A hotel in Denmark is refusing to remove its women-only floor despite being told by the country’s equality board that it is illegal. The Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen says its 17th Bella Donna floor will stay free of men despite pressure from the Equal Treatment Board to abandon the venture.
The board investigated following a newspaper article in which Arne Bang Mikkelsen, the hotel’s director, said the unique idea was created to make female guests feel safer. A reader issued a complaint, claiming the rule “was an expression of a highly provocative and demonising attitude towards men to exclude them from the women’s floor because some women feel unsafe around men”.
Speaking to DR News, Bang Mikkelsen said, “I thought it was funny when the case was sent to the Council six months ago and it gave us fantastic marketing around the world.
“I fail to see that this is discrimination. Are male and female toilets also discrimination? Or are women’s races discrimination?” he added. “We have 814 rooms, 20 of which on the 17th floor have been decorated by women for women. And that’s how it’s going to stay.”
“If the case is taken to the courts and the decision is upheld, we will have to look at what appeals we can introduce. Customers want a special women’s floor, and we will do what we can to comply with their wishes,” he concluded.
When serial killers choose who to murder, and when bullies choose to bully, they go for the person they have been taught to perceive as ‘weak’. The targeting of women in society owes much to their image as ‘victim’.
Abusive people need to stop viewing women as ‘victims’. Women need to stop viewing themselves as ‘victims’. That’s the most rational reason that the women’s only floor needs to be abolished.
On the hotel business side, the message that this is sending is that every other floor of that hotel is like a dark alley. Is that true, Bella Sky Hotel?
Maybe they could have a Men only floor too…fair is fair, they should not be required to, but it would be cool. A fully stocked bar, billiards, big screen TV’s in every room, etc… I can see why a floor designed by women would be appealing to women, thus one designed by men would be appealing to men…its simply good business.
Men are men.
Women are women.
The sexes are different.
Political correctness Feminaziness gets us laws like this one that forces private owners to stop doing something ( in this case women only floor ) that is none of the state’s business.
Bella Sky Hote keep the woman-only floor.
I will keep my men over 35-only smoking room with nice cedar humidor for my Churchills.
( You Peter London how ever are not welcome .)
James
You ahve a sexist attitude. Women should be treated equally in all situations. Just think of the lives saved on the Titanic.
This is so silly. Women should be given differential treatment ( and I am a male ) simply because they are the bearers of humankind. Men, simply put, are more ( sorry to say this ) more expendable than women.
This is the way it always has been, and the way it always will be, and the way it should be.