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Harmless Hooters?
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Lions and tigers and Hooters, oh my!...
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leavea&m
posted 12/31/07 @ 12:11 PM CST
Originally posted byMichael G. Swistak
This is absolutly unnecessary. Attacking a resturant because of the girls that work there? They are just like everyone else, I would know because I dated one of them for the longest time. Hooters has a very classy work ethic. The girls are not allowed to give out their numbers (it may happen but Hooters is against it), they must cover up their outfit when they leave at night and they do a wonderful job at providing scholarship opportunities to the girls that work there. I am sick of hearing about how liberal College Station is getting especially with the females....and look, HOOTERS IS BEING PLACED IN BRYAN!!!! It isn't even our town nor should it effect us at all. Go to Blinn if you want to protest it, but keep it out of A&M.
Either you were joking or you are incredibly stupid. This article was SATIRICAL - not serious. The author was making fun of all of the bible-thumpers who got their panties in a wad (sorry - "under garments" in a wad) over the new Hooters - not joining them in protest. Please leave A&M immediately.
Mark Hamill
posted 1/09/08 @ 2:59 PM CST
[QUOTE]
Either you were joking or you are incredibly stupid. This article was SATIRICAL - not serious. The author was making fun of all of the bible-thumpers who got their panties in a wad (sorry - "under garments" in a wad) over the new Hooters - not joining them in protest. Please leave A&M immediately.[/QUOTE]
Travis is incapable of writing a decent opinion article, let alone one done in a sarcastic manner. With a semester filled with opinion pieces decrying anti-war "whores", repeated non-issues, and just a lack of copy-editing, you can't possibly expect people to be able to tell the difference between sarcasm and stupidity at the Battalion.
Either you were joking or you are incredibly stupid. This article was SATIRICAL - not serious. The author was making fun of all of the bible-thumpers who got their panties in a wad (sorry - "under garments" in a wad) over the new Hooters - not joining them in protest. Please leave A&M immediately.[/QUOTE]
Travis is incapable of writing a decent opinion article, let alone one done in a sarcastic manner. With a semester filled with opinion pieces decrying anti-war "whores", repeated non-issues, and just a lack of copy-editing, you can't possibly expect people to be able to tell the difference between sarcasm and stupidity at the Battalion.
A. Brannon Kroll '01
posted 6/13/07 @ 8:42 AM CST
Great satire, Mr. Holland. In all seriousness, malcontents, feminists, and do-gooders all need to get a life and eat some fried pickles.
Katherine Coley
posted 6/13/07 @ 8:45 AM CST
Personally I think the ordeal with Hooters objectifying women is an old issue. I have been to a Hooters, once, though looking at those girls upon entering I did want to high tail it out of there knowing how crappy I looked. If you don't like the restaurant and how it portrays women, just don't go there. Sure I'm all about women power, but for some women their beauty is their power. Hooters lets them embrace that. For all we know half the girls that have worked at Hooters could have gone on to be gorgeous models or work for Playboy or something of the like. Do some research before you attack an establishment. Sure guys love staring at cleavage while they eat, but that is just the male nature. I'm sure the hype wouldn't be anything like this if the restaurant was called "Pecks" and it was a bunch of hot guys walking around in tight little shorts and no shirt. And as for the "traffic safety issue," men are not that mentally challenged. They know cars, and they know breasts. And when they see either one they usually just stop and say "Sh*t!"
Karl
posted 6/13/07 @ 1:10 PM CST
Coolest.girl.ever. Haha, are you single? =o
anon
posted 9/15/09 @ 8:36 PM CST
It's been 2 years since this article came out, I know, but after rereading it and this post I've come to one conclusion...I concur with the anonymous post from 6/20/07. My opinion is that the author loved Hooters a little too much and was a bit too ticked off about something when he wrote this. Was this an attempt at satire? Sure. Was it successful? Not really, save for the final few lines. I was so bored reading the article I almost stopped halfway through to catch the punchline. Yep, sadly this was more akin to a bad joke than a piece of satirical literature. Maybe next time...that is, if you ever manage to succeed in working at any credible newspaper/magazine. Gig'em.
Originally posted byKatherine Coley
Personally I think the ordeal with Hooters objectifying women is an old issue. I have been to a Hooters, once, though looking at those girls upon entering I did want to high tail it out of there knowing how crappy I looked. If you don't like the restaurant and how it portrays women, just don't go there. Sure I'm all about women power, but for some women their beauty is their power. Hooters lets them embrace that. For all we know half the girls that have worked at Hooters could have gone on to be gorgeous models or work for Playboy or something of the like. Do some research before you attack an establishment. Sure guys love staring at cleavage while they eat, but that is just the male nature. I'm sure the hype wouldn't be anything like this if the restaurant was called "Pecks" and it was a bunch of hot guys walking around in tight little shorts and no shirt. And as for the "traffic safety issue," men are not that mentally challenged. They know cars, and they know breasts. And when they see either one they usually just stop and say "Sh*t!"
Joe
posted 6/13/07 @ 9:50 AM CST
Hey Michael and Katherine, how about you read the article before you start attacking it!?
