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[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 69 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Growing up and never going there I always thought Hooters waitresses were topless. When I found out they weren’t, the whole thing actually sounded more pervy to me.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 75 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Strip clubs seem less demeaning to me lol. Hooters is basically if you took sexual harassment in the workplace and made it your gimmick.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've been into Hooters and nobody sexually harasses the workers. I'd even dare someone touch one of the workers innapropiately... I'd like to see the beating they'd get.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The point is that it's a restaurant based on sexually objectifying waitresses. Not that people act inappropriate. It's that the entire thing is inappropriate.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

And a stripclub is also based on that. Should we close strip clubs? Are you the one who is going to tell strippers that they can no longer work because their job is wrong? Should we also tear down the porn industry? Even women enjoy places and activities that objectify men. Have you ever seen a bachelorette party?

There are places for certain activities. Hooters is one of those places. Everything going on inside this place is 100% consensual.

There's a place in my city in which women actually touch and get touched by the male waiters. Pretty hardcore stuff... Most people agree that whatever happens in there is fine as long as people can't see from the street.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not sure what’s with all the hyperbolic rhetorical strawman questions. My entire point is that it would be more normal if it was a strip club instead of an almost-strip club, like I said originally. What I’m objecting to is that it’s setup like a normal restaurant. Seems kind of pointless, too. If you want to go somewhere and ogle naked women, great, just go to an actual nude club and don’t take your kids.

[–] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It’s like some of these people on here think that you get some wings and then rape the waitress for dessert.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Yeah, pretty much it's "let's train people to think of waitresses as sex objects and stare at their tits"

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

I remember the first time I went. A vendor took us there for a business lunch as a get-to-know-you. The other guys were excited but I had never gone before. I distinctly remember my disappointment at the buffalo chicken sandwich and thinking these cannot be wing people. The waitresses were pretty but it just seemed weird to me that they dressed like it was still the 80s (in the mid 2000s) and the environment almost seemed to promote sexual harassment. Like it was a sexual harassment training ground or something.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

It kinda is. If old perv dudes want to see boobs, theyre at the stop club. But here, they can get a stiffy while sitting with their young children.