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NEWS
PHILLIP WYATT
A&F Staff Writer
pwyatt@unca.edu
Owners Jared Rutledge and
Jacob Owens of Waking Life
Espresso in West Asheville are
under attack after it was re
vealed they published podcasts,
a blog and a Twitter account
expressing misogynist and sex
ist viewpoints concerning their
sexual conquests in Asheville.
The news first broke on Ashe-
villeBlog.com from an anony
mous source, including screen
caps of the offending Twitter
account and blog, as well as re
cordings of their podcasts.
Under the pseudonym “Ho
listic Game,” both men pub
lished graphic descriptions of
consensual and nonconsensual
sex acts.
“Putting the sweet D in the
tender V since 2013” is the title
used for their online blog.
Other tweets included a year
ly count of sexual encounters
with women.
Local businesses began pull
ing Waking Life’s iced coffee
from shelves Sunday, less than
24 hours after the blog’s cre
ators were revealed.
At French Broad Food Co-
Op, four male staff members
made a unanimous decision
to remove Waking Life prod
ucts from shelves before board
members came to their own
conclusion'. General Manager
Bobby Sullivan said.
“I listened to part of a pod
cast. They were talking about
women within the age group of
-my four daughters,” Sullivan
said. “As a man, it’s alarming
to me there’s men out there pro
moting this type of behavior.”
Two of Sullivan’s daughters
are currently applying for jobs
and potentially could have se
cured employment at Waking
Protesters gather outside
Life, he said.
In order to sell the remaining
Waking Life iced coffees from
their store. Orbit D'VD in West
Asheville donated $50 to Our-
Voice for every $4 spent on a
bottle, Marc McCloud said, Or
bit general manager.
Our'Vbice provides coun
seling services to individuals
affected by sexual abuse ^nd
assault.
After selling out. Orbit ap
proached West 'Village Market
for more bottles to sale. The
store raised around $750 for
OurVoice.
Other businesses are fol
lowing suit, donating at least
ten percent of their sales from
Monday or the entire week to
Photo by Phillip Wyatt
of Waking Life Espresso.
Photo by Phillip Wyatt
ObrVoice, including Battle-
cat Coffee Bar, Patton Avenue
Pet Company, Business 420
Screenprinting and Harvest Re
cords, McCloud said.
“I have a professional rela
tionship with these guys,” he
said. “I was just shocked they
would flush a good bu.siness
away.”
McCloud has a 21-year-old
daughter, and he said the social
media posts hit close to home
for him.
In a statement posted on
Facebook, Jay Weatherly and
Kim Hunt of High Five Coffee
said they are donating all profits
from sales this week of a special
beverage, the Barista’s Choice,
to OurVoice.
Some patrons of High Five
have agreed to match total sales
of the drink!
“We are appalled by Jared
and Jacob’s dehumanization,
violence, and lack of respect
for women, even further their
general reflections on humanity
and definitions of what it means
to ‘be a man’,” the statement
from High Five said. “There is
no place for this in our, or any
community, and only serves to
perpetuate a rape culture.”
With signs in tow, protesters
have lined up outside of Waking
Life since news broke Saturday
of the blog and podcasts. Most
of the participants are members
of West Asheville Exchange,
a Facebook group created by
Mikki Fox.
“This isn’t a witch hunt. We
don’t have our pitchforks out,”
Fox said. “I was so incensed
when I read what they had said
that 1 immediately grabbed
some signs and my kids and
came up here.”
Fox did not anticipate such
a huge community outcry, she
said.
“I didn’t expect all their stuff
to be pulled,” Fox said. “This
has really brought a lot of peo
ple together.”
Asheville resident Simeon
Jogswell. who started pror
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