It's satire. It's making fun of all the people who protest Hooters. Good Lord, people. Can The Batt ever do a sarcastic article without someone freaking out, thinking the writer was serious?
It's satire. It's making fun of all the people who protest Hooters. Good Lord, people. Can The Batt ever do a sarcastic article without someone freaking out, thinking the writer was serious?
anonymous
posted 6/20/07 @ 9:35 AM CST
In their defense, it was really poorly written satire.
Originally posted byJoe
Hey Michael and Katherine, how about you read the article before you start attacking it!?
It's satire. It's making fun of all the people who protest Hooters. Good Lord, people. Can The Batt ever do a sarcastic article without someone freaking out, thinking the writer was serious?
Joe
posted 6/20/07 @ 11:32 AM CST
Poorly written?
So apparently paragraphs like...
"Is Hooters really the biggest problem the Bryan-College Station area has to worry about? Yes. We should ignore a drunk driving epidemic and two recent Northgate stabbings to ban a restaurant that serves two kinds of buns.
It's time to gather the torch-bearing mob."
...didn't tip you off this was satire.
I agree with the other commenter, The Batt ought to put a big "j/K" after all of it's sarcastic articles so people won't freak out. I really don't understand this. It was certainly obvious to me, and others, that this was satire.
So apparently paragraphs like...
"Is Hooters really the biggest problem the Bryan-College Station area has to worry about? Yes. We should ignore a drunk driving epidemic and two recent Northgate stabbings to ban a restaurant that serves two kinds of buns.
It's time to gather the torch-bearing mob."
...didn't tip you off this was satire.
I agree with the other commenter, The Batt ought to put a big "j/K" after all of it's sarcastic articles so people won't freak out. I really don't understand this. It was certainly obvious to me, and others, that this was satire.
Heatherlyn
posted 6/21/07 @ 1:19 PM CST
Originally posted byJoe
Hey Michael and Katherine, how about you read the article before you start attacking it!?
It's satire. It's making fun of all the people who protest Hooters. Good Lord, people. Can The Batt ever do a sarcastic article without someone freaking out, thinking the writer was serious?
I'm with you Joe. Maybe A&M needs to raise their admission standards? Apparently some brain deficient individuals have managed to make their way on campus.... [shh... maybe they won't realize I just called them stupid].
The only thing to worry about with Hooters coming to town should be the fact that the buildings are usually that ugly orange color. Come on people!
Steven
posted 6/13/07 @ 11:40 AM CST
The BCS community (I'm assuming the non student side) really needs to get their priorities in line. Last I checked, Hooters wasn't doing anything wrong. The women work there of their own free will, and the customers go of their own free will. There's no trickery or deception. What you see is what you get. If you don't want it, there's plenty of other options around the area. At least this keeps them occupied from other "devastating" issues, like unrelated students living together...
Reade Sitton
posted 6/13/07 @ 11:44 AM CST
Just another "white girl in trouble!" for the headlines, eh, Travis? Funny how a white girl can be DEFENDED for standing almost naked in a restaurant, but a black girl standing in waist deep, rancid water on Bourbon street in the wake of category 5 hurricane is STILL "black girl causing trouble!"
Karl
posted 6/13/07 @ 1:15 PM CST
No, they call her a LOOTER. A way to try and throw in the race card when it was never mentioned in the article *******. I've seen plenty of black waitresses at Hooters and they are treated the same as everyone else. But just in case, lets call in Jesse Jackson and the "Reverend" Al Sharpton to clear this up. D*****.
Lee
posted 6/16/07 @ 1:04 PM CST
Originally posted byReade Sitton
Just another "white girl in trouble!" for the headlines, eh, Travis? Funny how a white girl can be DEFENDED for standing almost naked in a restaurant, but a black girl standing in waist deep, rancid water on Bourbon street in the wake of category 5 hurricane is STILL "black girl causing trouble!"
I am from Louisiana.... stop making us look bad and stop with the race card. You still trying to get attention? Enough is enough.
Nicole2004
posted 12/05/08 @ 8:58 AM CST
Originally posted byReade Sitton
Just another "white girl in trouble!" for the headlines, eh, Travis? Funny how a white girl can be DEFENDED for standing almost naked in a restaurant, but a black girl standing in waist deep, rancid water on Bourbon street in the wake of category 5 hurricane is STILL "black girl causing trouble!"
Oh give me a freaking break!!!!
Eric 91
posted 12/08/08 @ 11:18 AM CST
Originally posted byReade Sitton
Just another "white girl in trouble!" for the headlines, eh, Travis? Funny how a white girl can be DEFENDED for standing almost naked in a restaurant, but a black girl standing in waist deep, rancid water on Bourbon street in the wake of category 5 hurricane is STILL "black girl causing trouble!"
Jeez, you have some issues. You might want to take off the racist glasses. The debacle in New Orleans was government incompetence. We experienced much of the same crap here after Ike but at least they learned a few things from Katrina. Although, the Houston Mayor had to take control of logistics since FEMA was still waiting for the Magic Conch to tell them where to go two days after the hurricane. Try looking beyond the color of a persons' skin when crappy things happen.
