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Facts, the whole Gen-Z gym culture as a whole has become so bizarre. Good for more people exercising and what not, but boy the fashion trends (from both genders) and the whole cameras filming everywhere is so annoying.
I remember in the early 2000’s women would be in the gym in old college t shirts and baggy sweats and dudes would be in there in tattered hoodies beat to shit. It definitely was not a fashion show back then lol
gyms won’t ban cameras cause they’d lose money. but they need to be banned. hell, i’d ban selfie videos in public anywhere if i was king, but good thing im not eh
kinda obviously depends where you live. some gyms are overrun with influencers, cities can get really bad. and considering many gyms are chains they’re not gonna implement a ban nationwide when gyms like yours don’t have the problem.
Some genZ kid pulled out his phone and started taking selfies in the gym locker room mirror the other day! I told him to put his phone away and he said "Why?" I asked him if he wanted strangers taking pics of him naked? He shut the fuck up after that.
It's worse in Korea. You know how they're uber-obsessed with beauty.
So, at least the gyms I know of. They ALWAYS film you, ALWAYS. Like the instructor. Then you can choose to get thoes videos, and if allowed they'd post them.
But they always film. You cannot stop them from. At least true of Gangnam area gyms.
YOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS? google goldy's gym 80s, see what people used to wear.
Look up any photo of arnold and the gang when they were training. people were regularly shirtless in gyms in 80s and 90s. it was disgusting!
Gyms just have to ban people from filming. Mirror is fine for checking your form. You don't need to film yourself doing every exercise. The people who come with the tripod are basically fucking bullies. honestly just gonna have to start accidentally kicking the tripods if the gym doesn't do something about it
My fave gym goer was the guy who'd come in wearing a hoodie and sweat pants, and just go full out on the treadmill for like ten minutes then leave. I don't know what he was training for or if he just liked it, but dude was a cardio beast.
Late 80s/early 90s? That's pretty on point from what I saw. I was never into that scene. But a girlfriend I had at the time often had me pick her up from both workouts and her dance classes. And those are exactly the same types of outfits women wore.
Its not the clothing that changed. It's the hypocrisy of filming a workout video to get horny male followers on social media but being pissed that a horny male follows you in person.
I assume both sexes have a modest following of fellow bodybuilders who are interested in their form or technique, etc. but the women just have an additional million followers that are just horny dudes.
I live in the middle of nowhere and drive to two different gyms. Every time I'm there there's more than one person filming themselves. Tripods are not so common (yet) but if you pay attention there's always someone recording. It's gross and disrespectful to the other people in the gym.
I saw a clip where he was trying to get some girls into a shipping container, it was good, I need to check the show out.
Edit, Here! https://m.youtube.com/shorts/tOlAzMkxpV0
Gotta say, the line “don’t use that machine, it’s a trap,” is hilarious. I have literally suspected that before when I saw an “influencer” type flexing and moving in front of a machine I was walking toward. I just decided I could find something better. I think that was wise.
Ok, at first I was like, shit I'm a dude but I'd be a bit creeped out if you brought a huge martial arts weapon to the gym but yeah, I don't mind if you're a little stinky
Idgaf about your breathing but please wear deodorant! That's not fair to the people around you.
Also this should go without saying but PLEASE wash your hands before using equipment and wipe it down after!!! My husband says he's seen people go from the urinal directly to the equipment which is absolutely disgusting.
idk we just need to stop content farming, half of this debate is bred online. no one cares that much. i wear sweats and a top and men will stare at me in the gym. i check out cute hot women in the gym, im not leering though.
give ppl their space, stop filming all this shit, allow independent thinking and take accountability for when youve realized youve done wrong.
It's basically only online too. I'm in the gym 5 days a week. Yes some women wear tight athletic wear. No one bothers them. We're all just here to work out not critique each other's fits. If it isn't very clearly inappropriate then it's probably just certain folks being uppity.
I agree and think there is an often overlooked DNA/brain chemistry aspect to this. We are still animals with certain things hard wired. No excuses for being creepy, breaking the law, or treating someone unequal. Just saying a chemical biological tension is created that people have to suppress. It can get tiring and distracting.
