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New trend in Northwest espresso: embarrassingly dressed baristas
RedLion:
People need to calm the hell down and stop reading so much into this. There really isn't some kind of deep meaning to this. The only meaning is what we've always known: sex sells. As long as the women aren't being exploited--and they're not--it's not a big deal. I would probably not go to this kind of place, but only because it's a strange, incongruous combination.
tania:
as much as that article disgusts and frustrates me, and as hard as it is for me to write the rest of this post, i do agree with alex that the women working there still have free will and the right to choose to do whatever they want for money. telling a woman to work in this kind of occupation is just as offensive as telling her she can't. in both scenarios, you're still undermining their intelligence and their ability to make their own decisions as to what they want to do with their lives.
i don't, however, like the fact that these coffee shops are putting other coffee shops out of business or forcing them to convert to the same business model. it doesn't leave a lot of alternatives for those people who don't want to support them.
jhocking:
What I found interesting to reflect on his how my feelings about appropriate attire are so context sensitive. Like, when I went to the article I barely paid any attention to the picture next to it because it looks so normal. Or rather, it looks just like hundreds of snack shops I've seen on the beach, and then it occurred to me that the picture isn't a snack shop on the beach. I mean, it's pretty routine for girls wearing bikini tops to be staffing a beach snack shop, and so in that context you wouldn't give it a second thought (actually, probably not even a first thought.) But a coffee-shop located somewhere inland, in the midst of a bitter winter (I'm assuming the article is talking about right now,) well that's pretty odd.
This sort of compartmentalizing of what's appropriate in different situations is perfectly normal and sensible, but it is still interesting to reflect on when you are made consciously aware of it.
Mr. Skawronska:
Kinda reminds me of the theme of Idiocracy.
S
Professor Snuggles:
This is awesome
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