Lea
posted 6/13/07 @ 5:15 PM CST
Honestly, I don't know how some people got into Texas A&M with such poor critical reading skills... it's called satire. Do y'all really think a male college student would honestly believe that a Hooters is a bigger problem than stabbings on Northgate?
Reade Sitton
posted 7/10/07 @ 4:16 PM CST
Originally posted byLea
Honestly, I don't know how some people got into Texas A&M with such poor critical reading skills... it's called satire. Do y'all really think a male college student would honestly believe that a Hooters is a bigger problem than stabbings on Northgate?
Nope. What else you can see with not much more critical reading (the point I'm TRYING to get across) is what's called irony, Lee and Karl. It's IRONIC how:
- INNOCENT a caricature of a thinly clad, well endowed, white, sweet, young thing can be on the front page of the Battalion
while, juxtaposed starkly
- a CRIMINAL black woman, wearing what she probably ONLY has left to her name (AMAZING the no doubt ebbing flood didn't tear THAT off of her!), probably starving, probably thirsty, probably near asphyxiation, and probably salvaging all she can in a devastated New Orleans just like everyone else is pictured FOR REAL in Associated Press, Tuesday, August 30, 11:31 AM ET.
Had you not bitten, Karl ("LOOTER"), Lee's argument ("pull the race card") would have been legit. Well, seems YOU got us off topic, eh Karl?
So let's talk about the source of your apparent racism then.
Not here, of course. It's off topic here. :)
Dustin
posted 6/13/07 @ 5:47 PM CST
If you would look at the quality of the students that they let in now, then yes. Ditto Karl.
Richard Krebes
posted 6/14/07 @ 11:16 PM CST
Now just hold one for one minute there, friend.
I am a 27 year-old bachelor whos is also a freelance writer.
This writer hangs out at Hooters not because he is a lecherous, beer-swilling slob, but a single guy who likes it for the social benefits.
In his view, it is a hipper way to meet women than a singles club or a speed dating event.
You argue in your editorial that:
"Short shorts are nothing new, and tight shirts are everywhere, but Hooters is a breeding ground for perverts, drunks and habitual hot wing eaters. After all, what other kind of person would want to watch sports and drink a beer at a restaurant with well-endowed waitresses?"
I have rarely, if ever, seen any such low-lifes down at the Hooters I regularly go to at Block E in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
True, I did hear some boozy frat boys say some stupid things to one Hooters Girl once, for which they deserved their drinks thrown in their face, but on the whole, every man I have seen there has been well-behaved.
"One reason for a Hooters ban is the way the restaurant dehumanizes women."
One girl I know from Block E says Hooters actually empowers women. Rather than the other way around. Because of the great career opportunites and benefits the company gives out to them.
A woman can support herself on her own at Hooters, she argues, without needing, say, a partner like a boyfriend to make monetary ends meet.
A logical argument. Very much so.
"It's time to gather the torch-bearing mob.
Watch your shapely butt, Hooters. We're coming for you and your delicious hot wings."
Friend, if your town really tried that, I would be out there on the side of the Hooter's Girls. Making all and sundry who met my fists think they were the battleship Bismarck getting pummeled into the deep by the Royal Navy.
And grabbing those torches and frying your uptight posterior's with them too...
In other words:
Talk a couple valium and chill...out.
-Richard Krebes
Long Lake, Minnesota, USA
I am a 27 year-old bachelor whos is also a freelance writer.
This writer hangs out at Hooters not because he is a lecherous, beer-swilling slob, but a single guy who likes it for the social benefits.
In his view, it is a hipper way to meet women than a singles club or a speed dating event.
You argue in your editorial that:
"Short shorts are nothing new, and tight shirts are everywhere, but Hooters is a breeding ground for perverts, drunks and habitual hot wing eaters. After all, what other kind of person would want to watch sports and drink a beer at a restaurant with well-endowed waitresses?"
I have rarely, if ever, seen any such low-lifes down at the Hooters I regularly go to at Block E in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
True, I did hear some boozy frat boys say some stupid things to one Hooters Girl once, for which they deserved their drinks thrown in their face, but on the whole, every man I have seen there has been well-behaved.
"One reason for a Hooters ban is the way the restaurant dehumanizes women."
One girl I know from Block E says Hooters actually empowers women. Rather than the other way around. Because of the great career opportunites and benefits the company gives out to them.
A woman can support herself on her own at Hooters, she argues, without needing, say, a partner like a boyfriend to make monetary ends meet.
A logical argument. Very much so.
"It's time to gather the torch-bearing mob.
Watch your shapely butt, Hooters. We're coming for you and your delicious hot wings."
Friend, if your town really tried that, I would be out there on the side of the Hooter's Girls. Making all and sundry who met my fists think they were the battleship Bismarck getting pummeled into the deep by the Royal Navy.
And grabbing those torches and frying your uptight posterior's with them too...
In other words:
Talk a couple valium and chill...out.
-Richard Krebes
Long Lake, Minnesota, USA
Chris Barnes
posted 6/15/07 @ 6:57 AM CST
One word, two syllables: SA-TIRE. You as a writer should know that...
Originally posted byRichard Krebes
Now just hold one for one minute there, friend.
I am a 27 year-old bachelor whos is also a freelance writer.
This writer hangs out at Hooters not because he is a lecherous, beer-swilling slob, but a single guy who likes it for the social benefits.
In his view, it is a hipper way to meet women than a singles club or a speed dating event.
You argue in your editorial that:
"Short shorts are nothing new, and tight shirts are everywhere, but Hooters is a breeding ground for perverts, drunks and habitual hot wing eaters. After all, what other kind of person would want to watch sports and drink a beer at a restaurant with well-endowed waitresses?"
I have rarely, if ever, seen any such low-lifes down at the Hooters I regularly go to at Block E in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
True, I did hear some boozy frat boys say some stupid things to one Hooters Girl once, for which they deserved their drinks thrown in their face, but on the whole, every man I have seen there has been well-behaved.
"One reason for a Hooters ban is the way the restaurant dehumanizes women."
One girl I know from Block E says Hooters actually empowers women. Rather than the other way around. Because of the great career opportunites and benefits the company gives out to them.
A woman can support herself on her own at Hooters, she argues, without needing, say, a partner like a boyfriend to make monetary ends meet.
A logical argument. Very much so.
"It's time to gather the torch-bearing mob.
Watch your shapely butt, Hooters. We're coming for you and your delicious hot wings."
Friend, if your town really tried that, I would be out there on the side of the Hooter's Girls. Making all and sundry who met my fists think they were the battleship Bismarck getting pummeled into the deep by the Royal Navy.
And grabbing those torches and frying your uptight posterior's with them too...
In other words:
Talk a couple valium and chill...out.
-Richard Krebes
Long Lake, Minnesota, USA
Macus Murguia
posted 6/15/07 @ 12:46 PM CST
Hooters, in no way, should be an issue of concern to husbands, feminists or children. If a simple restaurant like Hooters effects decisions by these people and some how reflects on their responsibility, then it seems there are personal family issues. If you think Hooters affects husbands then I think you should start at the Dirty Sock if you can't find them at home. As for feminists, the girls that work there know exactly what they're getting into and what the attire may be. They aren't forced to work there or even go inside. As for traffic issues, lets think about all the college students driving while on the phone. Lets try to open up our conservative minds before we draw conclusions. Or just try the place, you might like it.
Rachel Zamora
posted 6/15/07 @ 4:40 PM CST
As a Hooters girl back home, I was bummed to learn that one of the biggest universities in Texas didn't have a Hooters. I guess I just assumed that there would already be one here, what with the sports and all.
So, to hear of one being built in the area really made me happy. It'll give us Hooters girls in college a chance to work at a restaurant in one of the cities I love. I mean, besides, I do go to school here at A&M.
Which is another thing. Hooters girls are not all about long legs, short shorts, and tight shirts. I was in the top percentile in my high school. Right after graduation, I applied at the local Hooters. I've been a Hooters girl for 2 years now, and I love everything about it.
I came to A&M, maintained a 3.0 GPR, and was still a Hooters girl.
We are not trashy women. We are not "dumb blondes". More the half the girls back at the local Hooters are all studying to be lawyers, doctors, . I even have a co-worker who is training to be a Border Patrol agent. We are strong, empowered women. We are not just women publicly commercialized for sex appeal. We are intelligent, dedicated, and wonderful.
For any one person to sit there and say that Hooters is demeaning to women, I'd like to challenge them to ENTER a Hooters. I bet more than half of those complaining have never even set foot in a Hooters. It's not bad.
And before people rag on me about this being a satirical editorial, I know that. I may be a Hooters girl, but there's more to me than, well, my Hooters.
So, to hear of one being built in the area really made me happy. It'll give us Hooters girls in college a chance to work at a restaurant in one of the cities I love. I mean, besides, I do go to school here at A&M.
Which is another thing. Hooters girls are not all about long legs, short shorts, and tight shirts. I was in the top percentile in my high school. Right after graduation, I applied at the local Hooters. I've been a Hooters girl for 2 years now, and I love everything about it.
I came to A&M, maintained a 3.0 GPR, and was still a Hooters girl.
We are not trashy women. We are not "dumb blondes". More the half the girls back at the local Hooters are all studying to be lawyers, doctors, . I even have a co-worker who is training to be a Border Patrol agent. We are strong, empowered women. We are not just women publicly commercialized for sex appeal. We are intelligent, dedicated, and wonderful.
For any one person to sit there and say that Hooters is demeaning to women, I'd like to challenge them to ENTER a Hooters. I bet more than half of those complaining have never even set foot in a Hooters. It's not bad.
And before people rag on me about this being a satirical editorial, I know that. I may be a Hooters girl, but there's more to me than, well, my Hooters.
aggiegal
posted 6/16/07 @ 10:12 PM CST
But what is it about the restaurant that you love so much? Is the money that much better than you can make in another restaurant, or are there other reasons? Just curious.
