[ SECRET POST #3547 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3547 ⌋

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Comments

Re: OP

[arcadiaego]

There's a whole group of people who find Coffeeshop AUs to be horrible and problematic because it romanticizes the harassment that coffeeshop workers and others in the service industry regularly face!

Wow, really?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I saw someone who said they upset her because she'd been stalked by a customer when she worked as a barista and other people sharing stories of inappropriate and sexually harassing customers (which also included stories of women stalking male workers too) and so how the whole genre romanticizes something that's often a real life problem.

My feeling is that the kind of people who read fanfiction Coffeeshop AUs and the kind of people who harass service workers is unlikely to have a huge overlap so I personally don't consider it high on the list of harmful tropes, but I can see why it would bother people and how it could be considered problematic.

Re: OP

[arcadiaego]

I'd never thought of it that way before but I can understand why it would make people uncomfortable to see that genre everywhere.