[ SECRET POST #4101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4101 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are readers who find the concept problematic because of the power imbalance between customers and retail/food service workers. And how in real life, it's annoying and creepy when customers think a worker is flirting when they're just doing their job (or the customer deliberately tries to take advantage of the fact that the worker can't get away from them and has to be nice).

But this isn't real life, it's fanfiction. And...I would bet at least half of the readers and writers of Coffeeshop type AUs have worked, or currently work, in some sort of retail or food service job. So it's not like they're unaware of the above, and they have a right to decide for themselves if that's a fantasy they want to have anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

> problematic because of the power imbalance between customers and retail/food service workers.

Are we reaching the point where humanity has to die out because all relationships are potentially problematic?

[cloudtrader]

You don't think it's problematic when a customer reaches over the counter to pet the barista's hair and she just has to stand there and smile and hand him the coffee? Because she's young and doesn't know how to deal with that inappropriate behavior and the guy is older and in a business suit and calls her "sweetheart" and tips everyone really well, she feels powerless. And her mental energy is taken up thinking about how to avoid him when he comes in and no one understands how distressing it really is, they just tease her that a nice guy has a crush on her. She might even wonder if it will turn dangerous when he says that he really looks forward to seeing her when he comes in, and she thinks about things she's read about obsession and stalking.

Yeah, that happened to me. There is absolutely a power imbalance and there should be concerns about such things being problematic.

But really, I just hate those stories because they're super fucking boring.