I'm reading "The world’s coolest hotels want to tell you a story/The latest design-driven hotels aim to immerse guests in a story or social movement, or transport them to another time" (WaPo).
That link on "feminist-inflected" goes to a 2020 Architectural Digest article about the hotel, where it says, "The larger-than-life homage to Justice Ginsburg has been constructed using 20,000 hand-painted tampons, arranged on a pegboard to create a pointillist portrait (complete with the justice’s signature lace collar and her 'Notorious' moniker). A 20-foot-long curving wall in the hotel’s restaurant evokes a glittering gown, adorned with 12,000 protest buttons from decades of feminist marches and events.... And a hanging installation of painted folding chairs honors Chisholm’s famous advice: 'If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.'"
I looked at Hotel Zena's website. It costs about $400 a night to stay there. I was sad to see that some of the rooms had a "king" bed. That's so wrong. I want to be drenched in activism when battling insomnia at the feminist hotel. They need to curate every detail or it's insufficiently immersive. Also what's with bringing your own folding chair? I thought we were kicking the fucking door down?
Posts
56 comments:
Putting the "hag" in hagiography.
I mis-read the term and thought it said the Hotel Zena was "feminist-infected." Then I read about the artwork comprised of 20,000 tampons and sincerely hoped that they were fresh out of the wrapper.
homage to Justice Ginsburg has been constructed using 20,000 hand-painted tampons
I know I’m not the first to observe this, but for people who want to be treated as more than their reproductive parts, they are awfully obsessed with their reproductive parts.
Why is every group that bills itself as ”radical” so boring and predictable?
The tampon portrait would have been of a younger Ginsburg.
for people who want to be treated as more than their reproductive parts, they are awfully obsessed with their reproductive parts.
It puts me in mind of when teenage girls discover they're attractive and start wearing short shirts and belly shirts, while claiming in high dudgeon that they're dressing for themselves and shouldn't be subject to "the male gaze."
Kids. No one believes you. And if you believe you, your mind definitely hasn't caught up to your body.
Neither hotel in that excerpt sounds cool at all. Then again I never choose travel lodging on the basis of the rooftop band (prefer none thanks) or the lobby art. Although this lobby “art” might lead me to reject a hotel based on the boneheaded idea of displaying such dreck.
Also: does this mean we've reached peak First World?
What an inaccurate painting. Where are her ram horns and tentacles?
I think it’s great that some hotels are being designed to a recognizable icon or theme. It makes the experience more memorable and interesting. 20,000 tampons wouldn’t call out to me for a visit or stay, but to each her own.
I'm thinking The Atlantic would love it there.
Today we have activist hotels all across America. We used to call them 'universities'.
As for RBG's tampon saturated (sorry) imagery, the fact that Architectural Digest saw fit to do an article featuring this tells you more about how far AD has fallen than how ridiculous activist art can be.
Tampons? Ginsberg?
That's so last century!
Believers want to be with other believers, not with unbelievers.
They should burn that King bed.
They should be offering guests a Queen or an upgrade to a Queen Latifa. Double is no good, too binary. Same with Twin size.
Dirty tampons?? figures.
how long before these two hotels go broke?
How much did they lose last year?
And: aren't menstruating women supposed to use cups now? For the environment, after all. Or "free bleed" like that runner?
I suppose Breezy has a point; if your hotel is integral to your travel experience, I guess it could be interesting to stay in a hotel that either comports with your personal values-slash-bugaboos or, if you're a contrarian, specifically doesn't.
Althouse jests. With a rapier gilly suited as a pen.
That photo of the hotel bar at the top of the link looks garish.
Should be a single bed.
“They should burn that King bed.”
Or keep it down in the lobby—for guests who wish to carry it around town on their back.
Mmmmmmmmmm Xena Warrior Princess
Do the fashionable travelers who stay at these hotels ever feel like chumps? Coming up with a pandering gimmick is so much easier than establishing a reputation for quality and comfort.
I used to travel quite a bit, and never considered that my hotel should have a narrative. The Bangkok room decorated in dazzle camo certainly wouldn't be my first choice.
Lol, Meade. Good callback.
That place could only exist in DC. No one else is going to book a business trip in a feminist hotel. Definitely not a girls' weekend.
As I understand it, the artiste composed the portrait of lightly rinsed, recycled tampons in keeping with the hotel's sustainability theme. This portrait is located in the hotel dining room immediately above the buffet line entrance point which is clearly marked by a paper machete bust of Kamama Harris, done entirely in an edgy recycled toilet paper motif and enclosed in a glass case to both protect it from damage by various environmental protest groups and to keep the flies at bay. Unfortunately, the hotel nixed the other menstruation product artwork which was to be interpreted by the artiste using a combination of mini and maxi pads donated by trans women, the rejection being based on those pads having arrived in a pristine, seemingly unused condition, hence, the artwork could have been interpreted as a transphobic slur by some hotel guests. I found it particularly interesting that the hotel desk hands out free sleeping pills to counter the "woke" atmosphere that permeates the hotel and that could lead to guest insomnia. I don't think there is any question that the Eaton is going to draw business from the Trump International and other high-end DC hotels.
"And the city’s feminist-inflected Hotel Zena, where you will encounter a huge portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made of tampons."
Why not fetuses?
"I was sad to see that some of the rooms had a "king" bed. That's so wrong."
'Empress,' or 'Goddess' would suffice.
I notice they have a security camera dangling right next to the Notorious 'Tempera 'N Tampax' study. And right next to this.... a pool table ! With..... balls !!
And in the lobby: "a two-channel video installation at the Eaton that splices found footage and newly shot scenes into a continuously updated newscast featuring iconic figures such as Maya Angelou and Colin Kaepernick...."
'Iconic'. 'The World's Coolest Hotels....' OK, then.
you will encounter a huge portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made of tampons
=================================
I would go to see Justice Ruth is in Zena: Warrior Princess costume!!!
under the tenets of Modern Feminism..
REAL WOMEN HAVE PENISES!
fronthole people are JUST for breeding..
As EVERY GOOD MODERN FEMINIST KNOWS; Men Suck! and so do frontholes..
REAL WOMEN HAVE PENISES!
please Try to stay current
How many Michelin Stars does this place have?
"Feminist inflected?" The begged-for correction is just too obvious.
I think I rather be smart and stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
Lol!
It's not a "king" bed; it's a "King" bed! An M.L. King Jr. bed!
Smaller-sized beds are Douglass beds, Garvey beds and Malcolm beds.
It will be seized to house illegals with our taxes soon enough, and we're gonna be paying a lot more than $400 a night for those rooms. They may have to cut costs by letting those fertile flies lay their eggs on Ginzberg's portrait, a home run for Mr. Irony.
And nobody's aborting an anchor baby.
“I was sad to see that some of the rooms had a "king" bed. That's so wrong.”
What they need then is a good, feminist, equivalent. How about a “double lesbian” sized bed. A lot of plus sized lesbos. Not in Hollywood, of course. Ellen’s famous wife was anorexic. Maybe even a Lesbian sized bed.
That link on "feminist-inflected" goes to a 2020 Architectural Digest article about the hotel, where it says, "The larger-than-life homage to Justice Ginsburg has been constructed using 20,000 hand-painted tampons, arranged on a pegboard to create a pointillist portrait (complete with the justice’s signature lace collar and her 'Notorious' moniker).
Whoever made this "art" hates women and wants to make them look stupid.
A Ginsberg statue made of tampons.
How appropriate. What about another one made of toliet paper and stale bagels?
I looked at Hotel Zena's website. It costs about $400 a night to stay there. I was sad to see that some of the rooms had a "king" bed. That's so wrong. I want to be drenched in activism when battling insomnia at the feminist hotel. They need to curate every detail or it's insufficiently immersive.
Men designed and founded the Feminist movement. Men selected the "leaders" of the movement.
Feminism:
1. Tell women to work as hard as men during the day.
2. Go have sex with the hottest guy you can find at night with no commitment.
3. Make sure that contraception and abortion are the most important issues to you.
Rinse and repeat until you turn 40 and then you need to go buy some cats.
The men that did this knew that they would only really catch the foolish and self absorbed. They did not have women's best interests in mind.
Is there a recreation of a Senate Hearing room where you can fuck your partner in the ass?
Asking for a friend...
Can't think of anything more boring.
If the U.S. of A. was going to get an enema, that sounds like the place the nozzle would be inserted.
Coolest? How about Lamest Hotels? All that much earnestness is 180° from cool.
That is a surprisingly good likeness of Ginsburg. I wouldn't call it bad art. It's interesting how artists can use ordinary things to create their art. Still, I wouldn't want that stern Ginsburg gaze staring at me while I drank my Gin and tonic.
20,000 tampons wouldn’t call out to me for a visit or stay, but to each her own.
And that - right there - is the difference between the right and the left.
Want to do a leftist hotel theme? Knock yourself out. I simply won't patronize your establishment.
Should there be a similar theme by conservatives? The left would be pulling out all the stops to shut it down.
Look no further than the hubbub about some kicker who was invited to give a speech.
Can the left ignore him - even when they weren't his audience? Nope. He must be thrown off the team and cast out.
There is no coexisting with them because they won't allow it.
I wonder what would happen if a rural biker bar erected a giant image of RBG made out of tampons and a head of Kamala Harris made out of toilet paper.
This is the new face of Feminism.
This is the pendulum swinging back. The most vociferous defenders of civilization will be women because they have the most to lose.
Have fun leftists.
You dug this hole. Nobody is going to feel bad when you are buried in it.
If I am looking to stay in a hotel dedicated to a historical figure, I would rather stay at the Thomas Jefferson in Richmond, but that's just me.
Out: 'King' bed. In: 'Yassss! Slay Queen!' bed.
I always thought Justice Ginsburg was someone to respect, even if her legal interpretations were often off base. Portraying her, after her death, in an image made of tampons is what I would have imagined her most virulent critics to have done to mock her.
What, the TP bust wasn’t parody? Holy crap these people are whack.
Eaton Y
".....and what would madam prefer for sleeping arrangements, please? We have rooms with two full-sized beds, rooms with a Queen bed and fold-out sofa, and several suites with Lizzo beds"
Clyde said...
If the U.S. of A. was going to get an enema, that sounds like the place the nozzle would be inserted.
=================
with enema you get effluvium > have you found a depository for it = is it even possible?
Is there a Trump hotel nearby for the rest of us?
As ShoeOnHead once said: "Keep your clots, clumps and strings to yourself."
Narayanan:
I would go to see Justice Ruth is in Zena: Warrior Princess costume!!!
It's not nice to induce the taste of bile.
Book your honeymoon at the luxurious Chairman Enver Hoxha suite!
Post a Comment