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Originally Posted by rubecube
Whether the amount of harassment is less or more than other settings is completely irrelevant. If a place exists where women can be harassed less, are they not entitled to it? Why should they have to put up with any harassment.
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Nobody at all is saying they should put up with harassment. I do believe they are entitled to it which is why I am mostly arguing that the barber is also entitled to cut men's hair only. My argument is you can't have it both ways. Have your Women's gym and then complain about a barber shop who only does men's hair. The guy cutting hair is not sexist, he just doesn't know how/or doesn't want to cut a women's hair. A women's hair takes much longer or might need prolonged use of scissors which barbers try to minimize the use of.
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And maybe girls don't want to be hit on when they go to the gym, and a lot of these meatheads don't seem to get that. It doesn't help when the girl will clearly make it obvious she's not interested and the dude won't leave her alone, and yes I've seen it happen. I also go to a university gym, so there tends to be a higher ratio of both pretty girls and meatheads than I've seen at other gyms.
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No women should deal with that, but honestly those instances are pretty rare. I used to work out at Mount Royal every day at school and rarely did I see that happen. I work out at Gold's now and I feel the men try to intimidate other men more than they hit on women.
I like that idea of having a gym for people who don't want to be in that environment because frankly I am sick of it myself so I do understand why women would be as well.