This is an actual paper, published in a peer reviewed journal. I wouldn’t call it science, when it’s actually some sort of strange rant like something from a SJW. And what the hell is a “breastaurant”? Hooters maybe? Yep, I had to look it up.
A breastaurant is a restaurant that has skimpily-dressed female waiting staff. The term “breastaurant” dates from the early 1990s, around the time that the restaurant chain Hooters became popular in the United States.
So now people are conducting “research” in Hooters.
h/t to Willie Soon.
An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant
The present study is based on a 2-year participant-observer ethnography of a group of men in a “breastaurant” to characterize the unique masculinity features that environment evokes. Currently, whereas some research examines sexually objectifying restaurant environments regarding their impacts upon women in those spaces, no known scholarly attention has been given to men and masculinities in these environments. Through thematic analysis of table dialogue supplemented by brief unstructured interviews, I identify four major and one minor theme of “breastaurant masculinity” as distinctive to that environment. These include sexual objectification, sexual conquest, male control of women, masculine toughness, and (as a minor theme) rationalizations for why men frequent breastaurants. Following recent trends in masculinities research, my study interprets the breastaurant as a type of male preserve that erects a local pastiche hegemony in which these themes gain protected status. It also theorizes that the unique interactive environment of the breastaurant between (mostly) male patrons and attractive female servers who provide heterosexual aesthetic labor to the patrons, primarily in the form of ersatz sexual availability, produces these masculinity features. Given their current rapid expansion and popularity within masculine subcultures, the breastaurant therefore becomes an important site for critical masculinities research. Practice implications are discussed for management and counseling professionals who aim to improve outcomes in social and professional situations for both women and men.
Published here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-018-0962-0
(paywalled, $39.95, which would be better spent at Hooters, I think)
The journal:
Sex Roles – A Journal of Research
Description
Sex Roles: A Journal of Research is a global, multidisciplinary, scholarly, social and behavioral science journal with a feminist perspective. It publishes original research reports as well as original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles that explore how gender organizes people’s lives and their surrounding worlds, including gender identities, belief systems, representations, interactions, relations, organizations, institutions, and statuses.
The range of topics covered is broad and dynamic, including but not limited to the study of gendered attitudes, stereotyping, and sexism; gendered contexts, culture, and power; the intersections of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, age, and other statuses and identities; body image; violence; gender (including masculinities) and feminist identities; human sexuality; communication studies; work and organizations; gendered development across the life span or life course; mental, physical, and reproductive health and health care; sports; interpersonal relationships and attraction; activism and social change; economic, political, and legal inequities; and methodological challenges and innovations in doing gender research.
The journal also publishes invited book reviews that address gender-relevant topics.
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The author Richard Baldwin has been identified as one of those hoax authors
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/dog-parks-are-petri-dishes-for-canine-rape-culture-and-more-of-the-ridiculous-studies-a-team-of-hoaxsters-got-published-in-academic-journals
It’s not pornography, or even sexual exploitation. There are no “burdens” produced or disposed. It is feminine females and masculine males. #HateLovesAbortion
Some girls (Feminists) hate the fact that they gave up control to men about 6000 years ago. Live with it girls!
Any married man, and, I expect, any single man beyond a certain age knows the women are actually in control. It’s part of the strategy to let men think they have the power.
Did the researchers observe how a blind man would get a feel for the Hooters environment? Braille maybe not effective enough, or too effective?
That paper is Coyote Ugly (R-13)
You all know what coyote ugly means don’t you?
I didn’t read the papery, but I did do a google-image on “Hooters” – very informative.
Peek over the paywall at Sci-Hub.tw
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0962-0
Well, replication is an important part of research. It is also important to examine whether there may be some unrecognized confounding variables that may cause misleading results. To that endeavor: there are two other establishments in my area (alas, I have been to neither), Twin Peaks and the Tilted Kilt, which offer similar dining environments.
Obviously, in the name of science this research needs to be replicated in these other locations to determine if the results are applicative to all such establishments, or exclusively to Hooters. Perhaps the studies could examine the economic, social, political, sexual/gender identification, racial, and religious differences of both the clients and workers of these establishments to discern a pattern of similarities and differences in these geographically distributed establishments. Clearly, many years of research are necessary, and we should gird our loins to face the task ahead of us. Where can we get the necessary grants?
I think someone should do a serious grant application to further this research, … just to see if a grant would be awarded for it. I suspect it would.
I’m a regular reader of this site and I’m very disappointed to see an article of this nature. Look, I’m no prude nor a feminist but I personally think this topic has no relevance on this website. I have referred family and friends here to read important climate information and now I’m questioning whether this was a wise decision.
This is a discussion about a fake research paper that was actually published. That makes it fair game for this website (actually, whatever Anthony wants on the site is fair game. It’s his site).
If you think this is inappropriate, then you don’t see the flaming absurdities taking place in the soft ‘sciences’, much of it funded with your tax dollars. Derision, mockery, sarcasm, and lampooning of those journals and their published research is entirely deserved. If you don’t like the nature of the topic, or the obvious mockery, perhaps your complaint should be with the journal that published the ‘research’.
Did you get your degree (assuming you have one) in a soft science, or perhaps female studies?
What’s next sexual assault from leering ?
Pretty easy to figure out who the liar is . Ford’s “witnesses ” all dispute her claim and one is her old girl friend .
Oh well just in time for the Christmas book sale and the Jimmy Kibble talk show .
Thanks for motivating the Republican base though . They are tired of the freak show of sleazy lawyers ,
porn actors and leaking Democrat weasels .
Kavanagh getting in just saved this fruit cake and her lying lawyers from getting their asses sued off .
Leered at? Funny you should write that. In today’s Daily Mail is this article:
“More than a third of school girls have been sexually harassed while wearing their uniform, survey finds”
“Children’s charity Plan International UK polled 1,004 girls aged 14 to 21 and 35 per cent reported being groped, stared at, catcalled or wolf-whistled while wearing their uniform in public.“
So just staring (which I believe connotes something less offensive than leering) is now considered sexual harassment by some.
The question that needed to be asked to put this in proper context was, “Have you ever deliberately worn your uniform in a way that would encourage boys or men to stare, catcall, or wolf-whistle at you?” I think the ‘yes’ response would be more that 35% (and those who did but failed to get the attention they were seeking are probably still upset).
His exciting research won the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics. Female students striptease in French National Lab with Nobel laureate
How in the world did the journal get fooled…. I read the opening paragraph and thought — “this guy just admitted to hanging around a bar famed for top heavy waitresses for two years — and is calling it research”
The “shenanigans” alarm starts going off before the first paragraph is done.
Close to home – check
Attractive, hospitable and friendly staff – check
Alcohol served – check
Foodstuffs – check
Sporting events always on – check
Not Rocket, or Social ‘Science’