There's a story floating around about Jordan Gleason, an Indianapolis brewery owner who threw out and banned a customer after he made sexist comments to female employees. What did this customer say, you ask?  Did he call the women "Honey" or "Sweet Cheeks"? Did he compliment a woman on her fresh-from-Spring-Break tan in a way that was taken out of context? No. This dude said things like "I like looking at your t*ts while you wash dishes."

You read that right.  Those words in that order came out of a person's mouth.

This customer attempted to come back to the bar twice after being removed, and was refused service. So, like any douche-nozzle who thinks a business can't possibly survive without his money and patronage, he demanded to speak to the manager. He tried to relate "man-to-man" with the brewery owner, saying "what I said would have been okay 20 years ago," and insinuated that women today are too sensitive.

We're not sensitive, a$$hole.  We're fed up.

You see, 20 years ago, when it "would have been 'okay'" to say those things, it still wouldn't have been okay.  As more and more women joined the work force and had to play in the boys' club, you were, as a woman, expected to have a tougher skin than your male counterparts. Any slip, any crack in the veneer and it was "well what do you expect from a woman?" or "Must be that time of the month." The idea was to laugh off sexist comments and harassment as just part of the job, otherwise risk being seen as weak or "sensitive" (too much so for "this business," I'm afraid).  Women put their heads down and bulldozed through comments and inappropriate gropes, hoping to one day take off the armor and be seen as equals in fields we have been a part of for longer than we've been given credit.

But here we are... so many years later, fielding the same sexist comments and being told we are asking for it based on our gender.  Rarely someone stands up to defend the harassed woman.  The men who defend are seen as defectors from the male pack. The women are seen as femi-Nazis who probably don't shave their legs and spell women with a "y".

It's 2016, for crying outside. Why is it such a problem to treat human beings like human beings?

As I read this customer attempting to defend his actions, I got more irritated and disgusted with every vitriolic word. Through it all, there's Jordan Gleason, digging in his heels, defending his employees, and politely asking the man to never set foot on his property again.  The story could have ended there, but it didn't.  Gleason posted this in his Facebook account of the interaction:

I want to acknowledge the struggle of every single woman who will read this. You deserve our respect and to be treated with decency. I want to stand up and say, I'm f*cking sick of this. To every dude out there, we need to f*cking combat this disease like its the god damned plague that it is. If one of your friends says something sh*tty about a woman, tell him to shut his f*cking mouth. Don't just laugh it off or ignore it. We need to listen when our sisters talk about this, and not just blame it on some bad apples. Not just say "not all dudes do that" or "well no one I know would ever do that." Nah man. This is an endemic cultural problem. If we want to start taking our status as gentlemen seriously we need to do more than just avoiding being a sexist pr*ck ourselves. We need to open our eyes and fight it everywhere we see it, because the only way this thing gets better is to start calling it out for what it is.

Jordan.  Thank you.  Thank you for bearing witness to inequality.  Thank you for standing up for your employees and giving them a place to work where they are respected. Thank you for sticking to your guns and not letting some misogynist with backward anachronistic views push you around and bend you to his whim because, as that caveman so eloquently pointed out, "we're men and they're females."

We need more Jordans in this world.

On a side note, Jordan, I don't drink beer.  Never acquired the taste.  But if I ever find myself in Indianapolis, you bet your ass I'm stopping at Black Acre Brewing Co., and ordering a pint just to say thank you.  Keep on keeping on, my friend.

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