Dismantlers Of Patriarchy Dismantled
A feminist-owned and operated cafe that made headlines around the world after introducing an 18% “man tax” on male customers will be closing its doors at the end of the month. Handsome Her, a vegan establishment located in Melbourne, Australia, will be going out of business on April 28, according to an announcement on its website.
It turns out that “brazen public discussions of structural inequality and oppression,” rules about women having “priority seating,” and serving turmeric lattes with macadamia milk, isn’t in fact the basis of a thriving business. Even in Brunswick, Melbourne. However, the empowered proprietors insist that the mockery aimed at their pricing policy merely “showed us how fragile masculinity is and solidified the necessity for us to confront and dismantle patriarchy.”
Via Orwell & Goode.
They should have taken marketing tips from http://www.owk.cz
“fatphobic” science is “often actually eugenic science….eugenic science is Nazi science.”
Screaming at the telescreen, because the mirror is frightening.
“What are the odds they haven’t learned a thing?” Oh, they learned a lesson or two. Undoubtedly the wrong ones…
“showed us how fragile masculinity is and solidified the necessity for us to…double down?
Espresso with a danish. Would you like an extended diatribe on the evils of the patriarchy with that?
Guess not!
In other food news, NYC’s Mayor de Blahblahblah is banning hot dogs … cuz climate change.
Strategic placement of said offending sausages would take care of his contribution to ‘climate change’.
Would you like an extended diatribe on the evils of the patriarchy with that?
Why yes, thank you, with an extra helping of obfuscatory gibberish.
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Maybe the thing they could learn is how to code
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Fixed it, I hope
Try again
*slinks away*
[ Opens new file. Calls it troublemakers. ]
If I’m down as a troublemaker, any thoughts about little Greta Thunberg, David?
any thoughts about little Greta Thunberg, David?
Nothing worth sharing, at the moment.
Applying Occam’s Razor – whereby the simplest explanation may be the best – to the man-hating restaurant suggests that possibly their food was lousy.
Applying Occam’s Razor – whereby the simplest explanation may be the best – to the man-hating restaurant suggests that possibly their food was lousy.
Using Occam’s razor I’ll go with mediocre instead of lousy: It’s very difficult to succeed in that business, and most restaurants close after a couple years or less. There is lots of competition, profit margins are thin, hours are long, and it is difficult to attract and keep customers. It helps to find an underserved niche market, but there are just not that many man-hating vegans who eat out regularly. And I would not be surprised to learn that what the women who opened this restaurant brought to the business was primarily a political obsession and that their business skills were marginal.