Because ONLY the White Man Can | <strong>The Butler's Cafe</strong>

Butler%27sCafe.jpg Hey ladies! Imagine this...One day you feel that your Japanese husband/boyfriend isn't good-looking enough, or suave enough... so you call your girlfriend to talk about it and she tells you to meet her at this small cafe to drink some tea...and maybe even have a piece of cake while you're at it. You arrive, and before you know it, this dashing white man with incredible charm and gentleman-ly demeanour addresses you as "princess" and sits you down in a seat by the window so that the sunlight will shine, as he says, on your pretty face. In the next couple of hours, he brings you and your girlfriend more tea and desserts on command (whenever you ring your slave bell) and compliments you at every turn...even if you beckon for him every two minutes just to remind yourself that this royal treatment you're receiving isn't a fairytale.

Of course, this doesn't have to be a fairytale.

If you live in Japan, just head to THE BUTLER'S CAFE and everyday you can have (supposedly) good-looking and charming white men -- yeah, you read that correctly -- raise your self-esteem and do all kinds of wonders your husband/boyfriend can't do...as long as you pay your bill when you leave...and don't forget your glass slipper (heh heh).

The mastermind behind The Butler's Cafe interviewed 200 Japanese women and all claimed they wanted "a cafe where the waiters were male, good looking, would treat them nice and most importantly, were Western." A regular customer of the cafe claims that "all the butlers are very cute, cheerful and sweet and, above all, the fact that they're foreigners helps us to escape from reality."

Because, supposedly, only the white man can. We have a word for women like that...delusional.

More: via 8asians | AFP | JapanProbe | Thanks Kev! | Watch CNN's video coverage of The Butler Cafe under the cut

The Butler's Cafe

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Do the white servers speak Japanese to the customers?

No, they speak english to them. The women say it's a bonus that the women get to learn a little bit of english while they're there.

thats hilarious... but hey... you can't blame them for wanting to be treated like the most important person in the room!

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