We have another story about a business small or large that gets #woke and “goes broke.” Some fail and disappear; others lose market share or (in the case of entertainment) ratings. Some start out doomed, like this joint.
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A lesbian-owned, vegan coffee shop opened its doors in 2017 with a plan to put women first. There’s nothing wrong with that. Whenever I take a woman out, I do my best to put her first. They have other ideas.
The lesbian-owned, vegan coffee shop asked men to pay an 18% ‘man tax’ to make up for the mythical pay gap.
The result?
“The man tax blew up the internet, an idea that we didn’t think was all too radical, yet the way the world responded showed us how fragile masculinity is and solidified the necessity for us to confront and dismantle patriarchy.
“We were just one little tiny shop on Sydney Rd that was trying to carve out a swathe of space to prioritise women and women’s issues, and suddenly we became the punching bag of Melbourne and the internet.
The Feminist Cafe had to close its doors in early 2019. No, not male fragility, (or the pay gap) it was Bankruptcy, or so the rumor goes—a strange problem to have given the location.
In 2019 Melbourne, Australia had 5 million people living in it at a median age of 36, a larger percentage of whom were women (there was a man drought for many years prior).
All things being unequal, the man-taxin’, down with the patriarchy, lesbian-owned vegan coffee shop that blew up the internet, should have had smooth sailing. They didn’t need men or even women who like men more than women who are angry at men.
So what happened?
Maybe (and I’ve no idea) they tried to tax transwomen as men?
It probably had something to do with those things that can kill such ventures faster than Andy Cuomo can wipe out a nursing home population. Lousy menu (Gasp! that word has ‘men’ in it), bad food, high prices, poor service, or mismanagement (Gasp! that word has ‘man’ in it).
Or, we could blame masculine fragility and the systemic discrimination of the patriarchy.
The latter is much easier than the former.
