So, yesterday was International Women's Day

[George K]

A now-deleted tweet:

Whoopsie

The explanation:

[jon-nyc]

George that’s unfair unless you show their second tweet.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in So, yesterday was International Women's Day:

George that’s unfair unless you show their second tweet.

Isn't it showing up?

[jon-nyc]

Not the later apology. The second of the original tweets.

[Catseye3]

"We're sorry."

Yeah. We've come a long way, ain't we?

[Aqua Letifer]

Who else thinks BK was trolling?

[Catseye3]

I doubt they were trolling, but I'll never believe it wasn't intended as a joke. "Women in the kitchen" ha-ha. Get it?

[LuFins Dad]

I’m curious about the 2nd tweet.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in So, yesterday was International Women's Day:

Not the later apology. The second of the original tweets.

Where they say they deleted it because of abusive comments?

[A Former User]

@george-k

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/did-burger-king-uk-tweet-213142491.html

[jon-nyc]

The first tweet was just an attention-grabbing headline for their actual message about gender imbalance among chefs.

Anybody offended by it should have been ignored.

[George K]

@george-k said in So, yesterday was International Women's Day:

Link to Tweet

The second tweet is unavailable, as the original.

Here's their twitter page as of now, 8:45 AM CST:

[LuFins Dad]

Do Trans Women get access to the scholarship?

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in So, yesterday was International Women's Day:

The first tweet was just an attention-grabbing headline for their actual message about gender imbalance among chefs.

Yes. Their Instagram page did the same thing. Bold headline with a footnote at the bottom. Sadly the attention it got was the wrong kind.

[Copper]

I thought the purpose of the first tweet was obvious

It reminds me of stuff from the Virginia Slims era

No big deal

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in So, yesterday was International Women's Day:

Sadly the attention it got was the wrong kind.

I really don't think so. Ten bucks says they knew exactly what they were doing.

[Loki]

I can’t imagine the slogan Women Belong in the Kitchen survived a tweet unless they knew exactly what they were doing and depending on the initial reaction what the next steps would be.

Perhaps in our new social media world the only bad thing is not being part of conversations. Irrelevance is the worst enemy.

Freud said people are only motivated by two things, to seek pleasure or avoid pain. You need to knock people into one of those places or they do nothing- in this case don’t buy your burger.

[jon-nyc]

[Doctor Phibes]

Burger King.

Professional Chefs.

It's not women who should be mad, it's professional chefs.

[Catseye3]

Jon: "Anybody offended by it should have been ignored." Oh? Why is that?

George: "Sadly the attention it got was the wrong kind." No, the attention was the right kind. The goddamn message was the wrong kind.

Copper: "No big deal." Good to know, Copper. Probably a lot of people feel that way about golf, too.

Don't worry about it. People will get over it. A woman's anger only matters if there's a shotgun in her hand.