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I have been to a Hooters restaurant and was close to astounded to see so many youngsters there. Surprisingly (or not) more fuddy-duddyish in my older age, it seemed to me to be inappropriate.

Not only were there families with children of both sexes, there were a couple of tables of young teen boys simply there for ogling.

What to do – keep the post-pubescent crowd away from the beach too?

I did not know about their description of their business. I did know that they held themselves out as a family or family friendly restaurant.

It does seem that one business should not be both adult entertainment and family friendly, but as noted above, it does not seem to affect their custom.

Let’s see… That would be NOW (Nagging Old Women) that is making the complaint?

Babies especially should never be exposed to human female breasts.

Maybe society is going to hell in a handbasket as Frank seems to worry. But is there an adult left in the world? Do we really need thought police to police the restaurant choices of parents yet more (happy meals gone in california by the fat police).
Yes, Hooters is a tacky place to take your kids, or a date. But most of society is tacky, crass and tasteless. And there is not a damn thing we can or should (from a legislative perspective anyway) attempt to do about it.

It does seem that one business should not be both adult entertainment and family friendly, but as noted above, it does not seem to affect their custom.

That is the description of Hooters by NOW, not the chain itself.

Hooters says it is a a family place that uses the sex appeal of its female employees as part of its business strategy.

That is not “adult entertainment.”

Ten years ago my family was at Mall of America and we were looking for a restaurant to eat at on the fourth floor. My then six-year-old son was saying that’s a bar or that’s a restaurant as we passed each type of establishment. We occasionally corrected him.

When we got to Hooter’s he said, “Now that’s a bar!”

He was emphasizing “that’s” because he thought he was right. But it was so funny because of how it sounded.

Ah, but just wait until the Health department finds out about the lack of a “lactation room”, where the poor, oppressed Hooters girls can go to feed their infants!

Oh, the HUMANITY!

My daughter (then about two) loved her “Hooters in Training” t-shirt. She seems to have overcome the emotional scars that the chain inflicted upon her.

These NOW people are such awful scolds.

Or maybe the bunch of dried-up old harpies that comprise NOW have once again discovered that they have fallen out of the MSM’s attention and are striving to regain their previous position of ridicule and indifference with just one more “act of desperation” and the are the gals to do it.

That said a meal at Hooter’s is hardly fine dining and the sights are little more than titillating, but at least they don’t give out toys with the kid’s meal.

Maybe NOW should be satisfied that the Hooters servers make much more than their similarly situated male counterparts.

I honestly don’t understand families like that.

It’s not a feminist gripe, though. I swear so many people love to make fun of feminism or label something as “feminist” when they clearly have very little or no familiarity with feminist views.
Also? The National Organization for Women is an organization that is trying to make itself relevant again. It’s dying out and is so far removed from the feminist nonprofit/activism sphere.

Nora, it is precisely the stands that NOW is and have been taking–similar to PETA’s stand on, for example, drinking beer instead of milk (to underage USAFA cadets)–that makes it easy to make fun, not only of NOW but feminism in general. Once, and only when, NOW takes on more serious issues–i.e. protesting about, say, the treatment of women in parts of the Islamic world–will they be taken again seriously.

“That is the description of Hooters by NOW, not the chain itself.
Hooters says it is a a family place that uses the sex appeal of its female employees as part of its business strategy.
That is not “adult entertainment”

Per the article: “Hooters is described in official business filings as a provider of “vicarious sexual entertainment.”

So, sexual entertainment is not adult entertainment. Sexual entertainment is something for kids?

Someone hasn’t watched much TV lately.

NOW: ensuring Jerry Seinfeld was right when he said, ” there is really no such thing as fun for the whole family.” Next up, no brew pubs in malls. You’re supposed to sit in the massage chair and watch the kiddies while we shop for makeup mom jeans