with the cash.
those are the women that fuel the fire that says we are nothing but sex objects
What's wrong with being a sex object? Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grabel... They all showed "flesh". Do you find them degrading too? They made alot of money showing off their bodies, did those of you who were 16 at the time not go to any of their movies?
Regardless of whether Tiggeroo lets her 16 yo son and his friends go to Hooters, those boys are still going to ogle young women. Use it as a teaching opportunity. Teach them there's nothing wrong with desire, admiring beautiful girls. The true test of a man or a woman comes in their ability to control those feelings and understand that they don't always have to act upon them.
and he married me anyway 
I looked a lot better in the 70's than I look these days.
