Last Saturday after a youth football game, one of my friends and I took our 11-year-old sons to Hooters for lunch.  Both boys knew what Hooters is known for and one of them actively wanted to go while the other didn't show any outward signs of interest but perhaps he was just good at hiding it.  In any case, we had a decent lunch and joked about young boys hanging around with well endowed girls.  Before leaving our waitress obliged us by taking a picture with the boys.

Days later, I told my sister-in-law about it and her immediate reaction was, "How could you?"

Had I made a mistake and encouraged my son to think of women as objects to be gawked at and joked about by men (or boys), or was it just some harmless fun and perhaps I had even gained an insight into where my son on the eve of puberty stands on this issue?

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