Day 250: The Hooters Aren't Talking to You, but You'll Never Believe it

Women and men are different. Aside from the obvious, are the behavioral differences around the opposite sex. I’m talking about the attitudes and confidence levels men and women exhibit. I was turning this over in my head earlier this week, but it wasn’t until I saw the Hooters Superbowl Pool Party commercial on ESPN (it’s lost some of its luster, but I still love Sportscenter). The commercial featured four surgically enhanced women about 18 or 19 years of age. Their breasts were beckoning viewers to join the party and it made me think about the type of man that would actually see this commercial and perhaps go. Why do men who have no chance, men like my Dad and yours, who love to flirt with the server at their local Outback actually believe these overtly hot women want to be around them? More to the point, why don’t women react the same way to super hot guys?

Personally, I think it all comes down to self-esteem. It’s the same reason you more often see hot women with less hot men rather than the opposite. As women we don’t have the ta-tas to assume the scorching hot guy at the bar/party/whatever wants to talk to us. Unless he looks directly at us we’re holding off. Men, however, think nothing of crossing a room to hit on Gisele and they’ll do it at 20, 40 or 70 expecting the same results. The annoying thing is, very often they get the attention they’re looking for. Women humor men. We don’t want to be the bitch or the snob so we’ll talk to any man and try to excuse ourselves gracefully after a respectable amount of time has passed. We don’t want the guy to feel like we’re rejecting him even though we’re totally rejecting him!

Men aren’t like women. Men will simply ignore, insult or ask about our friend, all of which work quite nicely to convince us to beat a hasty retreat. Seeing a commercial filled with busty, barely out of high school, beautiful women I knew that somewhere a guy was watching and he believed she was talking to him. She wanted his full attention despite the fact that he is 50+, despite the fact that he’s watching in jockey shorts barely visible beneath his bulging belly, despite his affection for Budweiser and bowling. Yes, those women want him at their pool party and make no mistake if he weren’t already committed to bringing the brats to his buddy’s party on Sunday he’d be in Miami and make those busty girls’ dream come true.