Reality TV star and radio host Abbie Chatfield says she’s “upset men around the world” after questioning why her boyfriend received a menu with prices on it while she received one without.
“So we’re at the boujee restaurant and my menu didn’t have prices on it,” Chatfield said in an Instagram story.
“I was like fuck – I’m the breadwinner. The patriarchy strikes again.”
It’s a – perhaps outdated – tradition in Italy for men to receive menus with prices and women to receive menus without any mention of the costs.
Although Chatfield’s audience is largely Australian, her social IG story captured the attention of Italian media.
“I have made the Italian news because I spoke about getting a menu without prices and now I have lots of angry Italian men in my DMs saying I need to ‘get some class’ because I dared say I should know how much I’m paying,”
“I have made the Italian news because I spoke about getting a menu without prices and now I have lots of angry Italian men in my DMs saying I need to ‘get some class’ because I dared say I should know how much I’m paying,” she explained in a recent Instagram Story.
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Chatfield explained in detail why she felt that it was “sexist” for her to receive a menu without prices and said her IG story was “upsetting men all over the world”
“Sorry that I wanted to know what price I’m paying for meals,” Abbie said to the camera in another Instagram story, before turning to her partner Konrad Bien and saying, “Konrad, we might get kicked out of Italy.”
Chatfield also took to her stories to post screenshots of DM’s from fans explaining that the particular menu she received was a “lady menu”.
“You are travelling in Italy, this is not Australia. Lady’s menu doesn’t have the price in al lot of places [sic], maybe not the ones you are used to dine at,” one of the DM’s read.
It continued, “You could ask for a menu with prices if you were worried it was going to be to expencive [sic]. Putting all this on a gender or man/female rights it’s just showing the world how ignorant and selfish you are!”
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