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People really do go to Hooters for the wings. I'm now one of them.
- Hooters is both famous and infamous for its scantily clad waitresses.
- As a young woman and feminist, I've always thought Hooters had a pretty sexist concept, so I never stepped foot in one.
- I went to a location in New York to eat my first meal ever at a Hooters, and my experience was full of surprises.
- The biggest one? I'd go back.
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I'm a feminist.
I've gotten in a lot of arguments over it, mostly online, but also sometimes with my more conservative family members. I've also been called a "feminazi" by totally original and bravely anonymous men on Reddit, which I consider a badge of honor.
So it tracks that I'd never stepped foot into a Hooters until work called for it. Hooters is possibly the most notorious of the "breastaurants," the food establishments that draw in a mostly male crowd thanks to their scantily clad waitresses.
Sure, I'm attracted to women as well as men and people in between. But I like my women like I like my coffee: not from chain restaurants.
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Still, as Business Insider's in-house try-everything-person, it was my duty to journey into what I see as the land of commercialized misogyny.
However, my odyssey didn't quite go as expected. Read on to see why.