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"Women are allowed to respond when there is danger in ways other than crying," says the #Seattle bikini barista (www.tiktok.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is she called bikini barista? She's not wearing a bikini.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There was a free speech fight in the courts about the right for women two wear swimsuits, many of them bikinis, while serving coffee in the Seattle area. Since then the popularized alliterative term 'bikini barista' has stuck to refer to all servers that sell hot drinks while in swimwear.