Pub Owner Goes On Epic Facebook Rant After Getting Tired Of Customer’s Sexism

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A pub and brewery owner has made a stand for women everywhere after getting sick and tired of the way his female staff are treated. 

In fact, Jordan Gleason, a founder of the Black Acre Brewing Company, is so sick of the shit his staff have to endure that he’s decided he’s not standing for it any more.

In an extremely long and passionate Facebook status, Gleason, from Indianapolis, U.S, called out the kind of sexist crap that women have to deal with everyday.

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He wrote:

Today I had to explain to a 60 year old man why he was banned from the pub.

In January he made several sexist remarks about the female staff that were working. He told them to their faces that that he liked looking at their tits while they washed dishes, and their asses while they were pouring drinks.

He was told to leave and not come back. He came back yet again today, and when told he wouldn’t be served demanded to talk to a manger.

I sat with him for a few minutes as he explained that what he said would have been okay 20 years ago, and that it was just some off colour remarks. He told me he had apologized, and that he guessed my servers were too sensitive.

He then told me that if what he said was a problem, then I should tell them not to wear low cut shirts, and that I should face the dish washing sink away from customers.

Gleason told the old creep that under no circumstance would he be getting served again.

The pub owner also added:

Folks who think that just because we’re serving, we don’t deserve any basic decency or respect. I’ve been snapped at, mocked, threatened, and insulted about not having a real job. Anybody in this line of work gets used to a degree of it and develops a thicker skin.

Here’s the thing though, women in this field get infinitely more disgustingly treated. The sheer number of times they get groped, or harassed, or treated like objects would blow your mind. The worst of it is how normal their harassers think their behaviour is. Every single lady in here handles it with grace and aplomb, and I applaud them for it.

I’ve had their backs as we’ve bounced people out for that trash, but countless times they just deal with it before it even gets to me.

Sometimes the dudes get so worked up that they demand to see a manager, and I get called in to speak with them.

Gleeson finished on a particularly strong note:

Every single fucking time they attempt to appeal to me solely because I’m a man. They try to weasel in with me about how the women are asking for it.

That women shouldn’t dress that way if they don’t want to be stared at. They attempt to explain it away as just “dudes being dudes.” It’s expected for men to stare at women’s breasts and make jokes about how much they want to fuck them.

Wink Wink. Of course you’ll understand they think, because you also have a dick. What terrifies and enrages me is how every one of them thinks that this is normal behaviour, but also that other men will agree with them.

So why am I writing this? I want to acknowledge the struggle of every single woman who will read this. You deserve our respect and to be treated with decency. I want to stand up and say, I’m fucking sick of this.

Gleason’s post has been shared over 6,000 times, and the comments on the post have been mostly positive with people thanking Gleason for his post.

Good on Jordan for speaking up about this issue.

Tom Percival

More of a concept than a journalist, Tom Percival was forged in the bowels of Salford University from which he emerged grasping a Masters in journalism.

Since then his rise has been described by himself as ‘meteoric’ rising to the esteemed rank of Social Editor at UNILAD as well as working at the BBC, Manchester Evening News, and ITV.

He credits his success to three core techniques, name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake.