A bit of fun
Nightclub sells the opportunity to spy on women:
A Scottish nightclub has installed a two-way mirror allowing male revellers to secretly spy on women when they visit the venue’s toilets.
Only clubbers who hire out either of the two £800-a-time private rooms at The Shimmy Club in Glasgow can view the spyglass which overlooks the sinks in the women’s toilets.
Similar to the those used in police interrogation rooms, the mirror allows revellers in the private function rooms to spy on those in the women’s toilets without their knowledge.
“Revellers” nothing. Evil men degrading women.
A picture taken inside one of the rooms and leaked on the internet shows two female clubbers applying make-up in the toilets completely unaware they are being watched.
The two-way mirror has outraged female guests and women’s rights campaigners.
The nightclub, which is owned by millionaire entrepreneur Stefan King’s G1 Group, has defended the ‘interactive feature’ as ‘a bit of fun’.
Remember Susan Sarandon’s line? “When a woman’s screamin’ like that she isn’t havin’ any fun.” It may be fun for the men but it’s not fun for the women. We know the nightclub people know this, because they didn’t tell the women about the two-way mirror.
Shocked female revellers have told how they were completely unaware of the mirror and had no idea they could be viewed by people in private rooms as they used the venue’s toilet.
One clubber whom asked not to be named told the newspaper: ‘I was completely shocked to discover that the mirror in the ladies’ bathroom is a two-way mirror facing out onto the club. I find it absolutely outrageous that a club can get away with this, it is a complete invasion of privacy of the unsuspecting girls.
‘Nowhere is it made clear that this is the case so when visiting the bathroom for the first time, there are women bending over the sink, pouting into the mirror to redo their lipstick, adjusting themselves whilst unknowingly being watched by people on the other side.
‘The fact that these two-way mirrors only look into the ladies’ bathrooms and not the men’s makes it clear that the intention is to sexualise women as objects, allowing men to make inappropriate gestures and leer disgustingly at them.’
In what way is it interactive? It’s unidirectional, the very definition of non-interactive. If they’d wanted to make it interactive, they would have just installed a plain old window between the restrooms, so that each side could see the other and communicate visually.
But no.
That’s just …
Are we sure this is the 21st century? Is this the Prime Material plane? Have we not somehow passed into an alternate reality?
This seems reminiscent of landlords and hotel owners who used to watch through peepholes…now I guess they do it high tech.
Nit, but I think relevant: it’s not a “two-way mirror”, it’s a “one-way mirror”, a pane that is a mirror one way and a window the other way. Calling it a “two-way mirror” almost makes it sound like it’s a mirror on both sides, which it isn’t. I know that “two-way mirror” is a common way to refer to such things, but the common way is wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_mirror
This disgusts me and makes me ashamed.
Very relevant nit, Sackbut.