Post by High Priestess on Dec 12, 2017 17:21:35 GMT
As a number of hosts have been discovering, Airbnb is now withholding guest photos from hosts before the guest books. APparently they are doing this in a very misguided attempt to prevent discrimination.
This practice of withholding photos from hosts prior to booking is offensive, disrespectful, and wrong. IT communicates that hosts can't be trusted not to discriminate, and it also rather stupidly and offensively uses the assumption that the only reason the hosts would want to see a photo of the guest prior to booking, is in order to discriminate. This viewpoint entirely dismisses not only the enormous value but in many cases, the superiority of the intuitive function, and the wisdom that is often referred to in the host community when we say, "trust your gut."
In another host group where this move by Airbnb was being discussed, one host completely dismissed the value of intuition, saying that if a host feels uncomfortable about a guest from the guest photo, this can only be explained as unconscious bias.
Oh come on.
Is it "unconscious bias" to feel uncomfortable about this prospective guest?
Or how about this one...surely this is a great person, you can just ignore all the icky feeling , right?
For that matter, how about all these nice folks?
bit.ly/2nTzY6T
A host said, "I can't think of a single legitimate thing in a photo that would show you whether or not to rent to someone." Well let's start with some more obvious issues and move on down. Wwhat if their photo is of a beach umbrella or a dog and you've stated in your rules that guests must have photo of themselves on their profile? What if you take the guest photo and do a reverse image search and find out this is a person who's been convicted of child sex abuse? Or burglary of homes? What if the photo shows them holding illegal drug paraphernalia, or dressed like a streetwalker? What if
Or what if you just dont' like the arrogrant smirk on their face? Or what if they look very freaky and scary?
Going by your gut is going by your gut. You can just not feel right and not know why. It's not required to consciously know why you don't want to rent. That's not unconcious bias that is intuition. It sounds like you dont' believe that intuition exists, or that one should use it.
Considering that intuition has been associated with women more than men (eg "women's intuition") I view those who dont' believe in intuition or its value as taking a patriarchal, anti-woman approach to this issue. In fact Airbnb is taking a patriarchal and anti-woman approach vis a vis hiding guest photos, by minimizing the importance of intuition in making decisions. THis is male bias -- and it's not unconscious bias, it's straight out explicit bias.
What if women's intuition were the most powerful force on earth and men dismissed it and then made arguments that made a lot of women also start doubting their own intuition, and outright dismissing it?
Women's Intuition -- the most powerful force on earth?
www.elitedaily.com/women/womens-intuition-powerful-force
“I define intuition as the subtle knowing without ever having any idea why you know it,” Sophy Burnham, bestselling author of The Art of Intuition, tells The Huffington Post. “It’s different from thinking, it’s different from logic or analysis ... It’s a knowing without knowing.”
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/the-habits-of-highly-intu_n_4958778.html
Dangerous to dismiss your intuition:
www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2015/05/12/trust-your-intuition/#711607436c60
Signs you have lost touch with your intuition (were you ever in touch in the first place?)
www.mindbodygreen.com/0-24075/8-signs-youve-lost-touch-with-your-intuition.html
This practice of withholding photos from hosts prior to booking is offensive, disrespectful, and wrong. IT communicates that hosts can't be trusted not to discriminate, and it also rather stupidly and offensively uses the assumption that the only reason the hosts would want to see a photo of the guest prior to booking, is in order to discriminate. This viewpoint entirely dismisses not only the enormous value but in many cases, the superiority of the intuitive function, and the wisdom that is often referred to in the host community when we say, "trust your gut."
In another host group where this move by Airbnb was being discussed, one host completely dismissed the value of intuition, saying that if a host feels uncomfortable about a guest from the guest photo, this can only be explained as unconscious bias.
Oh come on.
Is it "unconscious bias" to feel uncomfortable about this prospective guest?
Or how about this one...surely this is a great person, you can just ignore all the icky feeling , right?
For that matter, how about all these nice folks?
bit.ly/2nTzY6T
A host said, "I can't think of a single legitimate thing in a photo that would show you whether or not to rent to someone." Well let's start with some more obvious issues and move on down. Wwhat if their photo is of a beach umbrella or a dog and you've stated in your rules that guests must have photo of themselves on their profile? What if you take the guest photo and do a reverse image search and find out this is a person who's been convicted of child sex abuse? Or burglary of homes? What if the photo shows them holding illegal drug paraphernalia, or dressed like a streetwalker? What if
Or what if you just dont' like the arrogrant smirk on their face? Or what if they look very freaky and scary?
Going by your gut is going by your gut. You can just not feel right and not know why. It's not required to consciously know why you don't want to rent. That's not unconcious bias that is intuition. It sounds like you dont' believe that intuition exists, or that one should use it.
Considering that intuition has been associated with women more than men (eg "women's intuition") I view those who dont' believe in intuition or its value as taking a patriarchal, anti-woman approach to this issue. In fact Airbnb is taking a patriarchal and anti-woman approach vis a vis hiding guest photos, by minimizing the importance of intuition in making decisions. THis is male bias -- and it's not unconscious bias, it's straight out explicit bias.
What if women's intuition were the most powerful force on earth and men dismissed it and then made arguments that made a lot of women also start doubting their own intuition, and outright dismissing it?
Women's Intuition -- the most powerful force on earth?
www.elitedaily.com/women/womens-intuition-powerful-force
“I define intuition as the subtle knowing without ever having any idea why you know it,” Sophy Burnham, bestselling author of The Art of Intuition, tells The Huffington Post. “It’s different from thinking, it’s different from logic or analysis ... It’s a knowing without knowing.”
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/the-habits-of-highly-intu_n_4958778.html
Dangerous to dismiss your intuition:
www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2015/05/12/trust-your-intuition/#711607436c60
Signs you have lost touch with your intuition (were you ever in touch in the first place?)
www.mindbodygreen.com/0-24075/8-signs-youve-lost-touch-with-your-intuition.html
