Perhaps you've heard of the new term "sexpresso," the melding of Hooter's-style waitresses with a Starbucks-type barista. There's Cowgirl's Espresso, whose theme is "Giddy Up;" Java Girls, featuring "sexy barista models;" and The Sweet Spot Cafe, where you can get "a delicious drink with a wink and a smile."
But now, the coffee industry has thrown bikinis aside in favor of topless coffee. In Vassalboro, Maine, the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop is open for business.
Interestingly, the company is reported to have received 150 applicants for the 10 positions available. This begs the question: Is this kind of employment degrading or empowering to women, particularly in this economy?
According to the local newspaper's report, here are what the topless waitresses themselves are saying:
Asked whether the shop is degrading to women, [Susie] Wiley said, "No, I love it. I find it very empowering, not degrading."
"It's just a body part," [waitress Kris Kelley] said. "There are more serious issues to worry about in this country than something like this."
Of course, many female residents of the town have a different opinion entirely. Still, one has to wonder, if these women are in control of the ways they choose to reveal their bodies, are they being objectified? If they find this to be a choice for economic survival, is it still a choice? Feel free to log your opinions in the comments section.
I do have to say that while the sexpresso shops mentioned above are mostly run by women, the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop is run by a man...a man who lives in the motel attached to the shop.
I think this is sort of creepy.
And the owner's comment in the local newspaper story?
We want to keep the girls respectable, not trashy...The biggest thing is keeping people happy.
Hmm...one has to wonder who he's keeping happy: the waitresses or the clients.
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It may be the Protestant/American sense of shame I was raised with. It may be the aesthetics--if I were to go to Hooters, I would feel awkwardly overdressed, and I imagine that feeling would only intensify if I were being served coffee by topless women. It may be that I tend to be anti-pornography, although not militant--I think that objectification exists and is bad, even if you knowingly and willingly become the subject. That you can't ever fully subvert it. But I'm just really not feeling the topless coffee place.
But I guess I'm for the freedom of these women to choose to work there. I wouldn't patronize the place, though.
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