I’m a female who has eaten in a Hooters (I don’t call it a restaurant but a sports bar) a few times, mostly because my family and I wanted to watch a Braves game and it was open and convenient.

We drink little to none so the alcoholic beverages weren’t a major draw, nor is the food and menu all that great or varied. Mediocre is the word for the place.

The TV screens are large and plentiful and there is that sporty atmosphere that guys and some girls like — that laid-back ambiance of relaxation, beer, and cigarette smoke (oh, I forgot, cancel the cigarette smoke). I didn’t particularly enjoy the atmosphere or the seating arrangement of tall stools and chairs.

And then there are the girls-waitresses, who are all pretty and well-endowed and would look good in a long granny dress because they just don’t hire unattractive girls in those places. Would Hugh Hefner hang out with dogs? They do show a lot of cleavage and legs but you can see as much at the pool, beach and certainly the Renaissance Festival. But the point here is that waitresses aren’t going in swimming nor are they portraying medieval serving wenches.

The waitress who waited on us was pleasant, polite and very young and was oblivious to her state of partial undress. What did that indicate?

That semi-nudity no longer bothered girls of her generation. (Why should it, since they have all been reared on and fed an endless malnutritious diet of what society deems is cool since infancy?) Or was she just a good actress playing out the Playboy-style sexy actress role of waiting on and titillating men with beer and her appearance (Hooters)?

Let’s not be deceived by the motivations of places like Hooters (and what a degrading title for an eating establishment and certainly not very original), because we all know that the point of these places is to attract the male of the species into opening up his wallet to buy more beer, and to hang around longer spending money and staring at sexily dressed girls waiting on him. If he were a perfect customer, then the waitresses would be dressed in tasteful dresses with modest necklines.

The point of Hooters is just like so much else in a materialistic society — sex used to sell something. We’ve all been exposed to this ad nauseam and what I wonder is why we’ve waited so long to express our disgust with it.

Why don’t we refuse to purchase all these other things that sex is used to entice us to buy, buy, buy? That would produce a bigger impact where it might do some good — in the wallet. Of course, we’d probably have to move away out into the country and make do as our ancestors did. And that wouldn’t make this materialistic society who has produced confused and indulgent offspring very happy. So, maybe Hooters is just one of those heavy straws that is weighing down that poor camel.

No, I see no advantage in having a Hooters in Fayetteville. I’m no physicist but I understand that energy is always moving toward the negative or the positive, and energy now is definitely moving toward the negative. Hooters is just aggravation and irritation that we’ll have to deal with in the future.

I’m all for having some classy quality restaurants in Fayetteville. And serving wine or beer in a nice restaurant isn’t going to send us all to hell, for heavens’ sake!

P.J. Morris
Fayetteville

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