There is an ice cream shop that I used to visit frequently, up until yesterday. I thought that I was a respected customer whose business and generosity was appreciated. I was wrong.
From time to time (no more than once a month), I would bring in a sample of something I had made or something unusual that I had acquired. A handful of home-grown berries here, a small piece of cake there, etc. This was done primarily to get second opinions on creations of mine or to get rid of small amounts of things for which I had no use. At no point did anything I gave them exceed what a reasonable person would value at $2, and I never made any sort of romantic or sexual advance. Until yesterday, no one ever informed me that there was anything inappropriate about this.
So imagine my surprise when the police come when I am there and one of the employees tells me in their presence that I am no longer welcome on the premises because my gifts have made one of the employees uncomfortable. (The employees are all young girls; to my knowledge all are 18-20 years of age. I am 28 years of age, if that matters to anyone.)
As a libertarian, I will respect their private property rights and freedom of association. As such, I will never go there again or initiate the use of force against them. But I do not intend to take their ungraciousness lying down. I also consider this an instance of misandry and heterophobia, as I highly doubt that a woman or a gay man who behaved identically would have been treated this way. So what to do?
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to visit the Facebook and Google pages of this place and give them a 1-star review. You do not need to write anything in order to do this, and I ask that no slander or libel occur. Just help to pile on a multitude of 1-star reviews and sink their online reputation to the depths where it belongs. Let us show them how free markets deal with businesses that are mean to friendly, generous people.
https://www.facebook.com/MorgansDairyBar
https://plus.google.com/116174669041702142416/about?gl=us&hl=en
In the 36 hours since this happened, I have reflected that maybe cases like this partly explain why so many men are mean to women. Men try being nice, and simple politeness and generosity gets misinterpreted as some kind of harassment.