There is nothing absurd about a glory hole in a bathroom. Gloryholes exist, and they are placed in bathrooms.

Where is the joke then? The joke behind most of this is "hahaha it's funny that they're gonna lose business when everyone thinks it's a gay bar"

How is that wrong? Someone reading that could easily go "Wow there's a glory hole in the bathroom?"

Many of them make no reference to that situation at all.

Many of these reviews are not facetious. They are written like actual reviews, without humour.

Many of them read like actual reviews.

I'm not big Earl, and I don't support Big Earl's policy. I'm just pointing out the fact that you aren't allowed to tell lies about businesses, and many of these reviews are not "satire"

" if no reasonable person would assume it was actually true, which is definitely the case here."

It actually is illegal. If you claim a business is doing something it isn't, and it hurts the business, then you are liable for damages. And even if these are done for humour, a lot of them seem to be trying to create a false idea of what the restaurant is doing, which is illegal.

That story about Maya Angelou made her sound insufferable

There will always people who won't fit in, and they're gonna be pissed. *shrugs*. Any attempt to rope in the mentality of someone outcasted from society isn't going to work. Most people conform to society because they have to, in order to fit in. When you don't think there's any chance of fitting in, you aren't…

"Is Josh giving you shit because he's going through his post-adolescent idealistic phase?"

I think what people mean is that it has very little to do with systematic misogyny. This was a very personalized misogyny from someone who felt extremely small, and was using hatred to not feel small. It wasn't the casual hatred of someone who is surrounded by contemptful messages about women.

This trend of diagnosing society based on the most abnormal, deranged acts really needs to stop. It's just stupid. It's the "availability heuristic" poking it's mentally-challenged head into discussions of serious issues. People who look at an event like this and treat it like a real problem in society are the same…