chauvinism and racism
My post on yelp.com today: Belvederes Men’s Day Spa I am obviously a woman and therefore have not patronized this establishment. I’m giving it one star because the guy who’s there all the time is a disgusting asshole. I work down the street from this place and am often forced to walk past it to get food. Dude sits outside all day and makes suggestive sounds and comments to women. I try very hard to walk out in the street when I must past by, hoping I’ll go unnoticed. If he does say anything I just act like I didn’t hear it. Today, since I was in the street, he decided if he YELLED at me I’d respond. “Strawberry! Hey, Strawberry!” Aw, how endearing. BARF! I yelled back, “Don’t talk to me. NEVER talk to me!” and made my way into Little City to order lunch. Uh…he FOLLOWED me in! And standing very close to me at the counter, towering intimidatingly over me said (get this), “You got a problem with a black man talking to you?” Oh fucking PLEASE! “This has NOTHING to do with your race. Don’t talk to me.” He leaves, I stew. Order a salad from the nice young man behind the counter. Wait, stew, receive salad, thank nice man, walk right over to Belvederes MEN’S Day Spa and say, “I owe it to myself to give you an explanation. I see you oogling and cat calling women out here all the time. It’s demeaning and rude.” Rude Demeaning Man calmly explains that he’s just trying to round up business, that’s all. Take a moment to process that…. HOW in the HELL does talking down to women passing by muster up business in your MENs day spa?! Do men see him doing that and say, “That’s the place for me!” I went on to tell him it’s rude and he went on to tell me I’m the first to think so. Again, I say BARF! I’m proud I finally said something. We’ll see how my future trips to happy salad town go.
5 months ago