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New trend in Northwest espresso: embarrassingly dressed baristas
ViolentDove:
Um, people doing these kind of jobs don't wear the bikinis/g-strings on their way home. Just so you know.
I have friends who are lingerie waitresses and dancers (the pole kind). If I told them I thought they were being exploited, marginalised, or anything else, they'd laugh in my face. Not that I'd tell them anything of the type, mind you.
Inlander:
So, here's an interesting dilemma. I find the idea of these kinds of places really tacky and seedy and I'd never set foot in one - but on the other hand, where I live there are easily a dozen cafes within a ten-minute walk from my house, and in deciding which one to patronise on any given day I have in the past based my decision upon which cafe has the prettier waitresses, simply because it adds to my enjoyment of the experience. So, what's the difference? Why do I feel comfortable in one situation but appalled by the other? Is it because the semi-nudity of the "sexpresso" places makes it all so overt? Is it more acceptable for me to go where the pretty faces are, than it would be if I went chasing the boobs? I'm interested to hear what people think because I can't quite get my head around it and I'm wondering if it's a double-standard.
ViolentDove:
I don't think it's a double-standard. The degree of nudity people are comfortable with is subjective, and varies from person to person, and culture to culture. People in Australia definitely find nudity more confronting than a pretty face, or even other things, like violence.
Would it make a difference to you if you knew that the cafe with the pretty waitresses only hired pretty waitresses because of their looks?
Would you work in a cafe that catered to customers that were beard-fetishists?
Alex C:
--- Quote from: ViolentDove on 11 Jan 2009, 19:13 ---Would it make a difference to you if you knew that the cafe with the pretty waitresses only hired pretty waitresses because of their looks?
--- End quote ---
To me, that's really the only big, worrying issue with this kind of thing. The rest of it just hits me as "Oh noez, not boobies!"
vegkitkat:
I feel like my biggest concern may be the possibility of burns. That's a lot of exposed skin ; somebody's going to spill sometime soon. And then can they fire you because you've horribly disfigured yourself (i'm assuming you are making a lot of coffee)?
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