Oh, well I haven’t eaten at Chili’s in about 20 years, but I was just talking about going again last week.
Guess I’m not going to do that…
I’d much rather eat at Chotchkie’s. More flair.
I just realized this is Mike Judge himself
If I’ve told you once I’ve told you 37 times…
At $60 to $70 for 2 people to eat out? Fuck that.
Texas Roadhouse family meals (takeout only tho) is where it’s at. Near me it’s $60 for 4 steaks (28oz total), 2 1lb sides, about a dozen rolls, salad. Or $50 for the same but with 24 chicken tendies instead of steak.
Just did this recently, would recommend.
Gotta agree. You can get so much food there for a reasonable amount of money.
When a person’s comfort is on display we all get to see what decade they are still living in.
My expectation of “edible food” doesn’t align with what Chili’s offers, which is why I don’t go there. Everyone has their beliefs, I suppose.
Too easy to boycott.
So easy, I’ve been accidentally boycotting them for decades.
Based on this thread, it sounds like people with enough brainpower to know what pronouns are don’t eat there anyway, so this might actually make Chile’s money.
Unfortunately, you might actually be right.
Exactly what kind of sex is going on at Chili’s? Anything I should know?
Is it getting into the food???
Judging by the restaurant staff I’ve known, a lot. Those people fuck more than porn stars.
Line cooks are way uglier than porn stars.
I guess this is how I learn that Chili’s is actually still in business
a trans man who was assigned female at birth
Isn’t that what “trans man” means?
They gotta dumb it down for people, it’s a good thing for informing.
If you just say “trans man” at a bunch of people, a significant portion of them will think you mean “a man who has decided they are trans and wants to be a woman”. Because recognizing the gender someone identifies as is catering to their delusion or whatever bigots tell themselves to get by.
Before all the recent hullabaloo in recent years, I couldn’t remember which meant which way - because I could give two fucks - just let them be who they are.
Now I’ve had to learn a lot (which I don’t resent learning) so I can help stand up for their rights, and it’s really easy to remember. But it’s sort of like “biweekly” or “semiweekly” before you actually pay attention - both of those terms mean both something that happens twice per week or once every other week (although I tihnk biweekly more strongly implies twice per week, but it can absolutely be used for both).
A lot of people are still just not familiar with the terminology surrounding all things trans.
If you just say “trans man” many of them don’t go into a weird mental gymnastics session to justify their prejudice, they just go “which one was that again?”.
I’ve been there myself a few years ago and since I learned have explained it to several people who couldn’t be further from bigots, they were just not in much personal contact with trans people.
Sorry I didn’t mean to say that anyone who doesn’t know the difference is a bigot, I meant to say that the general public’s lack of awareness about what means what is due to bigots intentionally using the wrong gender or terminology any chance they get. They’re muddying the waters.
No need to apologize, and sorry that I apparently made you think an apology was required.
I wanted to build on and expand your point, not contradict it.
I suppose that’s true that even people who aren’t necessarily bigots can struggle to understand what being trans is. My boomer parents aren’t transphobic, but they do struggle with the concept that when a person realizes they’re trans it retroactively means that they were always the gender they currently go by, even if they themselves didn’t know it at the time. I got into an argument with my dad when he kept calling the child of someone he knew “he” when talking about her in the past before she came out as trans. I tried to explain that, no, she was a she then as well, but didn’t know it herself and presented as a he, but he just didn’t get it.
In the defense of your father that could also be down to how his brain categorizes things. Just as an example for myself, the actor Elliot Page technically has two different “entries” in my brain which if I could verbalize would be something along the lines of Ellen Page = Dead override Elliot Page = Alive, why is my brain doing it like that? Who knows, it’s probably the autism, but it does keep me from dead naming him.
I have a girlfriend who is trans and I knew her in the “before time” before she transitioned. When she talks about when she was a kid she refers to herself as “when I was a little girl”.
She was always a girl.
I guess they could be intersex? But mostly probably just to make the article accessable to boomers which I think is a fine thing to do.
And it’s okay if they ain’t intersex, because havin’ a low lerbido or being uh-sexual ain’t no big deal, neither.
/jk
Why would a massively corporate chain have personal values and lifestyles? Just sell your shitty burgers.
Fuck chilis and fuck chic fil a, I have never ordered either and will never order either
It’s entirely possible the employees sucked, but for Chili’s to fire them the way they did is nuts. The fact that there’s a pattern means there’s gonna be some fat paychecks going around.
I’ll continue my tradition of not eating at Chili’s in support.
The casual dining chain, which is owned by publicly traded Brinker International, professes to believe in “a culture of belonging,” telling job applicants that it welcomes “those of all genders, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities, religions, age and backgrounds.”
“We celebrate these differences through a culture of belonging where individual strengths and stories are respected and valued,” ChilisJobs.com asserts. “We’re proud to be a community-oriented meeting place and want everyone to feel welcome at Chili’s.”
I don’t understand the utility of proclaiming your company to be a bastion for the people you clearly hate. Why entice them to become employees just to fire them? And in firing them, receive a tidal wave of bad press and probable lawsuits? 🤷
Maybe there’s more to the story than the article is telling us.
It’s a kind of rainbow washing. Under Capitalism, queer money is still money, so they’ll happily take that while pushing us under the bus at every meaningful opportunity.
I guess I’ll continue to never patronize a Chili’s. Wtfuck is “Chili’s” any way? Is it someone’s nickname? Do they have a chili that owns things?
Imagine if there was a place that served shit for food. But then, blend in a bit of cumin, some smoked paprika, chile powder, and corn in with the shit.
Thats a chiles.
OK, so what’s Chili’s?
No, you’re confused. Chili owns you, whether you’re an employee or customer. You belong to them. Chili’s. Eat fresh
Much like how Nigerian Prince emails use bad grammar and spelling to filter out people with half a brain, they’re using the stupid name as a way to filter out folks who won’t pay $30/ea to eat garbage in a room that smells like a dirty rag.
Oh come on! It’s not ‘personal values’ or 'lifestyle values’. They are just following current medical standards for what should be done against body dysphoria.
A medical decision backed by current science.
personal values
Meaning you’re not a fundamentalist extremist christofascist. That is a compliment, actually, even though they don’t know it
Lifestyle
Yes, I too would do multiple very expensive and very painful operations and god knows how many therapy sessions for fun, because that’s my style, baby!
I’ve always hated the “lifestyle” argument.
Existing isn’t a fucking lifestyle.
Did they think they could get away with this. Firing someone because of their personal life. crazy.
They haven’t yet not gotten away with it. I don’t maintain much optimism that they won’t.
I mean man. It would be another major fall in human rights and ignoring at least the principles of the constitution. I mean they can debate all day when it comes to commons spaces but what people do in their private lives is like main part of being free.
This america, not some freedom based utopia. This country is based on prison and pain
I always see stories like this and I think to myself I can’t even boycott them because I wasn’t eating there already. Not that I can really afford to eat out anywhere though…
