“If you show your breasts you have a free drink”: protests against the sexist poster in the Milan bar

If the clients show their breasts, they get free chupiti, also according to the size of the bra (only one for those who have the first, two for the second and so on until the fifth, so “everyone’s applause” is also promised .): it happens in The Social Chupiteria, a Milanese club in viale Bligny, where a poster has been exposed that tries in vain to mask the sexist trick with the definition “games for our beautiful and very nice clients”.

With the excuse that “a day without a smile is a day wasted” -as it is said at the end of the statement- women are invited, and this is a student area, given the proximity to Bocconi University, to “launch the bra behind the counter “for four drinks, while those who agree to” take the bartender home “get a month of free drinks. And there is a very explicit warning for anyone who does not want to play the game: “If you do the least, remember that others have it like you and go f …”.

Yesterday morning Luca Gibillini, a former center-left councilor who works in the municipality and is a member of the staff of Mayor Beppe Sala, posted the photo of the poster on Facebook, with the comment: “Ok Houston, we have a problem.” Words to which Gibillini, joined by Republic, explains that he has “nothing to add”. The poster really speaks for itself and is awakening hundreds of outraged comments, which forced the club’s managers to close the Facebook page, which has disappeared from the web for a few hours. “So you wonder how and where people like the Bianchi brothers feed their own subculture” someone writes, referring to the murder of Willy Duarte Montero in Colleferro, while others limit themselves to defining the Chupiteria trick as “a shame” and ” Very bad”. taste “. And also the comment of the councilor for urban planning Pierfrancesco Maran:” With tables outside, etc. we have set ourselves the goal of saving the Milanese clubs and our sociability. Objectively, not everyone deserves to be saved. “

The owner of the Chupiteria, Emanuele Castoro, defends himself claiming that “that poster was just a joke and what it says has never been put into practice. Those who know us have never taken it seriously,” they laughed. even girls. “And as for the content of the message, vulgar and offensive regardless of whether it is serious or joking, the manager responds that” in the last period we have realized that there is a greater sensitivity on the subject and therefore the poster has been removed. We will reopen the Facebook page and explain it to customers. We have nothing to hide. “