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Massachusetts lesbian bar faces boycott after lifting face mask rule (www.thepinknews.com)

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And a Boston globe article that had a paywall and the title wasnt as fun:
https://archive.li/Bh47J

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[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 days ago

A community meeting on 11 September was held to address the controversy, with some participants joining via Zoom to voice their opinions on the new mask mandate.

During the meeting, Jackie Matellian, the bar’s last remaining owner after the other two owners quit months earlier, became emotional while speaking about the pressure she was under.

“It was not my passion project,” Matellian said. She said she had been left responsible for a $50,000 business loan, and had been living in a car for six months while working four jobs. “I never really wanted this,” she added. “I don’t think I’m doing a very good job.”

This community meeting was not able to bring forth a resolution.

This really says more about the community than anything else.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days ago

Its honestly tragic that people can be this vitriolic over someone who impacted their own life so hard to provide the kind of third space that people beg for.

Literally a group of J Jonah Jameson's.

[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i'm someone who managed a third space. it became successful.

then I gave up, because it became nothing but people shoving their personal politics down everyone else's throats and demanding the space ONLY be for 'people like them'. I straight up quit, because all I could see was people who wanted to turn our third space into a space for them and theirs, and exclude anyone who didn't look/speak the way they wanted, including myself.

this is the problem with 'inclusivity' and all that. there is no such thing. all there are is different versions of exclusivity, and people will get violent and hostile if you try to take their exclusivity away.

because it's not about social justice, it's about their own weird egotistical power trip.

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