Letters to the Editor
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Oh, please.
Speaking as a veteran of more business trips and hotel bar Romeos than I can count, this is pathetic. If you want a quiet drink and don't want to get hit on, bring a book to the bar. If someone is persistent, keep reading. If they seem like they'd be entertaining to talk with so long as their pants are on, keep talking... just making it clear that you're not available if you're not.
It's just not that freakin' complicated. If you can't deal with someone hitting on you, how are you going to deal with the real challenges of the work day tomorrow?
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Do not confuse marketing with the women's movement.
Calm down guys. The folks who dreamed this up are hotel execs who want to make a few extra bucks by capitalizing on fear. Seen that about three zillion times. Do not confuse this with a concerted effort by the women's movement to instigate some form of reverse discrimination or some mysterious cabal of networking businesswomen (most businesswomen know very well that they won't benefit much by networking exclusively with other women). To recap: not everything marketed towards women was dreamed up by women, and nothing dreamed up by or purchased by some women is indicative of the attitudes of women as a whole.
Personally I think the idea is noxious because it relies on the perpetuation of fear and facile assumptions about gender differences. It is further proof that there is a chicken-meet-egg relationship between gender ideology and corporate power.
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But I will cringe when they do this for men too
I can just picture the commercial. Ten fat guys throwning popcorn around while they drink beer and watch ESPN on a flatscreen. They'll be doing dopey retarded shit like not knowing how to turn on the oven to warm up a pizza. In one room on the side you'll see two assholes throwing darts at each other.
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re: Is this hotel owned by some Saudi family?
Bingo - this is what they do in Muslim countries - and in European countries with large Muslim populations.
hey ladies - don't want to be hit on: wear a burka - it's made to perserve modesty...
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DonaQ hit the nail on the head
It's marketing. It probably won't even succeed, and the minute the hotel fills up the floor will go co-ed anyway. Give that comment a star!
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MarkG,
No kidding! It's like trying to get a true nonsmoking room.
I hope no one falls for the gimmick.
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Men-only floors
We need men only floors, too, so we can network without any distractions from frosty businesswomen who want to regale us with tales of their victimhood.
Single sex floors would be great for everybody.
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"Curves" and "curvy" are catchphrases
for being fat.