What a wonderful double standard

[candor]

Forget Contours - aim higher, try and get into the nunnery!

[KATWYN]

/when I join a "woman" only facility)?

...

Hey Stonechucker

My hubby enjoyed your origional thread and agrees with all this too and wonders why men don't have the same
option. (i.e.,

I am the only woman/female/girl/lady (for those cheeky KB's!- Dover)....that works-out in the weights room at my gym. All the woman workout in the other cardio room (doing cardio) they never venture in to the weights room. Maybe only a handful of woman over the past year whenever i'm there have ever worked out in the weights area. I don't know why this is I have heard woman are afraid of heavy weights as they think they could bulk up. Anyway

I find the men in the weights room really great. They just do their own thing and sometimes if i'm struggling and don't have a spotter, a man will come over and spot me without me needing to ask. Very considerate I thought as this can also interrupt their own workout pace.

The men are actually in the gym to work out.....contrary to popular belief they are not in there to perv on us girls. Although I have never really looked too much, I see (and hear) a lot of hard work going on and have never seen "perving."

Although the men are great,sometimes I have felt like i'm encroaching on their space and have felt a bit awkward. Its like being the only woman
drinking on a 'Boys night out' with the boys ....its a boys night out! (but thats how I feel its not them) I have seen reactions from some men in my gym when i'm in the weights room that clearly they are not comfortable with me being in there when they are working out. It may be insecurities as well
which is understandable or it could be "Hey girly, weights are for boys not girls"

My hubby and I both agree that it works both ways with this man and womans gym argument.

Katie

[StoneChucker]

Hey Stonechucker

My hubby enjoyed your origional thread and agrees with all this too and wonders why men don't have the same
option. (i.e.,

Although the men are great,sometimes I have felt like i'm encroaching on their space and have felt a bit awkward. Its like being the only woman
drinking on a 'Boys night out' with the boys ....its a boys night out! (but thats how I feel its not them) I have seen reactions from some men in my gym when i'm in the weights room that clearly they are not comfortable with me being in there when they are working out. It may be insecurities as well
which is understandable or it could be "Hey girly, weights are for boys not girls"

My hubby and I both agree that it works both ways with this man and womans gym argument.

Katie

Hey Katie

I can see where you're coming from. Although this wont change your feelings immediately, I honestly think (from a guys point of view), if the weights guys are looking at you occasionally (for whatever reason), it is only because as you say it's an unusual thing, or at least it used to be. I go to Les Mills on Taranaki St Wgtn, and when I was in the weights room today (for physio/rehab) there were equal numbers of men to woman! And to be more specific, the woman were more experienced than the guys were... Generations of today have long forgotten the stereotypes of different groups of times past (or even better, never had them in the first place, like myself). I really think you can use any area of the gym, and feel (and be) just as qualified or as "normal" as anyone else there.

Going back to my original gripes, when I was in Les Mills yesterday, I read that their new club opening in Lower Hutt will have a suspended womans gym from the ceiling, with the latest G3 technology LCD entertainment systems and equipment. Us ogres on the ground floor just get the normal entertainment systems and standard equipment... Nice

I don't know how much more of this I can take

[KATWYN]

Going back to my original gripes, when I was in Les Mills yesterday, I read that their new club opening in Lower Hutt will have a suspended womans gym from the ceiling, with the latest G3 technology LCD entertainment systems and equipment. Us ogres on the ground floor just get the normal entertainment systems and standard equipment... Nice

I don't know how much more of this I can take

Is'nt this now your opportunity to do your workouts in the
suspended gym with the latest G3 technology LCD entertainment systems and equipment instead of the ground floor...........this will be interesting

[StoneChucker]

Is'nt this now your opportunity to do your workouts in the
suspended gym with the latest G3 technology LCD entertainment systems and equipment instead of the ground floor...........this will be interesting

Nope, I don't want to cause a scene - I can't fit through the entrance of the suspended womans gym at the moment ( ), with the latest G3 LCD entertainment systems and equipment.