Originally posted byRachel Zamora
As a Hooters girl back home, I was bummed to learn that one of the biggest universities in Texas didn't have a Hooters. I guess I just assumed that there would already be one here, what with the sports and all.
So, to hear of one being built in the area really made me happy. It'll give us Hooters girls in college a chance to work at a restaurant in one of the cities I love. I mean, besides, I do go to school here at A&M.
Which is another thing. Hooters girls are not all about long legs, short shorts, and tight shirts. I was in the top percentile in my high school. Right after graduation, I applied at the local Hooters. I've been a Hooters girl for 2 years now, and I love everything about it.
I came to A&M, maintained a 3.0 GPR, and was still a Hooters girl.
We are not trashy women. We are not "dumb blondes". More the half the girls back at the local Hooters are all studying to be lawyers, doctors, . I even have a co-worker who is training to be a Border Patrol agent. We are strong, empowered women. We are not just women publicly commercialized for sex appeal. We are intelligent, dedicated, and wonderful.
For any one person to sit there and say that Hooters is demeaning to women, I'd like to challenge them to ENTER a Hooters. I bet more than half of those complaining have never even set foot in a Hooters. It's not bad.
And before people rag on me about this being a satirical editorial, I know that. I may be a Hooters girl, but there's more to me than, well, my Hooters.
Adrian
posted 6/15/07 @ 7:43 PM CST
Travis, what do you think: is it your fault that they didn't understand or is it theirs? Personally, I think your style of writing is completely inappropriate for the audience... to avoid mishaps like this in the future, I recommend that you introduce a standardized rating system for articles at The Batt, based on reader intelligence level required...
Sylvia
posted 6/19/07 @ 9:08 AM CST
Maybe these hooter babies will not sit at the customers tables like they do in my hometown.
anonymous
posted 6/19/07 @ 12:25 PM CST
Perhaps for those whose critical reading skills didn't get them into college you should just label the page Satire instead of Opinion. Or, in todays world of intellectual college students maybe just a giant "JK" at the end will suffice.
slr
posted 6/20/07 @ 10:13 AM CST
To Adrian and that last anonymous post:
Amen.
Number 1: this article was in the OPINION SECTION! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, however wrong you think that opinion might be. Number 2: Claiming you are a writer and yet you STILL get on the bandwagon and attack this article, without regard to its obvious satyrical nature, is foolish (words of wisdom: it is better to appear a fool than to open your mouth, or in your case, pull out the pen, and remove all doubt).
Amen.
Number 1: this article was in the OPINION SECTION! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, however wrong you think that opinion might be. Number 2: Claiming you are a writer and yet you STILL get on the bandwagon and attack this article, without regard to its obvious satyrical nature, is foolish (words of wisdom: it is better to appear a fool than to open your mouth, or in your case, pull out the pen, and remove all doubt).
christina
posted 6/20/07 @ 12:21 PM CST
I as a woman, see nothing wrong with opening up a hooter's here. I am actually glad! I have friends that work at hooter's in Houston, and not only is it a great way to make good money, you make a lot of friends in the process too. I also have had several fun times eating out there with guy and girl friends, and I have never felt uncomfortable. Not only that, no one I know has ever voiced a concern about feeling objectified while working/eating there. Any woman who think against this should keep their feelings to their self, or just not eat there.
puck
posted 6/25/07 @ 7:17 AM CST
Why do people have to push "there" ideas of proper morals down everyone elses throats. Boys will be boys, and girls will be will girls. And lets keep it that way.
TReese
posted 8/31/07 @ 10:51 PM CST
Originally posted bypuck
Why do people have to push "there" ideas of proper morals down everyone elses throats. Boys will be boys, and girls will be will girls. And lets keep it that way.
Yes. Agreed. But LITTLE boys and LITTLE girls should not be subjected to misguided parents who lead them to believe that Hooters is a "Family atmosphere". They have plenty of time to make the decisions regarding their own morals. As adults, most have already made the decision to have caviar or wings. A bottle of DP and a large order of wings may as well be caviar and a PBR. The restaurant is fine for those who have already had the chance to choose their path, but I think we need to leave the children to make their decisions without influence of their parents generation, many of whom cannot get beyond high school or college lifestyles. There is a big beautiful world out there with fine food and conversation that is far from boring. I hope that is where my children spend their time and the "hooters" they may see will be attached to someone with a taste for the finer things. Believe me...I do know fun!!!
woody
posted 7/09/07 @ 10:12 PM CST
ALL THE PROTESTS ARE ANGRY WOMEN WHO CANT PLEASE OR TRUST THERE MEN. END OF STORY! GOOD LUCK LOSERS
Robyn Haak
posted 8/25/07 @ 5:34 PM CST
ha-ha he said "cause more traffic accidents" I say "instant idiots just add water"
T Reese
posted 8/31/07 @ 8:32 PM CST
As I have spent most of my life in the fashion, beauty, and media industries,
I have a problem with Hooters only because it is being portrayed as a "family" environment. What kind of family are they trying to produce? I for one of many think that if one chooses to be an exibitionist, it is their choice. However, the "Hooters" establishment seems to be preying on the uneducated and those "short of the social graces" and knowledge of good food.
