Hooters and ‘Alpha Male’ Comments From Conservative Pundit Spark Backlash

Hooters, the restaurant chain equally famous for its wings and its well-endowed waitresses, started trending on social media Monday thanks to a conservative commentator’s tweets.

Australia-born pundit and author Nick Adams argued that true “Alpha males” dine at Hooters. From there, Twitter users had a field day making fun of Adams’ hot take.

Adams shot off a series of Hooters-related tweets, with one explaining that he’d visited the franchise recently.

“I was at Hooters over the weekend when I overheard two stunning waitresses discussing their plans to vote on Tuesday,” Adams tweeted on Monday. “They both were undecided but said they were leaning Republican because of the cost of gas and groceries. I pray those two lovely ladies make the right call!”

Actors Krysten Ritter and Alice Eve become “Honorary Hooters Girls” at an Atlanta Hooters on February 23, 2010. Conservative commentator Nick Adams defended the chain in a series of tweets on Monday. Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Paramount

Four minutes later, he continued on his Hooters tangent, writing: “I am sick and tired of beta males and feminists trying to guilt alpha males out of eating at Hooters. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with eating at Hooters on a weekly basis, EVEN with the family and kids.”

After another four minutes, Adams posted this additional offering:

“Alpha males eat wings and drink beer at Hooters with the boys, Beta males nibble on tapas at Spanish Vegan cafes with their wives,” he tweeted.

Adams, who includes the term “(Alpha Male)” in his Twitter display name, elicited quite the reaction from the platform’s users.

“fellas, is it gay to have a wife that likes to be with you?” one user, @WrenisPinkl, replied.

“If you have to call yourself an alpha male, you’re not one,” commented John Biggan, who previously ran for Congress in Texas as a Democrat.

“As a former Hooters girl I can assure you only betas who liked to think they were ‘alpha males’ ate there,” actress and producer Devanny Pinn wrote in a tweet. “And we all laughed when you left.”

“Your choices of hills to die on is truly fascinating,” tweeted user @TwerkMcguirk.

Writing to Newsweek, Adams insisted that the restaurant is family-friendly and pointed out that the waitresses’ uniforms are “less revealing than any public beach or pool.

“I feel that Hooters are unfairly maligned, and a victim of the vacuous ideology that is political correctness,” he continued. “Sadly, the woke mob has decided to make them a piece on their miserable chessboard.”

Adams also pointed to Hooters’ track record of charitable work, later adding: “It’s a frequent healthy and safe place for male bonding. In a world where men are no longer allowed to be men by feminists and beta males, Hooters must be defended.”

The commentator’s take on Hooters may have rubbed some on social media the wrong way, but he continued on with his roaring defense of the franchise. Late Monday afternoon, he posted a video of himself further praising the establishment and encouraging folks to drop the tofu, pumpkin spice lattes and “rabbit food.”

“Hooters is fantastic,” Adams says in the video. “The view is good. The food is good. The drinks are good.”

Newsweek has reached out to Hooters representatives for comment.