Was wondering if boba/bubble tea, the Taiwanese cold sweetened tea drink with tapioca balls, is considered a girly drink? I've mostly seen a lot of young women have it in NY and CA, but I'm not sure if it's a female thing or not, since boba tea shops are not places I frequent. Any thoughts by those who do? Are the drinks popular with both sexes in Taiwan, and by young and old?
< I cannot fathom how a drink would be considered masculine or feminine.>
You can't? No apple-tinis in your neck of the woods, I guess. I'm not saying it's right - people ought to be able to drink whatever the hell they want - but you must recognize that certain drinks are seen as "girly." Case in point:
<So let's delegitimize it! >
I think about this a lot, and I've come to believe that there are plenty of people who strongly prefer dressing and drinking like a member of a recognizable category. Caitlin Jenner's Vanity Fair cover is a case in point. There's a reason she didn't wear a flannel shirt and a backwards baseball cap. Whereas I (a cisgender* straight* woman) walk around nearly every day of my life in jeans and Doc Martens.
*these retronyms are really piling up, aren't they? why, I remember a time when calling myself a woman would have been enough to indicate that I was straight and cisgender.
It's an interesting topic and one that's really come to the surface recently. I remember the day I realized I didn't have to have kids despite having it pounded into my head that That's What Women Do. I think it's neat that people are starting to care less about labels and more about the individual. We've got a long way to go but I think you're example is a great one. 20 years ago, people would've assumed you were cisgender and straight because what else would you be? Now, it's not the default.
Moral of the story: drink the damn bubble tea and garnish it with a glittery umbrella for pete's sake!
<but it makes no sense to me>
Making sense to you (or me) is different question, isn't it? In a parallel universe, a kilt may be a female gourmet, but as it is in our history, a kilt was a male gourmet in Scotland.
Look, the original poster basically asked if a kilt is a female gourmet, and instead of answering that question, you went in a different direction of "It does not matter."
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZPWa...>
Ha ha ha. Your video. That actually happened to me once. A bartender who I know very well won't stop teasing me about a drink I ordered. It wasn't a tini though.
<Consider a kilt. >
You are actually playing exactly into the concept. A kilt is considered a male garment. A woman won't be expected to dress in a kilt. So while you have find an exception among skirt, you actually admit that there are male vs female garments.
<I cannot fathom how a drink would be considered masculine or feminine.>
Of course, there are. It is a matter of social construct. I think you are trying to answer a political question of "Should there a male vs female drink?" This is different than "Is there a male vs female drink?"
You can argue if a kilt should be a male garment, but the fact is that it was a male garment.
My penis and I have been enjoying boba for close to 20 years.
From what I've observed it's popular among both men and women in Taiwan. Although the tea shops sell a variety of drinks (milk tea, bubble tea, fruit tea, fruit juices), so it's a bit hard to see who is drinking what. I live near a police college, and the two tea shops next to it are always crammed with young men with very short hair.
I see bubble tea shops (which are more often than not cold drink/dessert/snack shops elsewhere) in Hong Kong and Taiwan filled with both male and female. It's more of a young people hangout place.
I enjoy milk tea, fruit juices and other drinks, but I don't care for the bubbles themselves. These stores have existed in the big Asian metropolis' for some time, and well before the boba-explosion.
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