{"id":164409,"date":"2020-10-13T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/13\/corporate-feminism-gives-us-vagina-candles-and-empowerment-hotels-but-all-i-want-is-equal-rights-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:51:25","slug":"corporate-feminism-gives-us-vagina-candles-and-empowerment-hotels-but-all-i-want-is-equal-rights-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=164409","title":{"rendered":"Corporate feminism gives us vagina candles and empowerment hotels. But all I want is equal rights | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Washington DC hotel features pink pool tables, an Empowermint cocktail and Ruth Bader Ginsburg depicted in organic tampons. Its timing could not be worseAll women ever wanted was equal rights and bodily autonomy. Instead we got candles that smell like Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s vagina. We got pink \u201cpussy hats\u201d and \u00a3580 Christian Dior T-shirts with \u201cWe should all be feminists\u201d written on them. We got 15,389 articles about manspreading. We got #Girlbosses. We got Ms Monopoly, a board game in which women make more than men. And now corporate feminism has leaned into the hospitality industry and bequeathed us the empowerment hotel.Last week, easily missed among the innumerable other horrors coming out of Washington DC, saw the opening of Hotel Zena. Located near the White House, the venue describes itself as \u201ca groundbreaking hotel dedicated to female empowerment\u201d. The whole thing feels like it was conjured up by Ivanka Trump in a fever dream \u2013 although the patron saint of fluffy feminism, I should clarify, has nothing to do with this particular endeavour. Hotel highlights include pink pool tables, a $16 cocktail called the Empowermint and 60 pieces of art, that, as the press release boasts, were created by \u201cfeminists of both genders\u201d. The pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance is a mural of late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made of 20,000 hand-painted organic tampons. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/oct\/13\/corporate-feminism-gives-us-vagina-candles-and-empowerment-hotels-but-all-i-want-is-equal-rights\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate feminism gives us vagina candles and empowerment hotels. But all I want is equal rights | Arwa Mahdawi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Washington DC hotel features pink pool tables, an Empowermint cocktail and Ruth Bader Ginsburg depicted in organic tampons. Its timing could not be worseAll women ever wanted was equal rights and bodily autonomy. Instead we got candles that smell like Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s vagina. We got pink \u201cpussy hats\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}