Although, I hear they are replacing the walls of the suspended womans area with iron bars, making a suspended cage. They are then serving alcohol at the refreshments bar, charging an extra cover charge to enter and building private rooms in the back, for 1 on 1 "personal training"... [pt]

[Deano]

BTW - toilets are unisex in some countries.

Same at the nursing block - Massey Uni, Wgtn.

Try taking a huge dump.......bbbbbrrrrrrrpppppppttttttttt splash, with a hot nursing student next door. Then come out to wash your hands at the same time.

[idb]

Im With You On This , I Always Use The Ladies Toilets

Not me....."Just looking, thanks".

[idb]

I took my mullet into a barber's years ago and was turned away because "we don't do long hair". Huh?
Thank God I don't have to worry about that ever happening again!

[Big Dave]

I took my mullet into a barber's years ago and was turned away because "we don't do long hair". Huh?
Thank God I don't have to worry about that ever happening again!

I always assumed that one of the primary sources of Saturday night entertainment in Arrowtown would be watching the haircuts. You think you can pick a place, huh?

[idb]

I always assumed that one of the primary sources of Saturday night entertainment in Arrowtown would be watching the haircuts. You think you can pick a place, huh?

Ayuh!
It's a big gatherin' place is old man Horton's barbershop.
Jus' sittin' around chewin' baccy and discussin' matters of the day waitin' for our shave an' brylcreem.

[Big Dave]

Ayuh!
It's a big gatherin' place is old man Horton's barbershop.
Jus' sittin' around chewin' baccy and discussin' matters of the day waitin' for our shave an' brylcreem.

Yeah - we've gone from Druckers Store to Friends for sterotypical warm and comfy places.
I'm still at Druckers too.

[mikey]

Going back to my original gripes, when I was in Les Mills yesterday, I read that their new club opening in Lower Hutt will have a suspended womans gym from the ceiling, with the latest G3 technology LCD entertainment systems and equipment. Us ogres on the ground floor just get the normal entertainment systems and standard equipment... Nice
I don't know how much more of this I can take

i been working in there, there are some massive steel beams holding that little "womens only" part up, dont know what there trying to say about the weight of 12-20 women........

one of my friends is a personal trainer there so ive got free entry if iever could be fuked going, an i would go an work out in the womens section, just for kicks an thrills, then put up a protest about sexism an ill sue you bla bla when they try kick me out.

but following that argument of sexism, equal rights, would i be allowed to play with the toys in the kiddies creche with the kiddies? i could sue them for being ageistic or what ever the word is

an following that argument of sexism i should be able to receive all the benefits that mari receive in nz, as not giving them to me would be RACIST!

[Paul in NZ]

But you don't hate me

Thats 'cos you are a feminist 'Lady' of the best quality m'dear.. No one could hate a person capable of riding an RS250 around the south island, it would be like hating Bambi... Quite impossible...

[StoneChucker]

i been working in there, there are some massive steel beams holding that little "womens only" part up, dont know what there trying to say about the weight of 12-20 women........

one of my friends is a personal trainer there so ive got free entry if iever could be fuked going, an i would go an work out in the womens section, just for kicks an thrills, then put up a protest about sexism an ill sue you bla bla when they try kick me out.

but following that argument of sexism, equal rights, would i be allowed to play with the toys in the kiddies creche with the kiddies? i could sue them for being ageistic or what ever the word is

an following that argument of sexism i should be able to receive all the benefits that mari receive in nz, as not giving them to me would be RACIST!

What the hell is wrong with you Mikey? You're making too much sense lately

Although, I'll draw my line at playing in the daycare area
It's funny though, I pay the same fee's as women do, yet I will be receiving substandard services...

Hey Mikey, wanna put in a $2 Million treaty claim with me?

[Big Dave]

I rode my pushbike up to the fruit market across the road from the local ladies only gym this afternoon.

Couple of the girls in leotard/gym gear walked out - I checked 'em out as I rode past.

Struck me then that I can understand how they wouldn't want the some men in the room when they are bending stretching and working out.

80% of men would be cool - 20% are, well...not gentlemen.

On consideration i got no prob with chic only gyms. I wouldn't do the splits with me around either.