Take heed. t
I have a problem with Hooters only because it is being portrayed as a "family" environment. What kind of family are they trying to produce? I for one of many think that if one chooses to be an exibitionist, it is their choice. However, the "Hooters" establishment seems to be preying on the uneducated and those "short of the social graces" and knowledge of good food.
Take heed. t
International Aggie
posted 1/05/08 @ 8:17 AM CST
Originally posted byT Reese
As I have spent most of my life in the fashion, beauty, and media industries,
I have a problem with Hooters only because it is being portrayed as a "family" environment. What kind of family are they trying to produce? I for one of many think that if one chooses to be an exibitionist, it is their choice. However, the "Hooters" establishment seems to be preying on the uneducated and those "short of the social graces" and knowledge of good food.
Take heed. t
I as a foreign student was astonished to see families with little boys and girls sitting down for a 'family meal' at Hooters in Houston. Family Values? more like producing skanks and lolitas like Britney for the future. Those parents need to have their heads examined.
Vince Schielack '05
posted 9/02/07 @ 2:53 AM CST
A Modest Proposal, Mr. Holland.
Laughing
posted 12/31/07 @ 2:02 AM CST
This town is so conservative. Who cares what my beliefs are or yours? If you don't like Hooter's, then don't go. It is really that simple. If you feel like it takes advantage of women, then don't apply for the job. If you feel that it is teaching younger kids the "wrong" things, keep your younger kids at Chuck E Cheese's. Keep your beliefs, YOURS! Hooter's got their liquor license and is supposed to be open Spring 2008. HA! Just so you know..I do not like wings or girls. I have no "mission" to write these statements but at the same time, I do not want people thinking I am some horny guy wanting to get a quick thrill. Hooter's offers nothing to me but I am glad that they are coming to Bryan.
James Speaker
posted 1/02/08 @ 12:59 PM CST
Brilliant Holland, just brilliant. Two gig 'ems for you.
Steven Boyd '01
posted 1/04/08 @ 10:29 AM CST
Mr. Holland: "Is Hooters really the biggest problem the Bryan-College Station area has to worry about? Yes. We should ignore a drunk driving epidemic and two recent Northgate stabbings to ban a restaurant that serves two kinds of buns."
Mr. Boyd: I'm picking up your sarcasm.
Mr. Holland: Well, good, because I'm laying it on pretty thick.
Mr. Boyd: I'm picking up your sarcasm.
Mr. Holland: Well, good, because I'm laying it on pretty thick.
Stefanie
posted 1/07/08 @ 5:46 PM CST
I had to laugh when I read this article. Then I believed I laughed even harder when I read some of these ridiculous replies.
First, Hooters is just another food place out there. I have ate at Hooters plenty of times. As a female, it doesn't bother me that there are ladies there serving me and my friends wearing short shorts and tight shirts. Why? Go anywhere today and you're going to see girls wearing that.
To me, I believe feminists are taking this issue a little bit far. Hooters doesn't hire girls to work there because of their "breast-size" so what's the problem???
To the parents and other concerned citizens who are complaining and worried about young children eating there, you should leave your kids locked indoors. Don't be taking them to the beach, or the swimming pools, and make sure you put something over their faces when you let them outside, because trust me, you're going to see a lot less clothing or a lot worse.
Hooters doesn't base their gils that work there on how pretty they are or how big their breasts are. So what if they wear short shorts and tight shirts.
If you don't like it, don't eat there.
Most that do work at Hooters is working there to help pay for their education.
And to Katherine: If they opened "Pecks" here, I would be one happy customer...even though I'm sure they would never come up with such a thing.
To Travis: Great article, I loved the sarcasm. There just needs to be less complainers out there. If they want to complain about something, let them complain about those stabbings at Northgate, or all of this ridiculous traffic, but over Hooters...? How stupid!
P.S. I am pretty sure I used small enough words so everyone would understand.
First, Hooters is just another food place out there. I have ate at Hooters plenty of times. As a female, it doesn't bother me that there are ladies there serving me and my friends wearing short shorts and tight shirts. Why? Go anywhere today and you're going to see girls wearing that.
To me, I believe feminists are taking this issue a little bit far. Hooters doesn't hire girls to work there because of their "breast-size" so what's the problem???
To the parents and other concerned citizens who are complaining and worried about young children eating there, you should leave your kids locked indoors. Don't be taking them to the beach, or the swimming pools, and make sure you put something over their faces when you let them outside, because trust me, you're going to see a lot less clothing or a lot worse.
Hooters doesn't base their gils that work there on how pretty they are or how big their breasts are. So what if they wear short shorts and tight shirts.
If you don't like it, don't eat there.
Most that do work at Hooters is working there to help pay for their education.
And to Katherine: If they opened "Pecks" here, I would be one happy customer...even though I'm sure they would never come up with such a thing.
