Peter Lloyd ignores the obvious to be a sexist shit.
"When I became a member of my local gym,
it was to exercise my body - not my human rights. But that's exactly
what I'm doing with the Kentish Town Sports Centre in north London."
Reality: That is why women and other people join the gym. But if you have tits/a Uterus then you spend most of your time at the gym being sleazily propositioned by some greasy nick who thinks that the gym is an excellent way to meet women and fuck their desire to left the fuck alone.
This is why gyms often have women only hours, so women and people perceived as women can get a fucking break from the constant sexual harassment they endure that doesn't stop even in the gym.
One time I was in the gym I got propositioned three times in as many minutes.
Indeed, I bet nobody leans over Peter Lloyd shoulder and leers down his top, smacks their lips and makes obscene propositions.
"Because, in an age of political over-correctness, they ban all men and boys for 442 hours every year - simply because they are male."
No because MEN HARASS WOMEN. This is not fucking rocket science you MRA toad. Women only sessions exist because men HARASS women. Women just want to work out without some creep standing behind them staring at their ass and making comments about how they would totally ride that.
"Adding insult to injury, they still charge them the same full-price membership fee as women, but refuse to offer the equivalent option of male-only sessions."
Do men get fucking harassed? Do men have people walk up behind them and leer? Are men subject to a constant atmosphere of sexual harassment? No? Then there's what you're paying the "extra" for, because unlike you Peter Lloyd women do not get to work out in the magical privileged zone that means you don't get harassed, so it fucking has to be created!
"Fair? I think not. But, because we live in an age of acceptable misandry, most people are too polite to say anything."
No, everyone else is just smarter than Peter Lloyd who continues to write sexist drivel on subjects he has no fucking clue about.
"After all, if demand for women-only sessions is so great then the gym should put their money where their mouth is and fund it themselves."
Or men could you know NOT HARASS WOMEN and there wouldn't be any need for women only sessions.
I'm not even going to quote the shitty bit where he compares women's bodies to dirty faces, as if that doesn't have seriously sexist connotations.
"It also assumes that all men in the gym are straight, when many of them are gay and have no interest in the female aesthetic. In fact, if they really wanted to, these men could be voyeuristic in the showers. So what next - gay and straight hours? And what about lesbians - can they attend women-only sessions, or would it make their straight sisters uncomfortable? Gimme a break."
Yeah, cos stereotypes will get you so far. Fact is, Gay men harass women as well as straight men. Only difference is Gay men do it by making catty comments about our bodies instead of sexually harassing us. Also last time I checked Lesbians weren't harassing women. It's not the looking, it's the comments, I couldn't care less if a Lesbian is checking me out, she at least isn't going to lean over my shoulder, look down my cleavage and suggest "alternative ways to get hot and sweaty" or make "sex is exercise, why don't we work out together" comments.
"If these women have issues with their bodies, I truly sympathise - but it's their problem, not mine. Nor is it any other man's."
Then persuade other men to stop harassing us. This is hardly fucking rocket science! No sleazy comments or leering? No need for women to have safe spaces.
"But, finances aside, the Kentish Town Sports Centre has a social responsibility to encourage equality as well as physical health. Forcing men - whether 70 year-old pensioners or 13 year-old boys who attend with their mothers - to leave a room because of their gender, rather than their behaviour, is degrading. It's also eerily reminiscent of when African Americans were separated from their caucasian peers in 1940s America."
The fucking problem is male behaviour! Also men are not an oppressed class! Privileged men not being given opportunity to harass an oppressed class is not the same as society wide oppression against people of color that still has consequences for that oppressed community. The most privileged group you can belong to is cis male, and white cis male even more so. But what do I expect from Peter Lloyd but racism, he's a sexist MRA.
"Because, currently, the staff at my gym are telling our young men they're dangerous by default."
THEN GET MEN TO STOP HARASSING WOMEN!
This is not a hard fucking concept even a complete embarassment to journalism like you should get it Peter Lloyd, women only need safe spaces because men are sexually aggressive and harassive towards anyone they see as a woman. If men stopped fucking harassing women and just worked out like you claim to want to do? Then there would be no need for women only sessions.
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