Anyone bringing a camera in a gym is a fucking loser. People would be shamed and kicked out where I lift. If they don’t do that in your gym it’s run by morons.
Men can wear tights and tight shorts, is also nothing bad... it's just that men are also aware that they are attention seeking then. Everyone with great tree trunks wearing skin tight short tights knows they are showing off their pump and love the attention. Every man knows that and nobody disputes that. It is just honest, still thirst-trapping.
Obviously... that is the main point I think. That women are just not honest why they wear unnecessarily tight and short stuff when they could also just wear less skin tight gym clothes.
Just state "Yeah I wear that to get attention" and done.
I really think this whole situation is 99.9% online bitching. I've seen a man shirtless with super short shorts that were getting close to speedo territory & I've seen women in sports bras and ass scrunching shorts, who gives a fuck if you're covered according to law? Women aren't stupid, we know people will look. There is a difference between looking and your work out becoming leering. I'm pretty sure most men know the difference, just like women do.
I’m all for people wearing whatever they want but personally if I wore clothing as tight and minimal as some women in the gym I would feel naked as hell.
We should take a step back and ask why minimal tight fitting clothing is somehow normal for women but not normal for men.
Again, wear whatever you want but the “male gaze” is the driving factor of why these tight fitting clothes are the way that they are and anyone who thinks otherwise is so deep in denial.
i've been a 4-5 days/wk gym goer for 20+ yrs. i've never gone to a fancy gym, just a big place that's cheap and has lots of equipment and good hours. i've been going to the same gym for 10ish years now. it's a mix of hardcore and regular folks, I fall somewhere in between. precovid everyone was pretty slobby, guys and girls. sweats, shirts, muscle shirts. no cleavage, little shorts, or yoga pants to be seen or, at least, very rarely. then covid happened. i didn't go to the gym for 1.5 yrs or so. went back and the girls were dressed like tiktok/insta fitness influencers. those yoga/workout tights which hug each buttcheek individually. little sports bras built for fashion, not support. tiny tiny shorts. i'm not sure what happened. i'm not exactly complaining because ,admittedly, some of these women look amazing in their gear but i'm not sure how covid flipped that switch.
I just have hank hill ass. Those people showing their (free) flat feet pics, I keep thinking someone uploaded a pic of my ass. I envy people who can just sit anywhere and be comfy. It is funny when my wife tries to grab my butt and it takes 3 or 4 tries.
Yeah the way I look at it, a woman who dresses that provocatively is asking for people to admire her... respectfully of course. You do little glances. Find a reason to tie your shoe laces. Etc... That's all fine. If you make rude comments, now you are crossing the line, but provocative outfit in public does equal consent to be looked at.
i find it weird how many struggle to grasp this perspective.
Whether we like it or not, how we present ourselves in public is a choice that others are entitled to react to.
Dress up in a way that many find very attractive? expect some looks, i mean shit the phrase "head turning" is a thing for a reason, its natural to look at attractive people. dont be weird or creepy about it tho and dont assume it means they consent to being touched or harassed.
Yeah and if you dress like a nut job, you want people to look at that too. If you don't want to be the center of attention, you dress casually, like most people do. There's a guy who used to rollerblade in a thong with his butt cheeks painted in San Diego every day on the boardwalk. Even his roller blades were loud colors. If someone gawked at him, would you say they were in the wrong? No, he clearly wants this attention.
Seriously, if I work out in a male g-string people are going to look. When I was stripping at a party I noticed a woman straight staring at my dick and I said "my eyes are up here". She got really flustered and started defending herself, before I explained I was just messing with her. It's my job to be objectified.
This is why I have always liked Matt Stone and Trey Parker's theory about comedy;
Either it's all fair game for comedy or none of it is. You can't start saying it's not okay to make fun of this thing or that thing in comedy or the whole thing falls apart.