To Travis: Great article, I loved the sarcasm. There just needs to be less complainers out there. If they want to complain about something, let them complain about those stabbings at Northgate, or all of this ridiculous traffic, but over Hooters...? How stupid!
P.S. I am pretty sure I used small enough words so everyone would understand.
Grammar Police
posted 1/21/08 @ 2:13 PM CST
Originally posted byStefanie
I have ate at Hooters plenty of times.
Don't be taking them to the beach, or the swimming pools, and make sure you put something over their faces when you let them outside, because trust me, you're going to see a lot less clothing or a lot worse.
P.S. I am pretty sure I used small enough words so everyone would understand.
The words were small enough, but next time try using English.
Krystal
posted 1/11/08 @ 6:50 PM CST
This article is CRAZY. You have no idea what you are talking about!!!! I worked at Hooters in Galveston, I helped open it. I made more money there than at any job I have ever had. It helped me pay for school ! I never felt uncomfortable working there, no "pervert" ever did anything to make me feel that way. As for the clothes issue....I wore more articles of clothing at that job than half of the girls and guys who walked through the door. I meet some wonderful people who came into Hooters ...familys included, infact I think we had more familys come in than just single or groups of men, yes I even took pictures holding baby's !!!And I LOVED singing songs and embarrasing customer on their birthdays its what mad my job FUN !!! I worked at Hooters for 4 months and not once did and accident EVER occur outside the building. As for the drunk driving ....please Hooters would prolly be a more safe place to drink at. Unlike the bars on Northgate we make sure anyone who is even slightly intoxicated gets a ride home. Also we are told by managers that we are not to serve anyone who appears to have had something to drink. AND just like all other reastraunts we have to follow TABC regulations on alcohol and how much we serve. So you are basically saying that ALL restruats that serve alcohol should not exist ? Hmm seems like you need a reality check to me, you are so ignorant its unbelivable that you were accepted to Texas A&M.
Get a life,Hooters is coming, Ill be working there, and will be shaking my shaply butt all the way to the front door right past your idiotic mob. Ill even toss out some wings and fried pickels so you can taste what your missing.
Get a life,Hooters is coming, Ill be working there, and will be shaking my shaply butt all the way to the front door right past your idiotic mob. Ill even toss out some wings and fried pickels so you can taste what your missing.
Elizabeth
posted 1/20/08 @ 2:15 AM CST
I am currently a Hooters Girl in Alabama. This arguement against hooter girls is completly ridculous to say the least. Hooter girls yes are beautiful but is the need to for wives to watch their husbands right? If a married man is going to go to Hooters and hit on the waitress who is about twenty then news flash he has already cheated on her or wants to. I have never know a Hooters girl to go home with or allow ANY man to touch them inappropriaty. Hooters allows young women to have the chance to make the money needed to support their education or children. There is no other restaurant that allows women to make enough money to support themselves. Would you like to pay more in taxes to pay the bills for a young woman not old enough to have graduated from college. I myself am able to pay my tuiton and all my bills while still giving me enough time to study due to my work sceudule and the generous tips I receive. I am a history major and political science minor with a 3.78 gpa. Hooters is not my career and once I graduate I will quit there. Before you fight to ban hooters try stepping into one. The uniforms cover more than a lot of 14 years olds wear to the mall. You may be pleasanly suprised and discover a lot of young smart nice women. You may even enjoy your visit.
Brummy
posted 1/20/08 @ 12:16 PM CST
Travis makes a good point in that "perverts, drunks and habitual hot wing eaters" will flock to the place. I question why Hooters would want to come to the B/CS area.... everyone knows there aren't enough of those kind of people in B/CS to keep a Hooters in business.
Maybe the fact that undesirables have a place to go now should be welcomed by Hooters opponents. Opponents now know where "they" will be and can keep an eye on "them". "They" won't be adversely influencing our community if "their" whereabouts are known.
In reality, Hooters wings are pretty good (not the best in my opinion, but ok), and the choice to work there is an individual one. Since when do I, or any other individual, have the right to tell anyone where to open a restaurant, work or eat?
Maybe the fact that undesirables have a place to go now should be welcomed by Hooters opponents. Opponents now know where "they" will be and can keep an eye on "them". "They" won't be adversely influencing our community if "their" whereabouts are known.
In reality, Hooters wings are pretty good (not the best in my opinion, but ok), and the choice to work there is an individual one. Since when do I, or any other individual, have the right to tell anyone where to open a restaurant, work or eat?
