Went to our local coffee Emporium and noticed i'm apparently supposed to care which gender picked the coffee beans ?

Okymyo · 2014-05-19T14:57:17+00:00

Am I the only one who started imagining how ridiculous society would be if things contained the gender that harvested/built it?

TheRealMouseRat · 2014-05-19T16:59:10+00:00

Well, coffee is usually picked in developing countries. In those countries there has never been a 100 year feminism wave. In those countries, fighting for women's rights to work is very important.

This is the feminism that is indeed needed in the world.

2014-05-19T17:57:03+00:00

I'm being overwhelmed by a surge of... indifference.

Also, now I'm thirsty for coffee.

dungone · 2014-05-19T19:37:49+00:00

Yeah so, is that supposed to be unusual in some way? Women have always been employed to harvest coffee. What about the rest of the growing process? The plowing, planting, fertilizing, irrigating, processing, hulling, storing, roasting, etc.

GiskardReventlov · 2014-05-19T16:14:54+00:00

I think /r/MensRants might be a better place to post this.

amphetaminesfailure · 2014-05-19T16:21:05+00:00

Unless women can purchase the women harvested beans for less money, I don't see how the "discrimination" tag fits this post.

Rolten · 2014-05-19T16:03:39+00:00

Since I don't think those beans were grown in the US, they were probably grown in a third world country. Countries where I think women still face some very serious issues. What they were trying to say with this note is not 'omgz, it was picked by a womyn' but more like 'This coffee was picked by giving women a chance to work in a country where they might not always have this right'.

Not a bad thing in my opinion.

shibbidybibbidy · 2014-05-19T18:11:21+00:00

Do you know how much extra I would pay to have my beans picked by women?

$0.00 on the dot, keep the change

IwasAxel · 2014-05-19T15:32:57+00:00

But were they paid the same as the male coffee pickers?

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-05-20T00:51:08+00:00

Of course you should care. Who the fuck wants to drink coffee made from beans picked by filthy male hands!?!?!

tallwheel · 2014-05-20T02:01:00+00:00

The stupidest thing about this is that I doubt female coffee bean pickers are uncommon at all. I don't have stats, but take a look at this google image search for "coffee bean pickers". Count the men vs. women in the images.

https://www.google.com/search?q=coffee+bean+pickers&tbm=isch

Female coffee bean pickers have never been uncommon. And the commenters here who said (to paraphrase) 'it was probably picked in a developing country where women probably are usually barred from working' are idiots, in my opinion. Picking coffee is usually not a very privileged or desirable job. It is performed by poor workers, and we should be more interested in whether they are being adequately compensated or not, rather than their gender.

2014-05-20T14:21:56+00:00

But was it harvested exclusively by transgendered lesbian women? No? Those homophobic transphobic bastards!

2014-05-19T20:29:34+00:00

Wow. Just...wow.

scanspeak · 2014-05-19T23:12:31+00:00

I'll be making a point NOT to purchase said coffee.

Roddy0608 · 2014-05-19T23:29:24+00:00

Does that make it taste better or something?

aslutrifles · 2014-05-19T23:42:49+00:00

It tastes extra good if you imagine her slaving away under the hot sun, wasting her youth and beauty in servitude to your caffeine cravings.

gsettle · 2014-05-20T00:17:31+00:00

I'm sorry! I don't give a Red Rat's A$$ about the gender that harvested the beans.

only_uses_expletives · 2014-05-19T16:12:20+00:00

See, it's pointless stupid fucking posts like this that makes me want to unsubscribe from here. When you post shit like this, it makes you all sound like a bunch of bitches. This shit makes you literally no better than the feminists. Quit it.

2014-05-19T15:35:43+00:00

Cool now I can get a sandwich made by a women, finally. ;)

2014-05-20T14:11:07+00:00

Don't go back.

LaGrrrande · 2014-05-19T16:08:15+00:00

Mmmm, discriminalicious.

SheepInWolvesClothin · 2014-05-19T15:49:45+00:00

Hell, yeah! I love the idea of only paying women 10c/hr to make my food. (Multiple levels of sarcasm here)

Ucanthandledatruth · 2014-05-20T02:02:22+00:00

When asked what flavor, simply say any but the ones picked by women.

2014-05-19T19:13:50+00:00

It's cool, her boss is a man.

beyondthewallofsleep · 2014-05-21T15:44:45+00:00

You should care that women have a chance to work in that place if they don't currently have equal rights/ability to work there. If the company was set up to give women a job in an area where women have no opportunities, then it's a good thing.

WomenAreAlwaysRigh · 2014-05-19T16:40:35+00:00

It's ok, it's not child labor when the children are disenfranchised girls.

WomenAreAlwaysRigh · 2014-05-19T18:24:53+00:00

they rub their vaginas with it so it has more value to the average degenerate.

modern_rabbit · 2014-05-19T14:09:25+00:00

Are you not a feminist? THEN CLEARLY THESE BEANS WEREN'T PICKED FOR YOU.

They probably think/know they get props for that from a demographic they serve, and just assume everyone else doesn't care...

Title	Went to our local coffee Emporium and noticed i'm apparently supposed to care which gender picked the coffee beans ?
Author	p3ngwin
Upvotes	183
Comments	78
Date	May 19, 2014 1:55 PM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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