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Starbucks Barista’s ‘Secret Note’ on Cup to Help Young Woman Sparks Heated Debate: ‘What Are Men Supposed to Do?’
New York Post ^ | Oct. 18, 2023

Posted on 10/18/2023 11:37:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A Starbucks barista’s secret note on a cup to a young female customer offering to “intervene” after a man started talking to her has generated heated debate online.

Texas woman Brandy Selim Roberson first shared the story in a viral Facebook post last year.

She praised the employee for stepping in when her 18-year-old daughter was approached by a man she didn’t know while studying by herself at a Corpus Christi location.

The message on the cup read, “Are you okay? Do you want us to intervene? If you do, take the lid off the cup.”

SNIP

Author Rachel Wilson wrote, “Feminism has created mass hysteria that men are nothing but violent assault machines, and that the only thing stopping them from enslaving the entire female sex is feminist activism and laws. It’s insanity and it must stop. Women’s studies departments should be shut down.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barista; feminism; intervene; metoo; secret; starbucks; wboopie
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1 posted on 10/18/2023 11:37:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What Are Men Supposed to Do? Never go to starbucks


2 posted on 10/18/2023 11:38:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nickcarraway

Then one sees all the TikTok videos of women complaining men no longer approach them.


3 posted on 10/18/2023 11:41:22 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: butlerweave

Don’t approach younger women you don’t know. That’s creepy


4 posted on 10/18/2023 11:42:19 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: nickcarraway

The modern Western woman doesn’t need a man in her life, but requires the support of entire police departments, plus baristas in coffee shops, to protect her from all of the strange men she meets in life.


5 posted on 10/18/2023 11:42:23 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: C19fan

Exactly.


6 posted on 10/18/2023 11:42:40 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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““The man was very loud and animated … “

The employees did the right thing. This is aggressive behavior and some men don't know how to act in public. Sometimes it's just an annoyance, sometimes it's more.

7 posted on 10/18/2023 11:46:13 AM PDT by Varda
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“This gave me goosebumps,” the account wrote in a post that has been viewed 20.5 million times. “As a parent, this story shook me to the core, but also gave me hope that there's still some humanity out there.”

Huh? How many extreme male creeps meet women at Starbucks, rather than at a bar?

8 posted on 10/18/2023 11:47:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The barista did the right thing. But maybe some people will think this is male chauvinism or mansplaining or whatnot.


9 posted on 10/18/2023 11:47:26 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Nifster

What kind of women go to starbucks , I’ve been there


10 posted on 10/18/2023 11:47:31 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Varda

Reverse the roles and they’d have done nothing.


11 posted on 10/18/2023 11:48:49 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: ConservativeMind; Darksheare
Huh? How many extreme male creeps meet women at Starbucks, rather than at a bar?

Just those who drink Darksheare's coffee...

12 posted on 10/18/2023 11:49:30 AM PDT by null and void (The Democrats want denser housing with denser people living in them.)
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To: nickcarraway

There is nothing remotely attractive about young women today. Even my opportunity to be a randy old man has been stolen from me


13 posted on 10/18/2023 11:49:52 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: nickcarraway

Once upon a time brothers, sons and fathers who were nearby made short work of men that pestered women...


14 posted on 10/18/2023 11:50:08 AM PDT by Bobalu (The political prosecution of Donald Trump marks the official end of US democracy.)
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“Don’t approach younger women you don’t know. That’s creepy.”

Well, sure, if you’re a 50 year-old man, don’t approach a young woman you don’t know in Starbucks.

But what if you’re a young man in the same age? It’s “creepy” now to strike up a conversation? “Oh, you’re reading Crime and Punishment? Such a great novel!” That sort of thing is out of bounds now?


15 posted on 10/18/2023 11:50:43 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: mrmeyer

That’s because men and women are different and most people respond to that reality.


16 posted on 10/18/2023 11:52:15 AM PDT by Varda
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To: butlerweave

She should get up and leave. It’s unfair that women have to deal with it but if it’s aggressive she may have no choice. I’ve seen it happen all too often.


17 posted on 10/18/2023 11:52:45 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: irishjuggler

Yes, unless you drive up in a Ferrari and look like Brad Pitt, you’re not worth the attention of today’s young women


18 posted on 10/18/2023 11:52:49 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: butlerweave

“What Are Men Supposed to Do? Never go to starbucks”

Most well-off men steer clear of Starbucks. Guess a pricey coffee doesn’t quite stir their interest!


19 posted on 10/18/2023 11:53:13 AM PDT by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: monkeyshine

> The barista did the right thing. <

I totally agree. She didn’t make a scene. She didn’t raise a big fuss. She just asked if the customer was okay. One person unobtrusively looking out for another. We need more of that.


20 posted on 10/18/2023 11:53:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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