Gosh, I agree with Liz Jones

[MmeLindt]

There is something that I don't think very often.

Sorry, I found this burger bar more offensive than a lapdancing club

I do notice that she mentions M&S and the LetGirlsBeGirls campaign but refrains from mentioning who brought the campaign to M&S.

I read that and agreed too. Particularly interested in her interview in the 70's with the last Playboy bunny.

Disgraceful that 30 years later this is still acceptable.

I'm disgusted by the comments by readers and customers that the girls aren't pretty enough and bemoaning the fact that they don't have boob jobs like in America

Waaaaaay too much porn influence there.

She's careful not to mention MN isn't she? Wonder why .A bit odd to go on about the uniform being orange hotpants when none of the photos show them being orange.

It's good that it's making mainstream news though. Just don't read the comments....

I hate Hooters - it's so very offensive on so many levels, and I include the 'American tan tights with white popsocks' in that - but this article is in the Daily Mail, who'll churn out dull, thinly-veiled advertising copy about plastic surgery and how X celeb is looking thin/fat/pregnant or has let herself go.

In terms of anti-woman, pro-idealised-appearance influence, which has more: Hooters or the DM??

Lawd the comments are vile. Going on about how she has no boyfriend because she has small breasts....I mean - I have no journalistic respect for Liz Jones but honestly.

WHY is it that all responses to these sort of feminist issue revolve around ugly hairy breastless women? What is it that makes people say that? Is it because they don't have any realy comments? That there is no good argument for something like Hooters?

(Liz Jones had a breast reduction I think in her 20s - article in Guardian supplement about it, not pleasant reading as she clearly has massive psychological issues about her body - it was not her usual inflammatory stuff, it was very sad to read.)

The thing about Hooters is that it just about works in a teeth-flashing, cheeseball-as-standard, sex-by-Disney-Pixar place like Vegas or Miami. Transfer it to Bristol and "Will ye be wantin' a gurt big hamburger, sorr?" delivered by a bored looking girl on minimum wage and rollerskates isn't going to have anything like the same cachet.

I hate burgers AND Hooters and I have the norks of a goddess . And no 'tache.

The comments from the women saying what a fun place it is or from the father whose daughters both wanted t-shirts

fair point about DM, I'm just glad they're on this side in this case.

when is someone going to change 'Hooters' to 'Wankers' on that billboard?

it is designed to allow inadequate men feel powerful and masculine

Chil....I wa going to disagree about the accent, but then I thought about the sort of loser that will work there and eat there...I have to say you're spot on!

What those comments are saying is that the place lacks glamour. And without genuine US-style glamour, Hooters is just another diner. If we all stopped getting all Mary Whitehouse about it, it would probably wither and die naturally for being poor value for money and not delivering on its USP. But now that everyone's paying special visits so that they can say 'I'm appalled' in national newspapers, it will succeed! Oh the irony

Oh dear, I looked at the comments

Hmm....born and bred in Bristol, I'm guessing you all have broad accents Riven....

Many of those girls don't have a choice? Jesus Christ, are you serious?

Oh god, the comments. Why do I always read the comments?

Completely at the Canadian woman who commented that Hooters is a family restaurant over there. I am Canadian and believe me, Hooters is NOT a family restaurant! I do not know a single self-respecting person who would be caught dead in that place, let alone take their children along for the 'entertainment'.

Well if we succeed in closing down Hooters we'd presumably feel vindicated that women were not being objectified but the women themselves might not thank us if they had fewer jobs to go at.

It's not difficult to make an employer decide not to employ you. If a woman doesn't want to work at Hooters but still get her JSA then it is perfectly possible. Obv you can't turn down every job going but you can turn down the Hooters of this world.

Young women working in Hooters do not have families to support... Hooters will not be one of the jobs included in the jobseekers scheme and you will not have benefits taken away.

How would you know they do not have families to support Posie?

Why would anyone think they would? Mostly young students in the Nottingham branch, where the local job centre has over 100 part time vacancies in the city centre. Besides what's the point of having a thread where people disagree with these shite places and then the same people coming on this thread and spouting nonsense about families to support? We either have a viewpoint that thinks these places are wrong or we bleat on about the economic need of the poor large breasted women.

If women didn't work there it wouldn't exist. Whilst I think the men in the business are arses the women have a responsibility to themselves and other women not to work there. These women aren't weak fuckwits forced into it, they want to work there which is a far bigger and destructive picture for women in the UK.

Posie if I had no other job available to me and Hooters was recruiting I would work there. As far as I am concerned my responsibility is to support myself and my son, in that situation I couldn't give a flying fiddle about my responsibility to other women.