Is Hooters a Family Restaurant?

I took a Little League team to Hooters after they won a Championship several years ago. All of the boys, now young men, remember it fondly. These boys are all fine young men now, attending the US Naval Academy, Texas Tech University, LSU, OU, Milshap. All will go on to achieve great things.

Lighten up, have fun.

Your children will learn how to act from you. If you act like a pig in Hooters or anywhere else your children will be pigs If you just have fun and are respectful your kids will too.

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I think most are missing the point.. this is about the insidious sexualization of children that has become acceptable in our society. I agree wholeheartedly with what Rachel has written. As a parent it disturbs me that this filters down into everything our children are exposed to. (Anyone who has tried to buy clothes for a 6 year old girl will know what I am talking about!)

Children do copy what they see so we have to be vigilant about what they are exposed to. They do not just copy their parents behaviour but everyone they think they want to be like.

As a Catholic and an immigrant I'd like to say that I think this is a more important issue than immigration reform! And one that is too often brushed under the carpet.

Keep up the good work Rachel!

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it's not the sexualization of kids.
it's the exposure of kids who are naturally sexual
to an adult boob food focus restaurant and the
way society and individuals treat the topic of sex.
since i'm NOT a wing guy, i'm not a Hooters patron
but this is all pretty tame...even for kids.
adults? you guys are the ones who have
to address the topic of sex with yourself and your
kids. what is your male child going to do when
he sees micro bikinis on the beach in the summer
or a terribly small tight tank top in public?
explain it, don't complain or whine.

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Thank you Rachel for your article! I do agree with you. We have five boys and we will never take them to Hooters. Why in the world some parents today seem so anxious to expose their children to such hypersexualized environment ? Do they know what the name Hooters means? unfortunately this kind of immorality is becoming so normal that parents do not see the difference. Do they want their daughters to dress like the waitresses at Hooters do? There are many great family- friendly restaurants out there to enjoy. Good job Rachel!

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HOOTERS IS NO PLACE FOR CHILDREN!! NO IFS,ANDS, OR BUTS!!! I JUST LAUGH WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY HAVE GREAT CHICKEN WINGS. I HAVE ONLY BEEN TO HOOTERS ONCE. THAT WAS FOR MY GRANDSON'S 18TH BIRTHDAY. THAT IS WHERE HE REQUESTED TO GO. HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO GO BEFORE THEN!! WHILE I WAS THERE, I OBSERVED DIRTY OLD MEN SITTING AROUND WATCHING THE EVERY MOVES OF THE GIRLS WORKING. YES, THEY HAD BIG BOOBS AND REALLY SHORT SHORTS ON!! NO MATTER WHAT HOOTERS REPRESENTATIVES SAY, THIS IS A SEXUALLY ORIENTED ATMOSPHERE, AND NO PLACE FOR CHILDREN!!

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Thank you Rachel for this article. I completely agree with this and it is sad that Hooters is trying to market more towards younger people. I also agree with the first comment. I don't think we should take children there and I don't think adults need to be in that environment either. It is an opportunity for lust. There are so many better places to go and things to experience that are life-giving and true to our hearts desires. Why support an establishment that objectifies women?

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I don't need any medication nor do I need to lighten up to believe that the Hooters establishment is a disgrace. Most of the supporters are men who claim to love the "wings". I believe there needs to be way more moralistic people in the world. I can understand single young men, but I do not believe it is a place for married men or children. I do not have any "trust" problems with my man and by the way he believes the same as I do but I don't think it is a good idea or appropriate environment for a family man.

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There's no more reason to buy your 5 year old daughter a "Future Hooters Girl" shirt than there is to dress her in a pair of sweats with "Juicy" across the bum. Let kids be kids!

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I have actually seen Lesbian Hooters waitresses physically sexually harass the straight Hooters waitresses (in the restaurant and in their uniforms while working.) And then the two harassing waitresses intimidated the one harassed. I hardly think that this is behavior that I would want children to see.

Moreover, the only two women I have ever known to be whores, yes, actual prostitutes, were Hooters waitresses (in costume and working while making this known to me). No, neither incident was a joke. And no, I did not purchase their services. I hardly think that I would want children overhearing this.

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its not about trust. Who said anything about trust, its the message being sent to children. Let kids be kids. They have their whole life to go to a restaurant where they have claimed to be sexual entertainers (said by hooters)

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Truly sad that parents would even consider taking their kids to a “sexually charged” atmosphere where women clearly are degraded and sexualized. It is not healthy for kids to grow up thinking its normal to treat women primarily as a sex object. It’s also sad that a restaurant be named after women’s breasts. It is well known as a derogatory slang for the females “parts”, everyone knows it. My sister knows it, my mom knows it, the homeless guy on the bench knows it, even my damn dog knows it. The people at Hooters of course know it, but use the whole “owl” excuse to cover their asses and I’m sure laugh about it. I think women and men should be treated equally, but unfortunately sex sells, and women voluntarily exploit themselves. I guess we have gone backwards in time and money is more important than respect for oneself so women rationalize being sexually harassed. But to bring kids into it is wrong on so many levels. Morally and ethically, WOW…. It is shocking. Somewhere the “rights” and judgments of people’s choices got blurred in with idiocracy and stupidity. They say the parent is responsible for where they take their children and a lot of families are comfortable patroning hooters. Well I’m sure there are men out there that would take their 12 year old to a strip club because they are ok with it, but they make laws for imbeciles like that. So they slapped the 18+ sign on establishments like that just as they should with Hooters because clearly there are stupid parents out there. People get older which is a fact, they don’t get wiser which is proven. Its adult entertainment. Hooters openly says that and many other comments that back it. They have had dozens of sexual harassment claims, the outfits are skimpy with cleavage and ass cheeks hanging out, pictures with hidden innuendos in the restaurants pertaining to breasts and blonde jokes galore plastered all over the wall….this is insults+degrading-integrity = unbelievable! And they try to play it off as women having the right to choose where they can work and being empowered? what a load of BULL….we are talking a heaping load of horse shit for the purpose of benefiting the restaurant and getting the airhead waitress to think she is “empowered” ya, sure….while you’re at it, bend over a bit more to brush the wing crumbs off the table, I need a good look at those hooters…..This place is trash, it will most likely always exist and prosper from their faithful upstanding clientele, I mean “patrons”, but please let’s do something about taking the kids away from this smutty trash can of a restaurant. Let the white trailer-trash-can restaurant keep the filth inside and the kids keep some mental health by staying away before it’s washed away with this sexist crap. Take em to Chuck E Cheese or McDonalds for Christ’s sake. I personally don’t like Hooters (shocking) but there is nothing I can do about it. I am one of those people with morals, so I voice my opinion by not going and posting posts like this. But children in this environment is wrong. I’ts child abuse, and sexual abuse. The kids menu/kids eat free Sundays, color crayons, children sized T-shirts “future hooters girl” and high chairs need to be removed from Hooters restaurants as well as changed to an 18 and over adult restaurant....which from the pictures below, it clearly is...

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I have actually seen Lesbian Hooters waitresses physically sexually harass the straight Hooters waitresses (in the restaurant and in their uniforms while working.) And then the two harassing waitresses intimidated the one harassed. Moreover, the only two women I have ever known to be whores, yes,actual prostitutes, were Hooters waitresses (in costume and working while making this known to me). No, neither incident was a joke. And no, I did not purchase their services. And then there is the most disgusting of behavior by a Hooters Corporate Trainer outlined in the Jarman Gray case. To see a copy of the original court petition see The Smoking Gun website, or just Google Jarman Gray and Hooters. Hooters sure isn't a wholesome, "family restaurant" for the kids that the lying Hooters marketing campaign is trying to sell.

Also, if you disagree fine, say so. Then I will post some of my other Hooters true stories. You'll be sick when you hear some of them. What I am telling you is this: If you think it is all just no big deal that's only because you have no idea at all of how deep a cesspool the place can be. You just don't know. But if you make me, I will educate you as to exactly why Hooters is NOT a place you should ever take children.

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