{"id":5996,"date":"2015-04-26T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T08:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:05:47","slug":"sexism-in-cafe-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5996","title":{"rendered":"Sexism in caf\u00e9 society"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unnamed caf\u00e9 in Bristol is apparently serving his and hers breakfasts.<\/p>\n

\"caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s right! Men get to scoff tortilla, bacon, sausages, 2 token items of fruit\/vegetables (tomato and mushroom), Cheddar cheese, ham roll and butter, whilst women are supposed to pick their way daintily through muffin, poached egg, smoked salmon, salad leaves, cherry tomatoes, avocado, red onion, blueberries, yoghurt and pumpkin seeds.<\/p>\n

Men can obviously let their figures go to pot (and blood cholesterol levels too. Ed.<\/em>), whilst women are automatically assumed to be on a diet; women have “gotta stay slim for our men obvz<\/em>” in the scathing words of one on social media.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time that sexism has emerged at breakfast time (posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Update 30\/04\/15:<\/em><\/strong> The his and hers labels are being removed from the menu according to the Western Daily Press<\/a>, which also revealed the name of the establishment as Caffe Be On. In addition, this post was quoted in yesterday’s Daily Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hat tip: MarinaS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unnamed caf\u00e9 in Bristol is apparently serving his and hers breakfasts. Yes, that’s right! Men get to scoff tortilla, bacon, sausages, 2 token items of fruit\/vegetables (tomato and mushroom), Cheddar cheese, ham roll and butter, whilst women are supposed to pick their way daintily through muffin, poached egg, smoked salmon, salad leaves, cherry tomatoes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,34],"tags":[40,10,25,35],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-bristol","tag-facepalm","tag-food","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}