RE: My schizophrenic opinions on sex segregation in gyms
August 30, 2016 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2016 at 3:19 am by Regina.)
I'm not against female-only gyms, but personally I don't think I've never witnessed men really acting inappropriately towards women in the mixed gyms. The closest thing I've seen to that was this one time this caveman, missing link, was grunting loudly around the gym attracting attention to himself, and taking his shirt off (he had nothing worth showing tbh) and flexing for anyone he thought was looking. Even he wasn't approaching anyone in particular though.
Sure it absolutely must have happened to some at some point, but it's something I do think is very largely overplayed in my opinion. I'm sure men do notice and perhaps look at the women, but I have literally never seen a woman get stalked around the gym or catcalled.
I also think a lot of the "issue" has to do with women who (perhaps naively, perhaps deliberately) go to the gym in tight see-through leggings and a skimpy bra and seriously think testosterone-pumped men aren't going to notice. That's silly. You have absolutely every right to go to the gym dressed like that if you want, but people will naturally look at you and you sound dumb complaining about it.
Sure it absolutely must have happened to some at some point, but it's something I do think is very largely overplayed in my opinion. I'm sure men do notice and perhaps look at the women, but I have literally never seen a woman get stalked around the gym or catcalled.
I also think a lot of the "issue" has to do with women who (perhaps naively, perhaps deliberately) go to the gym in tight see-through leggings and a skimpy bra and seriously think testosterone-pumped men aren't going to notice. That's silly. You have absolutely every right to go to the gym dressed like that if you want, but people will naturally look at you and you sound dumb complaining about it.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
