Rule #1 be attractive
This but unironically. If some dude is benching 300 to 400 pounds or something then I’m going to watch it.
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I wasn’t being ironic.
If some broette is doing that same thing at I’m going to be staring for sure. I don’t see how it would be possible to look away.
There are a few women at my gym who have amazing definition in their back and shoulder muscles. Definitely fascinating to watch those things work when they’re doing lat pull downs.
They’re a thing here in Australia (at least two within ten mins drive of me) but also I’m yet to observe a woman at my gym doing anything seriously gym/weights/gainz related but for squats and that weird exercise where they rest a barbell on their pelvis while sitting on a 90 degree angle and kind of thrust upwards. So yeah basically just glut gainz.
Part of the issue is that these women are seeing the trends. You are seeing the one offs and judging them as one offs.
Similar thing. When Mrs Rugby first moved to aus with me. She would start observing people being a little racist towards her. I brushed it off the first few times (with predictably poor results for myself) as just “oh they didnt mean it like that”
After you see it over and over and over again, you start to realise that the racism is real, and maybe a small percent are a misunderstanding, but most are not.
Pretty sure the guys being creepy is the same thing. I’m gonna trust a girl in the gyms judgement of what happened over guys on the internet.
When there are vids, they are almost always being posted by the women whom they happened to. So you can just watch the vid. There isn’t any “trust” really required. At least not a lot.
Also.
The idea that women post about sexism online for clicks…
Have… you guys… you know… experienced the internet?
Women posting about sexism is literally the most surefire way to have a really shitty online experience for a while.
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Did you read the rest of my post?
Like, I’m telling you that as a one off, my read on a situation was “not racism”, but after seeing it over and over again I realised that reading it as a one off would result in me misjudging it.
I’m saying that’s what is happening here.
Like. This seems to be the run down.
Step 1. Women post about creeps in the gym.
Step 2. 1000s of women say “yeah. That’s exactly my experience. Gyms are fucking creepy.”
Step 3. Some of those women post their own experiences, in the hundreds and thousands, some of them are worse than others.
Step 4. Men on the internet cherry pick some examples and conclude it’s just for clicks.
… dudes.
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I’m with you until step 4. I definitely don’t think it is “just for clicks”.
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Hip thrusters are big at my gym too, which can be annoying when they’re taking up the two deadlift platforms.
Ah is that what they’re called. I don’t use the racks often but yes it is quite annoying if they’re always taken but then men at my gym are far worse culprits of the whole sitting on phone between sets thing. Especially kills me as someone who circuits around in order to maintain at least 120bpm while doing strength/core exercises.
The annoying part with hip thrusters, which men do too, is there’s lots of places they can do them. But you can only do deadlifts on the platforms, unless you want to gently set the weight down.
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My life is weird. My wife’s job is about 1h40m drive north of Toronto, but I still work for a company HQed in the Toronto financial district. With post-COVID WFH patterns I don’t have to be in the office very often, so I do work from “home” up north most days and use my very nice home gym. But I do go downtown from time to time to meet up with people in person and attend industry events like conferences. We also are in the city a lot to visit my wife’s family. When I’m in the city I go to the gym, when I’m up north I use my home gym.
engagement farming is often most effective when you post content that people have an issue with on either end of the spectrum.
also this is a two things can be true situation in that there are plenty of creeps being creepy on women in every walk of life, while also it being true that many women are labeling clearly normal things as creepy.
Optimal pickup artistry is the solver
I’m thankful I’m not single listening to horror stories of modern dating from single friends. Miss me with that shit.
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A woman who works the front desk at my gym has been pretty flirty with me. Pretty cute but not totally out of my league, in her 40s. I keep debating if I should ask her out.
Today she showed up in this:
Fucking hell man. This is why I don’t even try.
Pretty impressive seamlessly working love of guns, bashing trans people, bashing Biden, and the 1776 flag into one graphic.
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Someone should cross post this to the thread with the “hate-fucking” discussion and see what gets spit out.