D.T. Shannon
posted 5/15/08 @ 12:51 PM CST
Well, yesterday for the first time ever I had lunch at Hooters with a couple of colleagues of mine. Interesting, I saw nobody that would fit the description of pervert, drunk or even habitual hot wing eater. Also interesting is that I thought I had more than half a brain but yet I cannot figure out "what is wrong with hooters". Well, as it turn out, I have a full brain. Perhaps it is the penman of the article above who lacks the grey matter. Perhaps he/she is unaware that men have maintain the attributes, weather they want to or not, that have allowed the procreation of our species. That is, they love the human female body, they need food, they like beer. I had a long conversation with one of the hooters waitresses yesterday. She didn't speak or act like someone who was forced to work there against her will. She had a job where she didn't dress skimpy. She left that job to work at Hooters. I'm at a loss as to how the establishment "dehumanizes women". Clearly WOMEN choose to work there. Are they to be held hostage to the notion that thier choices, as women, will dehumanize women as a whole? Why then do they choose to work there? In my opinion, what is dehumanizing to women is telling them what they should think or guilt them into making choices they would otherwise not make. And the MOST dehumanizing thing about this all is ingoring the sexuality of both women AND men just to appease the dillusioned few who have completely fallen out of touch with reality. The self rightousness of the article is nauseating.
Lucile
posted 5/16/08 @ 1:10 AM CST
This was piece was satire- though it was hard to see it as such until about halfway through.
But I have a few thoughts on some of the comments made in reply to this...
1) To those people who think feminists are against Hooters and are the only people protesting: Eh, not so much. Only time official feminist organizations get upset with ANY restaurant is when they are discriminatory against women versus men in pay (which is pretty damn hard to do when the majority of your workers are women in Hooters lol), or are providing an unsafe environment for women to work at. As for the latter issue, I think it is completely against Hooters' best interest to put their ladies in harms way and I've seen a few restaurants with bouncers(i'm not sure what they are exactly called? haha) standing by in the late evenings incase something does happen. Outside of the uniform, the restaurant is just like a chilis or fridays. nbd.
2) To those who think that it is just wrong to bring children into the "den of sin" that is Hooters: oh please... You see more now on Victoria's Secret commercials. Grow up. It's food being served to you by typically very pretty smily girls. what's the big deal?? haha They aren't running around giving lap dances or doing anything sexual at all- you making a big deal over their bodies just increases the chances of children acting immature towards girls who don't wear your Amish-wear and fuels the stereotype that women with bigger breasts and or are scantly clad, are immoral. I'm sorry, but your association is very similar to men and women who claim that ladies that are raped may have "asked" for it because of what they were wearing. Here's a great lesson for the kiddos- don't judge a book by its cover.
But I have a few thoughts on some of the comments made in reply to this...
1) To those people who think feminists are against Hooters and are the only people protesting: Eh, not so much. Only time official feminist organizations get upset with ANY restaurant is when they are discriminatory against women versus men in pay (which is pretty damn hard to do when the majority of your workers are women in Hooters lol), or are providing an unsafe environment for women to work at. As for the latter issue, I think it is completely against Hooters' best interest to put their ladies in harms way and I've seen a few restaurants with bouncers(i'm not sure what they are exactly called? haha) standing by in the late evenings incase something does happen. Outside of the uniform, the restaurant is just like a chilis or fridays. nbd.
2) To those who think that it is just wrong to bring children into the "den of sin" that is Hooters: oh please... You see more now on Victoria's Secret commercials. Grow up. It's food being served to you by typically very pretty smily girls. what's the big deal?? haha They aren't running around giving lap dances or doing anything sexual at all- you making a big deal over their bodies just increases the chances of children acting immature towards girls who don't wear your Amish-wear and fuels the stereotype that women with bigger breasts and or are scantly clad, are immoral. I'm sorry, but your association is very similar to men and women who claim that ladies that are raped may have "asked" for it because of what they were wearing. Here's a great lesson for the kiddos- don't judge a book by its cover.
jess
posted 5/22/08 @ 3:09 PM CST
I personally don't eat at Hooters because I found that there are establishments in our town with better food and better service - and aren't those the top 2 reasons you return to a restaurant?
The only concern of mine would be for the safety and rights of the girls. A really close friend of mine worked at a Hooters for a short while but recently quit when management refused to do anything about men constantly grabbing her. As long as there will be a responsible managerial staff that cares about their employees more than the few a-holes that insist on being disrespectful (note I said "few"), hopefully the staff and customers can all be happy. And the few that have mentioned it before are totally right - if you don't like it, don't eat there. Besides, who has the right to judge someone based on the restaurant they choose to work for or patronize?
The only concern of mine would be for the safety and rights of the girls. A really close friend of mine worked at a Hooters for a short while but recently quit when management refused to do anything about men constantly grabbing her. As long as there will be a responsible managerial staff that cares about their employees more than the few a-holes that insist on being disrespectful (note I said "few"), hopefully the staff and customers can all be happy. And the few that have mentioned it before are totally right - if you don't like it, don't eat there. Besides, who has the right to judge someone based on the restaurant they choose to work for or patronize?
Marc
posted 5/27/08 @ 9:45 AM CST
Just one comment
If Hooters is allowed to open (and I hope it does), it would be extreamley cool if it would replace the ugly orange with Maroon. It could be the only Hooters around to have that oh so fashionable color scheme.
If Hooters is allowed to open (and I hope it does), it would be extreamley cool if it would replace the ugly orange with Maroon. It could be the only Hooters around to have that oh so fashionable color scheme.
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