Regarding Hooters?

[LittleLisa78]

DP went out with his friends last week - they travelled 30 miles to a nearby city and spent the day in Hooters. AIBU to think DP is a hypocrite because he'd hate me to work somewhere like that and have men ogle me, yet it's ok for him to go there to ogle the women?

I think that your DH is a double hypocrite (if that's even possible!), as you say that he would frown on you having friends like that, while it is obviously perfectly okfor him to have friends with ddubious morals.

YANBU.

Christ, his mates sound grim.

But he is hardly going to be the sole gentleman surrounded by oiks is he. He must be as boorish as they are. LOVELY.

DH and I have a couple of colleagues who go to the one in Nottingham - huge cause of hilarity to be honest. Hooters? Are they fucking 12?

Full of saddos I?m afraid.

and the child menu is quite fitting really - if fully grown men are behaving like giggling year 8 boys!

Yanbu

Kids eat free on a Sunday

YANBU.

We have Hooters in the UK?!? I started reading this thinking it was from someone in the USA or Australia (maybe), but Nottingham, really?

I have been in Nottingham for 13 years and its been here all that time.

There were plans for one in Oxford iirc, but I dont know how far that got.

Out of interest I don't know if anyone saw this article when it first appeared in 2012. It's about the vitriol that poured out when the Bristol branch of Hooters shut down. The comments at the bottom in places continue this theme that it is a harmless restaurant rather than objectifying women.

Oh, and YANBU! The double standards about not wanting you to work there show that.

I wouldn't want any of our family income being spent at Hooters. Or any business that only employs "good looking" women. Disgusting.
I can't provide a link - maybe someone else can - but it is in the contract of employment there that girls must put up with harassment from male customers (or some flowery language that means that).

They also hold children's parties - complete with Hooters goodie bags and Hooters Boobie cakes. There are loads of pictures of these on the internet if you want to have a look.

This kind of low-level, seemingly benign misogyny is anything but.

Sadly, Hooters are just one of the hundreds of culprits when it comes to the normalisation of degrading women and monetising their bodies. The fact that they cater for children makes it even worse. At 6 years old, little David goes to Hooters with Daddy, at 9 he's looking at porn with his mates... at 16 his girlfriend is having to play it "cool" while he wanks on his own downstairs talking to sex workers online because hey - all men do it, right?

Yuk and Yuk.

I just read that link from the guardian and the comments. Where does one start when there are so many "so I suppose you object to David Beckham being topless on billboards too" comments ffs, really?!

who spends all day in a restaurant and who would travel 30 miles for food that is nothing special. Oh i know a couple of creeps who like being served by young women wearing little clothing

sorry op your dh is as bad as his friend and using him as an excuse

Does your DP have any redeeming qualities OP?