Denmark: Bella Sky must allow men in its women-only hotel rooms

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-04-26 23:16

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'If you're a single woman looking for a hotel room with free hair straighteners, yoga mats and no interruptions from unwelcome male guests, go somewhere else other than Denmark.

Easter High Court found Bella Sky Comwell Hotel guilty of gender discrimination and of violating the Equality Act on Friday, after the four-star hotel reserved 20 rooms on the 17th floor for women only.

The court's ruling means that the hotel from now on, starting tomorrow, must allow men to book into the rooms designed exclusively for women.

"The case is a trivial matter and it should never have been conducted," Allan Agerholm, the head of Bella Sky, told Berlingske.

"We never discriminated against anyone. It's too bad that we can't aim our products at a certain target group simply because of some rigid interpretation of the Danish Equality Act. It's sad and borderline ridiculous."'

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First thing men in hotels do is start knocking randomly on the doors of women booked into rooms alone just to see if they can "get some". It's a constant hazard for the solo female hotel guest. Yep.

But I wonder why the hotel mgt. thinks only women might be interested in things like yoga mats in their rooms. Don't men also do yoga? After all, men invented it, albeit 1,000s of years ago.

In any case, this is good news. Segregation starts slowly in most cases, then gets worse over time, until before you know it, it's everywhere. It's a "slippery slope".

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-04-27 13:52