Trust me there are guys that loved his SNL monologue out there. He has a fan base and they were the ones he played to simple as that. Comedy has always been divisive unless you're known as a kid friendly comedian.
I mean not really, I didn’t know anything about the guy and thought the monologue was hilarious. I just starting watching Tires because of it and it’s hilarious, glad his bit went viral or else I probably wouldn’t have discovered the show!
As a woman, how are you ladies finding athletic wear that tight without having a constant veggie? I’d be spending half my time just picking fabric out of my meat flaps and the other half trying to ignore my meat flaps actively eating the fabric.
Yea I just ignore it. Some of us have an anatomy where those happen in ANY clothing that isn't basketball shorts baggy...you just learn to say "fuck it" and keep going. Personally I prefer to wear baggy big shirts over tight shorts but that's more bc i don't like compression on my upper body like I do on my lower
Whether it's wearing a burka or shaming people for "staring" in order to create social pressure, they both have the same goal of preventing someone from looking at the female/feminine form. It's just people trying to control other people. With the burka, it's putting the onus on the woman. With the public shaming, it's putting the onus on everyone else. They are different approaches, but they both come from the same place deep down in the human psyche: A desire to control others.
When did we lose the urge for basic decency? Who wants to see a camel toe when working out 😭 and I'm a bi woman that is constantly horny lol, just keep your slits to yourself 😆
Well, there is a point when it becomes uncomfortable and whatever that point is, is when you should stop. Same thing you’d want for yourself. Obviously there are nuances though. If I’m walking around half naked, I’d understand people staring even if I was uncomfortable because they’re likely just as if not more uncomfortable. 💁🏻
Women, wear whatever the hell you want. If you want to wear things for attention whatever but victimizing yourself when people look is beyond fake.
Men, appreciate the female form if it looks good to you. Just don't be a freak and try and control what people want to do, if you try and get weird with it don't be surprised if you get clocked.
End of the day, we're all human. If someone has it and wants to flaunt it with their gym attire, cool. If someone notices cause they have eyeballs and go to look, also cool. Just keep it brief. It's okay to look, it's not okay to gawk.
Didn't think I'd like it at first, but it kept getting better and better.
The scene in the last season where he's eating chicken wings and notices the old guy eating them as well has become one of my favorites bits of television
I did not expect some of the hard-hitting themes just like the chicken wing bit. I figured it would be a Seinfeld-esque show about nothing but the underlying story beats with Shane and his dad’s relationship combined with the shop’s financial ups-and-downs is actually quality. I came for the dumb humor but stayed because I started caring.
It’s crazy the people spazzing online clearly don’t know the type of shorts he’s talking about, because they’ve never seen the inside of a gym. You can show the most ardent feminist the shorts that go directly up your ass crack and then would have to admit that it’s a bit much. There is no possible way in hell having fabric touching your asshole is comfortable or conducive to working out.
It's a double standard. That's all he was trying to point out. He wrote a really bad joke, but regardless I'm sure we all actually know the truth. People that go to the gym that dress the way they do want attention. Simple that's it.
They want a specific guys attention too. Its like when women read fifty shades of Grey when the guy was rich and good looking. It all else equal but it was a poor guy in trailer park it would have caused an uproar, and been a rape novel but instead it was the best selling book at the time. Women want it all. They want to dress slutty but not be labeled a slut. They want attention from best looking guys but none from the poor avg looking guys. They want equal pay but not for any hard manual labor jobs, I could go on and on
If you get caught looking and your tall and handsome, They are flattered. Might even get a little smile back. If you are overweight or too skinny and not even close to mediocre looking, then, it becomes creepy, and you're a creep. And a weirdo and a pervert. And how dare you!
Was half staring half zoning out at a girl at the gym the other day. She turned around and made eye contact. She just smiled and went on with her workout and I did the same.
Here's my criticism of his monolog: why would you name drop Rogan and Theo Von? Being host on SNL is the impressive part, not your connection to those two.
I do find the outrage of what is a pretty mild joke to be hilarious. Honestly shes one of the more clothed women at the gym too, making this sketch even funnier
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