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There are no happy endings in Eastern Europe.
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Kek.
I also love how they are sidestepping the obvious issue of race and how this is a privileged white American using her inherent privilege for profit and to threaten the livelihoods of the other, non-white bar owners in the area, and are trying to make her some sort of a trailblazer for women in general or something.
Man, I really like Asians, but they should tone down the white worship for a moment, for five seconds at least please, because shit like this is just embarrassing.
From ‘Coyote Ugly on steroids’ bartending to ‘making space for women’
Beckaly Franks of Hong Kong bars The Pontiac, Artifact, Call Me Al and Ponty Café is the first woman to be voted Bartenders’ Bartender at the Asia’s 50 Best Bars awards. She talks about her road to success.
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She may have started as a little girl hanging out in her parents’ bar in Portland, Oregon, in the United States, but she grew up to become an award-winning bartender who moved to Hong Kong to open her own venue at the age of just 30.
And in the eight years since then, Beckaly Franks has become a true powerhouse in the city’s food and drink industry – a position cemented this month when she officially became the first woman to be named the Bartenders’ Bartender, the only peer-voted category in the Asia’s 50 Best Bars awards.
Lmao. You just know, you literally just know that all of this "success" was given to this random bitch just because she's a stereotypically-looking white woman that moved to an Asian city. She'd probably be a mediocre bartender at best at home, but in Hong Kong, all she needs is being a white woman to have hordes of white worshippers regularly come to her bar, fully convinced that frequenting a bar owned by a white woman is "cool" and "modern."Franks is grateful for the opportunity to do what she loves and for the recognition bestowed upon her by the community – and true to form, she says she does not have any impostor syndrome about winning the award, “because I earned it”.
I also love how they are sidestepping the obvious issue of race and how this is a privileged white American using her inherent privilege for profit and to threaten the livelihoods of the other, non-white bar owners in the area, and are trying to make her some sort of a trailblazer for women in general or something.
“I earned my stripes there and won a bartending competition in New Zealand,” says Franks. “I was part of a team, though I was still one of the first females ever to win a global competition.”
"OMG, yass Queen. You built a place for all yass Queens to yass Queen together, OMG, OMG, that's so yass Queen Queen."Two months thereafter, aged 30 and in a new city, she opened The Pontiac – an elevated, female-centric dive bar inspired by the rock ’n’ roll vibe of Portland’s Dixie Tavern. For eight years and counting, the bar has stood strong on the slopes of Old Bailey Street, in Central.
As for being a woman in a male-dominated industry, Franks speaks only from her own experience: “I don’t know how it feels to be anything other than a female bartender.
"Nothing is handed to you", bitch, compare yourself with the bartenders who don't have the privilege of being white in white-worshipper-land, then talk about being freely handed something.“It’s getting passé to be like, ‘How does it feel to be a woman in the industry?’ It’s kind of the same as being a woman anywhere, doing anything, ever. Nothing is handed to you – that’s for sure.”
“I’ve worked [hard] for all the opportunities that I have, and I do my absolute best to make sure that other people have opportunities based on what I’ve created,” she says.
Equality is difficult (or perhaps impossible) to achieve – yet, Franks remains persistent that it is worth fighting for.
“I’m not sure if it will ever feel equal or the same in my lifetime, but I’m an advocate for making space for women. I’m passionate about it, and if I’m here to do anything, I hope it’s that.
Jfl, they are really going all out to pretend that this chick is some kind of a fighter for equality and to not mention the absolutely obvious point, that is the racial privilege this chick has in Hong Kong.“It’s still a climb for women in everything, everywhere. Things are getting better, but I like to say that the fight is forever – I don’t mean that in an aggro way, I just mean that we have to keep chipping away at old blocks and keep supporting each other.
Great, you're finally shutting up.Franks concludes: “I didn’t set out on a mission to be the spokesperson for equality or the righteous feminist that I am. I’m just that way. I may come across as abrasive, but as long as I’m offered an opportunity to use my voice, I’m going to use it.”
Man, I really like Asians, but they should tone down the white worship for a moment, for five seconds at least please, because shit like this is just embarrassing.