Hello all. I'd like to check whether I am going mad. I have not been a member of a gym since before covid, but back then I'd never seen this before.
At the gym I have joined, they have just put up a casual notice in the women's changing rooms saying "please note male staff members enter these rooms to carry out checks". Wtf? Is this telling me at some point I can be standing in my pants, getting changed, and a man is going to stroll in?
Why is this suddenly a casual thing that could happen at any moment? Like I remember before, there was this one time I had been locked out of my locker, and there was only a male staff member there to come and fix it. He stood outside and asked me to check if anyone was changing, and to come out and tell him when everyone was decent. That to me was the normal, respectful thing to do.
Now it's like "yo everyone, men could walk in. Deal with it. Bye"
Any similar experiences?
Completely unacceptable. I would tweet or otherwise publicize this and shame them and complain to the managment and say that you will cancel your contract because of it.
That being said.... there have always been creeps and predators who use their position to victimize people. When I was in school there was a male gym teacher who would regularly walk into the girls' changing room under some excuse. And when we complained they treated us like the bad guys who are trying to make a creep out of an innocent man who is just trying to do his job. He wasn't. Every single thing he claimed to walk into our changing room could have been solved another way.
I believe a desensitization took place at the idea of a man entering a woman's space, not to mention that people in general grew fearful of addressing the pandemic of men encroaching & infiltrating women's spaces...and you can thank the the woman-wannabe degenerates for this.
Put a bigger sign under it, “ any man who walks in while I’m naked will be arrested and forced to register as a sex offender”.
It's wrong. I'm sick of the people gaslighting women about it.
I've had something similar happen but as an employee... but w/ customers. I was working at the store that made the fitting rooms gender-neutral. The company was very quiet about the whole thing... some customers didn't even realize that shit happened right under their nose.
Tell me why male customers would come from the men's department (1st floor) to the women's intimates/swimwear/gowns department (5th floor) to try on clothes🤢!?!?!?! Fucking creeps man!!
I'd have women come out in tears telling me that they felt uncomfortable about the whole thing. I fucking hated that the company put me in this weird position. I felt like fucking shit about myself. We weren't allowed to question what men were doing in the women's fitting room!?!? How crazy is that!?!?
One time a woman came out of the fitting room hyperventilating. A co-worker and I approached her and asked her what was wrong. She told us, "I was in the fitting room trying on clothes...there was a mother and daughter in there....the daughter was trying on bikinis... I was in the fitting room in front of her trying on a dress...as I was leaving...the girl came out of the fitting room to show her mom her bathing suit...and there was a guy in the women's fitting room leering at her...LEERING...She ran and shut the door and she refused to come out. Her face broke me...It hurt to see her that way. She won't come out until he leaves. He needs to get out! He shouldn't be in there! She's 12 years old! 12! We've all been 12 yr old little girl.....you and I both know what that's like...He needs to leave....she's a child!"
My co-worker went over there and kicked his ass out. And he had the nerve to pretend to be lost. Bye. We know you're a fucking creepy.
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I hate how people are always like that just fear-mongering.
No, it's not. I've seen this shit with my own eyes. It's fucking real. I have plenty of stories of creepy males hiding in the women's department.
That seems wrong to me. why not send a woman to go and do these checks?
at the gym I go to they put up a sign if there’s a male staff member in the woman’s change room (for cleaning )
so at least we will know. But Ive never seen a man in there before, I imagine it’s only if there’s no women on staff at that time. but to only have men to go in there is so wrong.
but I have noticed that we aren’t allowed to have our own spaces anymore. God forbid we have boundaries and safeguarding 🙄
Honestly, I've given up on going back to a public gym ever again. This current political climate is actively hostile towards women's privacy and safety, and it looks like it's not letting up anytime soon. I'm going to just workout from home or someplace else like a park to do my runs.
Name, shame, and blame these creeps. Go on their social media pages and put them on blast. Go full Karen and demand a copy of their policy in writing. Be on the offensive and make them justify themselves. Nothing about this sounds legitimate and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn someone in management is a pervert and that there are cameras, etc. installed in the women's areas.
Thank the Buffalo Bills and their idiot pickme handmaidens for normalizing men invading women's most private, sacred spaces because muh woke politics
Wow! So unacceptable.
Whaaaaat
This is ridiculous
Why can't they employ female staff to do that?
Did you consent to this? I'd sue
Something that just occurred to me: is this even legal? In UK?
Maybe this is their way of telling you that you have no right to single-sex facilities, and there effectively is no women's locker room anymore. That way when a twanzwoman decides to invade your space, you'll know that youre powerless in defending yourself.
What the fuck that's terrifying. NO! Women say no! I've not seen this, but I would lose my mind!
I would go even further - if a business is big enough to hire more than one janitor, then there needs to be a female janitor to tend to the women's facilities. I always worry about creepy male janitors and maintenance guys planting spy cams or some shit when they're cleaning after hours.