Philly's first women's sports bar to close after barely a year

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Backyard Gator said:

It wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't so predictable.



Stop me if you've heard this story before: woman opens business geared toward LGB community, LGB employee there becomes upset, is fired, rants on social media, so LGB community 'cancels' the bar.

Apparently one of the allegations was the male GM said they'd be better off hiring more men because 'women and nonbinary employees were overly emotional'.

Article with allegations, including links to spurned employee's video claiming it "isn't a safe space"

https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/philadelphia-queer-sports-bar-controversy#toggle-gdpr


Article on closing

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"Unfortunately, a former employee was spreading lies about myself and the company," Anderson told The Inquirer on Thursday. "It just really affected our business and how the community saw us, and business just never kind of rebounded from that."


If you don't hire these people, they say you're phobic. If you hire them, one will inevitably accuse you of not being 'safe' and have you canceled. Damned if you do/damned if you don't.

So predictable.


The solution: don't cater to or hire the mentally ill
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Still struggling to understand the concept of a "safe place". Kind of leaning towards the view that a "safe place" is somewhere your views aren't challenged by reality or conflicts with someone else's viewpoints. Am I close?
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agent-maroon said:

Still struggling to understand the concept of a "safe place". Kind of leaning towards the view that a "safe place" is somewhere your views aren't challenged by reality or conflicts with someone else's viewpoints. Am I close?


Pretty much. See Blue Sky (safe space response to X) and Reddit as just two of several online examples where being conservative gets you banned.
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something, something, something....

someone punched a hole in the dike bar



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