I gots no particular bone to pick with gum either, it’s just that the remark caught me off guard.
C’mon. No one said that she didn’t have a right to her opinion. Where on Earth did you get that? A couple of posters have disputed her (IMO) nasty, racist comment.
How would you react if someone blamed an increase in crime on East Asain immigrants to North America?
Another fan of gum checking in. She didn’t say which religion she was targetting, and I’d say those claiming it must be Muslims are the ones doing the Ass-U-Me-ing here.
Maybe she meant Fundamentalist Christians!? IME In-Your-Face Christians are (in general, standard disclaimers and caveats apply…) far worse in terms of Homophobia than the equivalent type of Muslims. (Oh, and the [intolerant factions of] Jews are worse in this respect than the Muslims, too… :()
Just a thought…
(Wonder how many hits for preceived miscategorization and over-generalization I’ll get despite all the discaimers littering my post)
Eh, I never addressed the OP, did I? Sorry – Just want to say I’m sorry you had to experience this kind of bigotry, and I hope you find nicer places to stay in the future.
I actually agree with your decision not to make an issue of it while on the premises; but I would take it a long way now, after the fact. Don’t take the chain or the hotel ignoring your complaint for an answer. Get after those asshats’ hides!
And don’t go back there unless Management of the hotel offers you a real appology plus a free weekend as compensation 
Gum is perfection.
What’s the name of that hotel that hosted the S&M convention? Well, two hotels, really–the first one caved to pressure and told the convention to go away.
Wow, what dipshits you encountered. You’d think they’d understand that people of all types go to hotels to get it on.
If it’s any consolation, people used to make smartass remarks toward my then 18-year-old girlfriend checking us in. She’d say she needed to change for a job interview, etc., but those smart hotel people were wise to us!
I’m sure they snark at any heteros they possiblly can, too.
Wait a sec KCSuze, you overhear almost everything the staff says but you expect them not to overhear any noise from your room?
It sounds like the room was poorly acustically insulated and sounds travel both ways.
Sex usually has some noise assoicated with it, and is usually louder then you expect when you are particapate in it.
FWIM’s I was in a hotel, behind the counter, and saw a sign to the staff, something like 2 beds in room max of 2 guys, or 4 girls, or 4 mixed gender persons. Forgot the exact #'s but I though it was strange.
So if she were referring to Fundamentalist Christians that would be more acceptable than if she were referring to Muslims? How so?
I once checked into a hotel and came back later with Mrs. Bricker. (I had checked in at the front desk alone, and then came back to get her a key). I approached the front desk and asked for another key. The woman behind the counter looked pointedly at my ring finger and said something about “Your wife,” under her breath.
I said, “Excuse me?”
She replied, “I hope you and YOUR WIFE enjoy your stay,” in a tone that relflected her utter conviction that the hussy I was with couldn’t possibly be my wife. (Mrs. Bricker is six years younger than I, but I look my age and if she wandered down a high school corridor she’d be asked where her hall pass was.)
So I’d say nosy and inapproriate comments are not always limited to same-sex couples.
(At the time, I was too astonished to say anything; later, when it was too late, I came up with all sorts of devastating ripostes).
I’m sorry you had this experience. I have had trouble with Hiltons and the two-vs-one bed thing a number of times. I was at a convention once where several hotel staff members were commenting loudly and disparagingly about women and lebians. We not only complained to the corporate headquarters and that city’s chamber of commerce, but also in the moment to the conference coordinator and the head of our professional organization. We also confronted the staff and talked with the manageer in the moment (the claim was that the worst offender was fired, but that didn’t make me feel safe in the hotel). However, I will not return to that hotel or that city any time soon, because there are plently of places to spend my money where people are welcoming rather than threatening.
Besides being inappropriate, that shit is plain bad for business. I couldn’t begin to put a number on it but philanderers have got to be a significant proportion of any hotel’s business. Her ignorant assumption notwithstanding, that desk clerk needs to find a new field of work.
Making any kind of snarky comments about your paying customers such that they or any other customers can hear should be grounds for immediate dismissal. I don’t care if it’s about their presumed sexuality or the way that they’re dressed.
All of that said, I hope that the day is soon when something like a gay friendly hotel guide becomes obsolete.
If you went through their online complaint form, good luck to you!
About 18 months ago, I had a terrible experience with Red Roof Inn. They lost the reservation and then thought it was for 1 night instead of 2. But that was only the tip of the iceberg. I’ll spare you all the details, but I will say that housekeeping never got word that we were staying 2 nights. They thought they had carte blanche to enter the room unannounced any time after 10AM (even though check-out time was noon). I got names, business cards, and phone numbers. The only thing I never got was an apology.
So I complained via the Internet. I was still sitting in the motel room at the time. I entered the motel number, the city, state, reservation number, every last detail.
I got an email reply: “We’re sorry you didn’t enjoy your stay at Motel 6 in [name of city, state].” I replied, “I didn’t stay at Motel 6, I stayed at Red Roof Inn.” The two motels were 2 states and probably 700 miles apart.
I got a letter: "We’re sorry you didn’t enjoy your stay at Motel 6 in [name of city, state].
I called. I spoke to various levels of customer disservice. They kept asking me why I was complaining about a Motel 6 if I didn’t stay there. I tried and tried to explain that I didn’t stay at a Motel 6, I stayed at a Red Roof Inn, and I am complaining about the Red Roof Inn. “Well, when you entered the motel number, you entered a Motel 6 number.” “Yes,” but I entered it from the Red Roof Inn homepage, what Red Roof Inn has the same motel number?" “Since you never stayed at the Motel 6, what seems to be the problem?”
In the end, I had to direct my correspondence to the CEO. He replied with an apology and comped my 2 nights that I had already stayed.
If you submitted your complaint online, don’t be surprised if instead of a Red Roof Inn located in Missouri, they think you stayed at Motel 6 in New Mexico.
I would raise hell. That’s extremely unprofessional and that woman at the very LEAST should have her ass fired.
I want to say it was the Rennaissance by the airport, but don’t hold me to that.
No better and no worse… and unfortunately, let’s face it, rather accurate (if we remember we’re talking about certain sub-groups of religions, not all members of the religion) either way she meant it.
But I was making an obervation about those jumping to (their own?) conclusion that gum must have meant Muslims – after all we all know it’s only “The Muslims” who are narrow-minded, spiteful and bigoted against our, and others’, freedoms, right? :rolleyes:
To listen to gum describe it, yes.
Here is what she said and it was a shitty thing to say. In some ways it was even worse than not specifying who she meant. If you really do feel that way about a “certain religion” you should have the fucking stones to who they are rather than making a lame veiled reference. The point would have been made much better without that crap between the square brackets.
In the Netherlands? They sent their fundamentalists to us in, like, 1620.
Well is it really bad for business? I can see a reason a motel doesn’t want to get a reputation as a no-tell motel.