EUGENE, Ore. (BN) — A cashier at a local co-op who identifies as gender fluid told Brimborion News on Tuesday that they are fed up with the obviously cishet male customers they have to deal with on a daily basis, who expect their groceries to be bagged, or even handed to them after purchase.
“I just feel like they have it coming,” cashier Mahalo Shatailo said. “I mean, they get everything else handed to them in this world. Why their eight dollars worth of groceries? They can bag it on their own. And, like, itemized receipt? How about itemizing all the psychic damage they’ve done to society?”
Shatailo, who identifies not only as gender fluid but gray-ace, also prefers to limit the things they say in conversation to other cishet males, keeping their initial greeting terse, yet professional.
“I never ask them, ‘How’s it going?’ I already know. Great! It’s going great. Like, they don’t have to worry about racial profiling, the wage gap, the glass ceiling, redlining, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, fighting the Patriarchy, you know. They are the Patriarchy!’
Benjamin Givens, a customer at the co-op where Shatailo works, said, “The girl with all the tattoos and facial piercings? Yeah, I know her. I always try to be friendly, smile a lot. It really seems like she hates my guts, though. I have no idea why. Maybe because I don’t tip? Are we doing that now? I have no idea. I will try to be nicer next time, though. See if that helps.”
