Bathroom As Theatre

[plumtreeblossom]

Sorry to be harping about this again, but I was just reading miles of complaints on TripAdvisor.com about hotels surprising their guests with glass bathroom walls that leave the toilet totally exposed. I LOATHE this invasive and presumptuous trend in "decorating." Seeing so many others uncomfortable with it too was validating, but the fact that there were so many underlines the problem of how widespread it's becoming.

Priceline has landed the Wabbit and me in some pretty shi-shi digs for less than the price of a motel. For the first time in my life, I'm considering looking at European-style hotels with shared bathrooms. Its more inconvenient, but at least I know I'll have real walls! Oh, and all of you people who stay at the Pod; stick to the shared bathroom rooms. The en-suites are being rennovated to have glass bathrooms. Some already have them.

You're probably saying "Plumtreeblossom, why are you so up in arms about this when you only travel a few times a year?" Well, because I DO travel a few times a year, and I don't want my comfort levels dictated to me. I know one person who has seen this over-share design in someone's house, so it's not just hotels. I hate it because it seems to send the message "You are bad to want to hide anything about yourself." It also says "If you need an opaque toilet enclosure, you are a hopelessly unsophistocated hillbilly who ought not darken our chic doorway with your parochial sensitivities."

I need to know just how alone or not I am in this rejection of forced exposure. to that end:



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Comments

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Btw, one of my friends reported (in her LJ) that the Natick IMAX has those kind of bathrooms too. She was weirded out enough about it to blog about it. So apparently this disturbing trend goes beyond hotels. (It's a one-way mirror I guess so people can't see you, but you can see out and therefore feel like you're on display while you're on the throne.)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

WHAT??? Is this the IMAX at Jordan's, where I plan to re-see Star Trek?

I guess if it's a 1-way mirror it's not so bad, but I'd still feel overly-exposed. WHAT IT HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD???

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

See it at the IMAX at the Reading Jordan's and you'll have your opaque stalls.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

opaque is not transparent. Thank goodness!