But I get it: they can't stock enough shit for everybody and their needs, so someone's always going to feel left out and shit.
Like, I don't have a problem with what she is saying about hotels and shampoo and shit. I mean, hotel shampoo doesn't really mean much, but if I spent two-hundred-dollars on a room maybe I'd want to think they thought of me and my hair as a customer, too, when they stocked their shit. But I get it: they can't stock enough shit for everybody and their needs, so someone's always going to feel left out and shit.
But it probably sucks to feel left out of things other people take for granted. Like, in the hotel bathroom there are hand towels, but maybe you lost a hand in, like, an industrial accident or some shit like that, and now they got a hand towel right there and you're missing a hand, and it's like, thanks for rubbing it in, right? I can see shit like that happening.
And maybe the hotels are afraid that, if they had shampoos for black people's hair, black people would just take it home with them because it's, like free shampoo. But I think white people do that too, it's just that the white people don't think of it as shampoo for white people's hair, they just think of it as shampoo. Which I think is her point.
Because, like, maybe you're gay and shit, but the hotel pay-per-view porn in your room is only straight-people porn, there's no videos of dudes banging other dudes in the ass and shit. And that probably makes you feel left out, too. But maybe the hotels have gay porn too now, I don't know, I don't look for it, maybe someone else can answer that.
ADDED:
"One way for hotels to adapt to their new upscale minority customers is to have a sign in the room reporting that should you need specialized shampoos, etc. ask at the front desk and then keep a supply on hand for such instances. You will always have those that complain but at lease you tried."
That's a lot smarter than the plan I was thinking of. I was thinking, like, in the hotel lobby they could have a small gift shop with all the kinds of toiletries and shit in little bottles, and when you checked in they gave you a gift card for, like, five dollars of purchases and shit. And if you didn't need to buy the toiletries shit you could use the gift certificate at the mini-bar in your room, or like to pay-per-view some porn or shit.
But your way is smarter. Except for not being able to get free porn.
ADDED:
This black shampoo thing was making me think of another thing, so I looked that other thing up, and found it. It was about the 70s' SNL era, and a skit for Garrett Morris that they ended up not airing:
"Garrett Morris was feeling degraded from years of small roles and what he saw as racist sketches. At one point, the writers were going to have him do a fake ad for "Tarbrush" toothpaste, which would dull African-Americans' supposedly shiny teeth (the bit was pulled "mercifully" at the last minute). Morris also struggled with his status on the show, and began free-basing cocaine. During rehearsals for the Kirk Douglas-hosted show, Morris ran screaming onto the set, saying that someone had put an "invisible robot" on his shoulder who watched him everywhere he went. He pleaded with crew to get the robot off of him.[3]"
So, like I said, I found what I was thinking of, but then there is the thing about the invisible robot and shit, and I'm, like more interested in that. Because it would suck to have an invisible robot on your shoulder and no one believes you. And, like, fucking invisible robots would definitely do that shit, which is why robots should only be like sex robots, and not invisible.
ADDED:
"Showing special kindness to black people is something white people are impressed by, especially in these small symbolic things that they relate to on a personal level (and that have to do with one of the main things you want a hotel for, taking a shower)."
I'm not sure that is something all white people are impressed by, but it sounds good, so that's close enough and shit.
But it could also sound like Althouse is whitesplaining, maybe.
I just don't know if white people are even allowed to do whitesplaining. Like, maybe it's only black people who can explain the shit white people do.
And maybe black people can even explain white people better than white people can, because most white people don't even think about being white that much, it's like not thinking about shifting when you're in a car with automatic transmission, but then there are people out there with manual transmission, and the people driving automatics, like, pull up close behind the people driving stick when stopped on a hill, and they don't even know that they're kinda like being an asshole.
So maybe it's like that. I don't know if Althouse's Audi is stick or not, but I bet that trying to explain why you want an Audi to a black person sounds a lot like whitesplaining.
But it probably sucks to feel left out of things other people take for granted. Like, in the hotel bathroom there are hand towels, but maybe you lost a hand in, like, an industrial accident or some shit like that, and now they got a hand towel right there and you're missing a hand, and it's like, thanks for rubbing it in, right? I can see shit like that happening.
And maybe the hotels are afraid that, if they had shampoos for black people's hair, black people would just take it home with them because it's, like free shampoo. But I think white people do that too, it's just that the white people don't think of it as shampoo for white people's hair, they just think of it as shampoo. Which I think is her point.
Because, like, maybe you're gay and shit, but the hotel pay-per-view porn in your room is only straight-people porn, there's no videos of dudes banging other dudes in the ass and shit. And that probably makes you feel left out, too. But maybe the hotels have gay porn too now, I don't know, I don't look for it, maybe someone else can answer that.
ADDED:
"One way for hotels to adapt to their new upscale minority customers is to have a sign in the room reporting that should you need specialized shampoos, etc. ask at the front desk and then keep a supply on hand for such instances. You will always have those that complain but at lease you tried."
That's a lot smarter than the plan I was thinking of. I was thinking, like, in the hotel lobby they could have a small gift shop with all the kinds of toiletries and shit in little bottles, and when you checked in they gave you a gift card for, like, five dollars of purchases and shit. And if you didn't need to buy the toiletries shit you could use the gift certificate at the mini-bar in your room, or like to pay-per-view some porn or shit.
But your way is smarter. Except for not being able to get free porn.
ADDED:
This black shampoo thing was making me think of another thing, so I looked that other thing up, and found it. It was about the 70s' SNL era, and a skit for Garrett Morris that they ended up not airing:
"Garrett Morris was feeling degraded from years of small roles and what he saw as racist sketches. At one point, the writers were going to have him do a fake ad for "Tarbrush" toothpaste, which would dull African-Americans' supposedly shiny teeth (the bit was pulled "mercifully" at the last minute). Morris also struggled with his status on the show, and began free-basing cocaine. During rehearsals for the Kirk Douglas-hosted show, Morris ran screaming onto the set, saying that someone had put an "invisible robot" on his shoulder who watched him everywhere he went. He pleaded with crew to get the robot off of him.[3]"
So, like I said, I found what I was thinking of, but then there is the thing about the invisible robot and shit, and I'm, like more interested in that. Because it would suck to have an invisible robot on your shoulder and no one believes you. And, like, fucking invisible robots would definitely do that shit, which is why robots should only be like sex robots, and not invisible.
ADDED:
"Showing special kindness to black people is something white people are impressed by, especially in these small symbolic things that they relate to on a personal level (and that have to do with one of the main things you want a hotel for, taking a shower)."
I'm not sure that is something all white people are impressed by, but it sounds good, so that's close enough and shit.
But it could also sound like Althouse is whitesplaining, maybe.
I just don't know if white people are even allowed to do whitesplaining. Like, maybe it's only black people who can explain the shit white people do.
And maybe black people can even explain white people better than white people can, because most white people don't even think about being white that much, it's like not thinking about shifting when you're in a car with automatic transmission, but then there are people out there with manual transmission, and the people driving automatics, like, pull up close behind the people driving stick when stopped on a hill, and they don't even know that they're kinda like being an asshole.
So maybe it's like that. I don't know if Althouse's Audi is stick or not, but I bet that trying to explain why you want an Audi to a black person sounds a lot like whitesplaining.
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