susanstinson

I imagine that varied a lot depending on the particular person. Once at at fat women's gathering in Seattle, a woman on the housekeeping staff stopped me in the hall to talk to me -- again, with a lot of passion -- about her interest in pagan religion. She'd seen an altar in someone's room, and told me that other staff were disturbed by it, but she felt very connected to it. At that same hotel, I talked to another woman who worked in housekeeping who was looking at the clothes in the vendor room, and told me that she wanted to buy something for her daughter. So, yeah, I'd imagine a range of responses.