Philly cook Nick DeSimone describes what it’s like to be a trans person working in a restaurant kitchen (via EaterPhilly)
In most restaurants, the stereotype is that men work in the back of the house and women work in the front of the house. The archetype of loud-mouth male chefs running the kitchen while polite, friendly women take orders and host is prevalent not only in movies and on TV but also in our preconceptions. But life doesn’t always imitate art. I am a cook. I’m also a masc-presenting AFAB nonbinary person. My presence on the line is often confusing for some people and sometimes, myself.
“In being validated as a masculine person, I am exposed to the things men in kitchens say only to each other.” The assumption is often that because I’m queer, I must think of and interact with women the way that some of the more misogynistic and transphobic men do, regardless of the fact that being queer and masculine doesn’t make me automatically objectify or disrespect the women in my life the way that misogynists and transphobes do. Because of this assumption, I am subjected to their so-called locker room talk.
After I moved on from there, I was working at a now-shuttered Center City restaurant. I walked in on a conversation of some of my male coworkers, including my male boss, rating the women that worked in the front of house, commenting on their physical appearance, and talking about what they would do to each woman in a way that made me feel sick. Stunned, I just stood there.
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