Comments on: Couple kicked out of restaurant for being girls, kissing.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:01:02 +0000

@12.Drivebyposter says:

I think the proper response is to throw a party there for gay couples and have everyone kiss every 15 minutes.

*only* every 15 minutes? ;-)

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:59:45 +0000

Bloody hell. Inthis day and age? Really?

Two girls kissing is well sweet. Good for them, terible for the restaurant – wonder how many other customers it has now permanently or temporarily lost.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:40:14 +0000

@10. I do think you’re over-reacting. The manager didn’t physically assault someone (which is the case in your second example).

I think Sheraton’s response was quick and effective. And the end result will be broader in scope than just one manager’s knowledge. They ought to be given credit for their actions, which are a lot more progressive than I would have otherwise expected.

People can make mistakes in judgment without losing their jobs. Not every incident requires a nuclear attack in response.

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:54:00 +0000

I think the proper response is to throw a party there for gay couples and have everyone kiss every 15 minutes.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:06:51 +0000

Marcus, good point. I knew that but didn’t mention it.

Last time I was in a restaurant there there were brown lesbians touching each other and stuff. One of them had the audacity to have her arm around me too, but we didn’t get thrown out. (I hasten to add in all fairness that almost all the patrons in that restaurant were there because they were invited by the brown gay one on the right, so the place would have gotten awful empty …)

By: Rabidtreeweasel

Rabidtreeweasel — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:30:57 +0000

In the Sheraton’s response, I got the impression the manager received a slap on the wrist. Now, I am running a high fever, so maybe I’m over reacting, but that seems like an offense that is grounds for dismissal. Giving diversity training in response to blatant discrimination seems equivalent to taking a sexual harassment course for squeezing a woman’s boobs and shouting, “Now entering sexy town.” He overtly and publically shamed them, and his excuse was that the heterosexual white males told him to do so.

By: marcus

marcus — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:44:47 +0000

ZOMFG, Oh it was much worse than,”… them being female or be them being intimate females.” They were intimate brown females! I”m sure that raised the “icky” factor for those asshole bigots by a factor of ten.
I’m not quite sure how I would have handled this back when I was managing a restaurant, if there was a lot of spit swapping going on (and doesn’t seem like there was)I might have asked them to tone it down a bit(same as if it had been a het couple). They were probably just being obviously in love. I certainly wouldn’t have asked them to leave. Somewhere along the way I would have had to let the jerks know they were being jerks.

By: scenario

scenario — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:25:35 +0000

If I ever ate in that restaurant, I’d demand to see the manager every time I saw anyone kiss, man/woman, woman/baby etc. and demand that they be thrown out.

By: Mr.Kosta

Mr.Kosta — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:59:41 +0000

Once again the religion of love shows its true colors. Ugh.

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:46:07 +0000

they could have suggested that they stop,

That would have been wrong too.