A hotelier is actually creating a new type of hotel, that's right.
She's creating a woman-only hotel, only female guests allowed to stay, why?
Cuz she's tired of men, she's tired of dudes being dudes, so
she's opened this female-only bed-and-breakfast.
It's a sanctuary for women who don't have to deal with obnoxious dudes,
this is by the way, in China.
So, don't worry, don't get upset, unless you're in China,
in which case, I don't know.
But she's identified only by her surname, Lu and
she's told Sohu Kian Lion on July 8, which I believe is a media outlet.
That she made the decision after a female guest at another of her bed and breakfast,
had a fling with a guest who turned out to be a con man.
So, let's leave that aside, but here's the story.
She owns four Inns in Lijiang, and
she said that the female guest was taking a holiday in March to heal from a previous
relationship that ended when she encountered a fraudster.
So, when the two of them left Lijiang together, the man hadn't even gotten off
the plane when the police arrested him, and she found out he was a scam artist.
So, I guess this woman went with him.
The whole situation left the girl shaken, and it was very daunting.
So, this is a shorthand of what happened to her, but basically,
this poor woman met a con man in this other woman's hotel, in Lu's hotel.
And Lu was, that's it I'm done with men.
So, she wants to protect women, like this woman, who wants to protect Lijiang,
the tourist destination romanticized, as an idyllic town where people fall in love.
She wants to protect it from becoming known as a hotbed for
sleazy encounters and guests taking advantage of others.
She's in it for the romance people, okay?
Now, there's been a lot of mixed opinions, of course, over in China.
Some are praising her, others say it's not fair,
saying we need male only holiday locations, kinda we need a Spike TV,
as opposed to everything else, which is dripping with misogyny.
Here's some comments from the social media platform Weibo in China, a couple of them,
that's great!
Multiple options, especially suitable for solo female travelers.
And then, are there no fraudsters among women?
[SOUND] Actually, alternatively,
you could start a place that only accommodates male guests.
But then your establishment would get backlash and criticism.
This boss is great, it's not just about money,
they're also thinking about their guests' safety.
So, what do you guys think here?
Here apparently, and look,
this has to have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
This is a hotelier who has seen a lot of dudes hitting on women in the lobby,
in the bar and whatnot, and was, that's it, I'm gonna take action.
I for one kinda love it, I think it is very intriguing and for sure if you're
traveling alone, I'm a comic a lot of female comics travel alone, right?
It makes you feel far safer if it's a woman only hotel.
>> Yeah, so look, first thing I have to say is, let her go, let her go.
And I'm gonna get to maybe a little serious commentary in a second, but first,
a bunch of nonsense.
I like how as we were telling the story about how the dudes are banned,
we had pictures of dudes, like those guys, they're the ones that are banned.
>> [CROSSTALK] They looks quite distraught.
>> Yeah, they did, they looked like, God.
>> No, he's a little happy about it.
>> Okay, he's going to mail only one, okay.
Speaking of which, is that a thing?
We want hotels that are males only, why do we want that?
[LAUGH] How does that help?
I mean, it might help some folks, but okay Kind of a weird request.
So this is China,
not the US In the US you can't deny service based on factors like this.
And I get why and of course we can't do that, but
I want to make an exception for women Okay?
Now, why do I and in China, you can, so let her go, let her go.
Because guys, come on, keep it real are you gonna a bed and breakfast and
having women hound you all the time and hit on you and run scams on you?
If you are, then tell me the name of the bed and breakfast,
that happens that often, okay?
Whereas guys doing that keep it real, it happens a lot more.
So some women want safe spaces where they're gonna go enjoy their vacation
without cheesy dudes constantly hounding them.
Seems like a perfectly fair request, right?
Look, everybody's got their biases and stuff, and
the con man thing was kind of out of the blue, right?
Yeah Hitting on people, but I get but conman, but you never know because,
like so when I got married to my wife, who's from Taiwan,
first question all of her relatives asked is, does he sell ice cream?
Because apparently in Taiwan, there's a bunch of Turkish ice cream vendors.
Who knew, okay, she's like, no, he doesn't sell ice cream and
then the second thing that her dad had, >> They were like,
>> [LAUGH] The second thing her dad asked,
they were all well meaning her dad has a wonderful person.
Was, is he a con man?
[LAUGH] It turns out that I think it's in his building, or
it was another relative, I don't remember.
But there was one Turkish guy that they'd ever met, and
he ran a con on some poor woman that was one of their neighbors.
And so they're like, watch out for the Turkish [LAUGH] Random,
stuff like that So should you then ban all Turkish guys?
