The owners of a café in Afflecks Palace have hit back after a Labour councillor branded it ‘disgusting’. Urmston councillor Joanne Harding said that Animaid Café made her ‘fresh crawl [sic]’ in a tweet.
The venue takes up Japanese ‘maid café’ culture, where staff are dressed in anime-style maid’s uniforms, often seen in Manga cartoons. “What fresh hell is this in Manchester?” Harding said in the tweet “A ‘maid cafe’ - No touching or asking to touch the maids. We have a gender based violence strategy and ask ‘is this ok?’ - this makes my fresh [sic] crawl.”
Many others weighed in as one follower branded the café ‘Hooters for incels’, to which Harding replied ‘it’s disgusting’. She added ‘If you’ve got to have a sign up saying don’t touch the maids, there might be an issue. Women dressing in skimpy clothes, acting subserviently - what’s not to love’, followed by a facepalm emoji.
