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May I ask how big your sample size is, that is, in your three months of hosting how many over 50 guests have you had? Let me add that out of my 500+ guests the most problems have been with the under 50, really the under 40 crowd. I had one guy over 50 who showed up 2 hours before check in and one older woman who stayed here several times who booked again but questioned my pet fee. I’ll admit she was a discomfiting guest but I think that was her personality, not age. The other dozen or so minor issues have been with younger guests.
Maybe if you continue hosting you’ll find things even out.
The young adults have been our best guests too although we just had a really awesome group of older adults that stayed with us for a night last night. The families with children give us the most problems by far with unreasonable demands.
This is a sign of how most women feel unsafe to travel alone in many circumstances. Perhaps they prefer an hotel with staff and locks. It’s a reason for us to protect spaces like women’s dorms in youth hostels, which are under threat right now.
Of course you can’t generalise and say all men are a problem. However some are, and obviously lone females are at a biological disadvantage. The few occasions I have had dodgy male guests it is terrifying to be a lone female. Most women don’t know of these experiences because they live with men which is a protective factor. (Women don’t get pushed around so much if the there’s a whiff of a man around)
The shared bathroom was an excuse for the OP to not have lone males for safety reasons.
How many days has it been off? You will definitely get fewer bookings with IB off since you will be lower in search. And people prefer to use IB. If you turn it back on consider changing your listing title to “single women and couples only.”
I’m not sure of that. (In my circumstances). I think it was because I lived in an area that no one would visit for very many reasons. There was a police training facility nearby and an army base and most of my guests were visiting one of those two places. And in those days these two were male-only facilities as far as I remember.
Again, I’m relying on my memory and it was a long time ago but I seem to recall that several female guests were the partners of men who were in the local (specialist) hospital undergoing treatment. They were staying locally so that they could visit their husbands/boyfriends. If safely was an issue for them, then they might have preferred staying with a female in a proper home rather than a hotel with male staff many of which have access to room keys?
As with most women (who make it to a 'certain age) I’ve been in quite a few threatening situations. The most frightening of these was actually from another woman.
I’m wondering how that works? I would have thought that Airbnb would be more swayed by safety concerns than modesty concerns. And as she accepts men who are part of a couple then sharing a bathroom with a man is obviously not an issue?
Yes. Single women like staying with me because I am a matriarch and there aren’t random people coming and going. Even though there are no bedroom locks they feel safe.
Sex class protection does include privacy and dignity, not just safety, like women’s changing rooms. In the UK these rights are under threat as we speak, and the GRA consultation has been extended til tomorrow as a result of the furore.
Yes we talked about the mixed couples thing earlier. On one level it makes no sense. On another lone males are ‘tamed’ by a female partner.
I am okay with male guests, but I would like the choice for female hosts to host female guests in their own home.
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As with most women (who make it to a 'certain age) I’ve been in quite a few threatening situations. The most frightening of these was actually from another woman.
The reality is that men commit most crimes. 70+ % of all crimes. 80+ % of all violent crime. 90% of the murders and 99% of the rapes. I forget the domestic violence stats but I think it’s 80+ % men and of course the victims are overwhelmingly female in sexual crimes.
Most men are not criminals but most criminals are men. That gets into most women’s heads. I didn’t disciminate against men when I had them coming into my part of the house but I understand why some women do.
If self sex ID goes through in the UK, we won’t even have reliable crime and health statistics anymore. People will be classified according to gender identity, how they’feel’ rather than biology.
Lesbians are being told they are transphobic for not wanting sex with people with penises. We are now told cervical screening is good for those with cervixes; we are not allowed to say women lest it cause offence. Next we will be unwomen along these Orwellian lines. Not even Trump has gone that far.
I absolutely agree that any host, males, female or something else, has the right to host who they want and to refuse guests based on their own preferences. I also agree with @KKC who points out that so many crimes are commited by men.
I still feel however that we are in danger of ‘teaching’ children that ‘men on their own without a female ‘tamer’ are dangerous’. It’s a very difficult situation.
