| "Take off your mask" zu Kellnerinnen |  |
So richtig schön eklig. Aber beleuchtet wenigstens erneut den Umstand, dass die armen Schweine dort drüben nur knapp 2 Dollar die Stunde verdienen, sich den Rest über Trinkgeld rausholen müssen und darum dem geilen alten Säcken mehr oder minder ausgeliefert sind. Ich weiß nicht, was mit diesen Leuten nicht stimmt. Ich würde im Leben nicht drauf kommen, sowas zu einer Kellnerin zu sagen.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/masks-restaurant-harassment-pandemic/2020/12/09/d8100674-397b-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html]
"(...) “Take off your mask,” the diner instructed her while she took his order one afternoon. “I want to see your beautiful smile.”
“If I do it, it makes me seem like I have no respect for myself,” Tran thought, weighing her options. “But if I don’t, he’s going to leave me a bad tip.” Before the pandemic, Tran could make $200 a night. Now she often went hours into her shift without seating a single customer, and her base pay was $2.13 an hour. She needed the money. So from a six-foot distance, she pulled down her mask. She felt “like a circus animal,” standing there while the customer pressed her to tell him her ethnicity, saying she was a “beautiful mix.”
“Take off your mask,” a man ordered Drew Allison after she served him at the bar where she works in Knoxville, Tenn. “I want to see your face; maybe you have moles under there.” The statement was so bizarre that Allison obeyed without thinking, briefly pulling her mask below her chin. Only later did she realize the implication: If the man found her attractive enough, he planned to tip her more. From then on, when a male customer requested she take off her mask — and it kept happening — it almost felt like he was asking her to take off her shirt.
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“The men seem to think it’s charming,” said Haeli Maas, a bartender in Lawrence, Kan. “But the way they say it — take off your mask — the connotation becomes something dirty. I’m 22. These men are in their 50s, and they’re saying to me, ‘You’re really pretty. I wish you didn’t have to wear that mask.’ ”
Before the pandemic, these men might have been ogling her anyway; she knows that. But “Take off your mask” had made the transaction explicit. These men weren’t even trying to hide their staring. They were making it clear that they felt entitled to her face, and they saw providing it as part of her job.
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But what “Take off your mask” really does is make explicit a power imbalance that’s always been there. It is one group of people announcing, in the starkest possible terms, that their viewing pleasure is more important than another group’s personal safety.
“In a way, it’s refreshing to finally have that level of honesty, finally,” Brooks said. “We’ve dropped the pretense that this is not a looks-based profession. I have regulars who have said to me, ‘I really only came in here because you looked pretty.’ And now we can have a conversation about how my literal paycheck now depends on how well I can contour my face or do my hair.” (...)"