No, of course not, right?
And it depends on the other hand, I saw a tourist in Turkey once,
and I said, what brings you here because she spoke English I speak English.
And she said, well, honestly, for the hot Turkish men And I was like, really, okay?
And she's like, yeah, I just wanna have fun and
Turkish guys will give you fun if you ask for it, okay?
And I was like, didn't know, okay.
So it depends And if they want a nice relaxing vacation without a lot of guys
hanging around, let them have it, for God's sake, what does it hurt?
>> This is the thing If you're upset about it,
I'll speak it in terms of America because obviously I don't know the dynamics and
everything there, but I assume it's similar considering what she was saying.
But considering our society, if you're upset about it's,
refusing to pay attention to our society, sure.
Is it exclusionary, is it keeping men out?
Yes, that's the whole damn point But the reasons behind it,
if you just think one more layer past getting offended by something like,
this there's the Curves gym I don't know if that's even around anymore It's women's
only gym You know why?
Cuz I go to La Fitness And then when you walk around,
you see maybe the women's class or maybe women on an exercise bike or
whatever Women are doing anything they want in the gym.
Without question, you will see men going, I saw a guy standing
outside of a window where there was an aerobic class or something.
The water fountains are right next to the window It's an enclosed room, but
it was a whole wall was a window.
The guy, no lie, got it from the water, stood at the window like this and
just looked for a good two minutes straight I was like, my God.
And all the women in there could see him and it's just uncomfortable.
So does our society have a space where maybe women are hounding men when
they don't want to be hounded on a wide scale and
then men kind of don't know where they can go?
Cuz by the way, if you're upset about it and
you can't go to the women's only hotel, there's tons of other hotels In fact,
every damn other hotel accepts you You've got plenty of options.
So when you're excluded and you have no options, there's the problem If you
exclude it and there's tons of other options, you're good, you're fine.
>> I mean, it's really interesting with Janky bringing up,
it's not actually legal in this country although a Supreme Court decision
which allows you to discriminate against gay people might change that and
we might be back to those times, ut it is interesting.
It reminds me of the discussion If you guys remember when Superwoman came out,
it was sort of like dovetailing with the MeToo movement or
maybe some of the gamergate tail end stuff,
and there were like women only screenings of Superwoman or Wonder Woman.
I'm sorry, I'm so bad with these things Wonder Woman and
everyone was like the guys were like, my God, how dare you?
And it's like, no, bro, you could buy a ticket you're just gonna
be surrounded by women looking like an idiot, going like,
it's my right There are women workspaces, right?
It's called the wing.
Yeah, I don't think they can legally turn away a guy, but
you're gonna be the one guy in this workspace for women, going like, See?
Proven a point You're like, my God So do you really wanna be that dude?
It is important to mention, though,
china has this insane skew when it comes to male female ratio.
It's the most skewed in the world There's 110 males born for
every 100 females as of 2021 So there's more males, and
there's about 34 million more men in the country than women So it's kind of like,
you might go to a hotel, and there's like, not just one sad dad in a baseball cap.
Sorry, but that's kind of the archetype at the bar strikes up a conversation
you're like, I'm cool guy.
There's, like, ten sad dads, and you're like, you need to call your wife, okay.
>> So I'm gonna back up everything you guys said, okay?
First, I was at a gym, and we're hanging out with this guy, and
he starts to jarrah's point He starts looking at this woman like maniacally, and
for, like, I don't know, 15 seconds or some interminable amount of time,
I'm like, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
And he's like, they want to be looked at Like, do they?
Do they?
Okay, whenever you say women only, guys always like, catch feelings, right?
They're like, there's the guys who constantly suing Hooters I wanna work
at Hooters, too do you?
Do you?
Okay, Hhve Adam remember ladies night We did a bar story from ay back Yeah,
that's right Like, I want ladies night Do you?
Why, okay and then whenever you say, hey, can we just give them
a little area where they can have a little bit of space to breathe,
right?v Guys are always like, yeah Did I want all the CEOs to be only white men?
Wait, why are those two things related?
They just went on a vacation for, like, a second why does that open the door
to every kind of discrimination that you had in your fantasy?
That existed before, by the way, totally, right?
And then finally, look, guys, come on, there's a difference between guys and
girls, right, and men and women.
So women generally don't hound us as much like I was saying earlier,
I wish they did, but they don't, right?
And we kind of were more aggressors, and sometimes they don't want the aggression.
Just give them a little bit of breathing room, for God's sake,
it'sot too much to ask for 8 for the Hotel Yay in China Let her go lett her go,
yeah, let her do whatever she wants