Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Hooters sponsoring U10s football

59 replies

AppropriateNot · 02/09/2022 14:52

Name changed for this as live in this village. Our village under 10’s boys football team has been sponsored by Hooters !!
www.gedlingeye.co.uk/latest/tv-debate-planned-as-hooters-is-revealed-as-new-sponsors-of-burton-joyce-under-10s-team/
AIBU to think it is completely inappropriate ? I just can’t understand which bright spark thought it was a good idea !!

OP posts:
Fancydancer1934 · 03/09/2022 15:05

Great result of the cancellation.

JustTheOneSwan · 03/09/2022 15:08

Good result. That it happened just shows how insidious this shit is, look at how many What's the problem posts and that's on mnet!

YouSetTheTone · 03/09/2022 15:57

What I don’t understand is if ‘Hooterrrz’ was the drag name of a man dressed in an exaggerated sexualised fashion (perhaps even in a waitress costume) this would be lauded as brave, inclusive, inspiring etc. The football team would be showered with rainbow lanyards and given about 5,000 Stonewall points. They’d probably feature on MOTD while Gary Lineker teared up at their amazing sponsor.

To be clear, I do not agree that a football team should be sponsored by a chain that glorifies women as attractive objects. But I don’t understand the double standards. Drag Queens can advertise whatever they want, but real semi sexualised women can’t.

MsTSwift · 03/09/2022 16:00

It’s so obviously wrong weird creepy and inappropriate can’t believe anyone ever thought it was a good idea in the first place.

Monkeybutt1 · 03/09/2022 16:15

It's not appropriate but as the wife of a U10's football manager I know how hard it is to get team sponsorship which they need for their kit etc.....maybe the manager felt he had no choice.
Not saying its right but there are two sides...

unbreakbroken · 03/09/2022 16:32

Maybe this was planned.

I think it's fairly obvious the FA would always have stepped in to say no, so this way Hooters get the publicity from wanting to do a nice thing and sponsor the local kids without actually having to pay for it (because they're not allowed).

Shiningstarr · 03/09/2022 16:53

It's completely inappropriate

sycamorescrumptious · 03/09/2022 17:58

Really pleased to see the FA have stepped in, but pretty shocked to see the overall feeling on the village fb page seems to be "what's the harm" - very disappointing that people really don't seem to see any issue with this!

AuntMasha · 03/09/2022 18:05

The fact that ‘Hooters’ exists in the first place is grim enough.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread