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A Hotel Room of One’s Own
Girls only!
According to Jezebel, there’s “a new trend of hotels creating rooms that are just for women.” Oh Lord, why?! A hotel room designed to appeal to women apparently contains ”fresh flowers, women’s magazines and size-appropriate slippers and robes and female staff members who are escorts at check-in.” At Vancouver’s Georgian Court Hotel, “the rooms are equipped with flat irons, yoga mats and beauty products.”
Please, if I’m escaping to a hotel, it’s not to masturbate by myself after an intense few minutes in downward dog. It’s to have sex with a man on sheets I don’t have to wash.
Now, before anyone decides to leave a comment admonishing me for my sluttery (again), most of the sex I’ve had in hotel rooms was during my now-defunct marriage. I’m pretty sure my daughter was conceived in a hotel room in London. But I do find hotel rooms to be the perfect location for a one-night stand. I want to see what’s in your pants, not in your pantry.
I love hotels. LOVE them. I don’t care if you’re talking about The Days Inn or The Four Seasons. I think there’s nothing greater than the feel of those squishy hotel pillows, those somehow-magically-softer-than-mine sheets — and, in very fine hotels — the billowy, satiny down comforters. I don’t mind a pastel-y hotel room. I’ve stayed at a few frilly, shabby chic B&Bs in my day. But the type of hotel room I love most looks more like a conference room with a bed in it. A sturdy, plain, wooden desk, a bar, two bedside tables. Lots of brown. Simple. Masculine.
I don’t see how this feminization of the hotel room is any different than the annoying pink Lego set and the pink aisles in Target and the “girls are dumb” t-shirts and everything else that has been marketed to women in the last few years. Why are fresh-cut flowers a women-only thing? What human being doesn’t like a nice bouquet? And who wants to throw a used condom in a wastebasket that looks like this?
No, thanks.
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6 Comments
Jacquetta Szathmari commented on Jan 30 12 at 2:42 pmHilarious. Personally, I like a hotel room that looks sexy and not like it was littered with the innards of my little ponies.
carolyncastiglia commented on Jan 30 12 at 3:03 pmHahahahahaha…
CW commented on Jan 30 12 at 3:26 pmWomen don’t have to travel for work? Personally, if I’m having to go on a business trip and be away from home, I’d much rather stay in a hotel that’s designed with female tastes in mind rather than the typical business hotel. It also sounds like a great place to stay on a girls’ weekend (given that my friends are mostly fellow 30something married moms, our days of hitting the Vegas Strip on a GW are long over).
Meagan commented on Jan 30 12 at 4:03 pmWhy? Because there’s a demand, apparently. It’s a very simple equation, and business owners have obligation to challenge gender norms if stereotypes are making them a profit. Personally I’d prefer beach tones and lots of light in a hotel room to lots of pink and girlie mags, but then, I don’t do much traveling, so why would they care?
Brigette commented on Jan 30 12 at 11:46 pm‘I want to see what’s in your pants, not in your pantry’
I howled with laughter! good on you Caroline.
Linda, T.O.O. commented on Jan 31 12 at 2:28 am“Please, if I’m escaping to a hotel, it’s not to masturbate by myself after an intense few minutes in downward dog. It’s to have sex with a man on sheets I don’t have to wash.” bahahahahahahaha!
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