Spandex spat at Montreal gym

[Cheese]

"The issue seems to be with these four frosted windows," said Mayer Feig, director of the Jewish Orthodox Council for Community Relations, pointing to the offending parties - a row of frosted panes on the second floor at the back of the YMCA building.
Across an alley, a scant few metres away, is the back of the Hasidic Jewish Congregation Yetev Lev. Scant enough, it seems, that young boys and teens studying at the synagogue can look across into the windows, where they would have a full view of sweaty, spandex-covered bodies, stretching and bouncing in all manner of ways.

Feig <pronounciation?>


Bad bad women dressing and excercising in bad bad ways!

[Superflyer]

"You can see people dressed in some ways that we don't believe in dressing and we don't believe in our kids dressing and we don't believe in them seeing people (dressed that way)," said Feig.

So heven forbid they cover their windows

[Table 5]

why don't they frost the windows that they are looking out of?

[The Goon]

The solution is for the exercisers and the Orthodox Jews to switch outfits for a few days, to gain a better understanding of each other's position.

[RougeUnderoos]

Well it is a school afterall. It wouldn't really be appropriate for the windows of a public school to be "a scant few metres" away from an aerobics class either.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Put up with it...it's called the real world.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Well it is a school afterall. It wouldn't really be appropriate for the windows of a public school to be "a scant few metres" away from an aerobics class either.

but why can't the school change their windows then? it seems like the most logical solution.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Double post. sorry

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Table 5

but why can't the school change their windows then? it seems like the most logical solution.

Ya, can't they just go and by some blinds?

[Shazam]

They asked the YMCA to cover their windows. The YMCA said yes. The church paid for the cost.

It's an agreement between two private parties. What's the problem here?

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Table 5

but why can't the school change their windows then? it seems like the most logical solution.

Actually I think the most logical solution is to leave things as they currently are. The issue has been dealt with and all sides are happy with the arrangement.

This is just some busybody making a stink about her rights to exercise in a room without frosted windows.

[Bleeding Red]

Originally Posted by Table 5

but why can't the school change their windows then? it seems like the most logical solution.

The school tinted their windows also.

The school needs to address the issue internally. They could reconfigure their building, alarm the doors so they are only emergency exits, try to make kids and parents use alternate pathways and entrances.

The onus is not on the gym to accomodate the school. They did so as a curtesy and being a good corporate neighbour. Clearly some of the members have a problem with this. COuld they only frost the lower half of the window? Maybe. Should they? I don't think they should have to.

[Table 5]

ok, im going to be the bigger man, and am going to offer than the school trades places with my office.

[Flashpoint]

Renee Lavaillante needs to get a life. The YMCA is happy, and the school is happy. Compromise is generally a good thing.

[Prototype]

Looking at spandex and enjoying it is a privilege, not a right.

He he he he... he said bouncing.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Most women I know don't want to be checked out by a bunch of 14 yr old boys as they try and relax via yoga. Regardless of religion, you know that's going happening with a school full of pubescent boys next door.

Besides, from the school's point of view, how attentive do you think the students are in class to the Torah when there's a room full of Lululemon wearing girls next door? Nothing would get done in that class, that's for sure. This isn't repression of female form, it's more about practicality IMHO.

I suspect the organizer of that petition just didn't like being told what to do.

[browna]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Most women I know don't want to be checked out by a bunch of 14 yr old boys as they try and relax via yoga. Regardless of religion, you know that's going happening with a school full of pubescent boys next door.

Besides, from the school's point of view, how attentive do you think the students are in class to the Torah when there's a room full of Lululemon wearing girls from Montreal next door? Nothing would get done in that class, that's for sure. This isn't repression of female Montrealersform, it's more about practicality IMHO.

I suspect the organizer of that petition just didn't like being told what to do.

Editied.

Lululemon fortunatley is also a privledge, not a right. However, the women (and the fashion and its etiqutte in general) in Montreal is a step above the rest of this country, and probably the US too....point being is that on average from my expereince, women in Montreal who work out are likely much more capabable of pulling off the spandex then anywhere else.

Carry on.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by browna

Editied.

Lululemon fortunatley is also a privledge, not a right. However, the women (and the fashion and its etiqutte in general) in Montreal is a step above the rest of this country, and probably the US too....point being is that on average from my expereince, women in Montreal who work out are likely much more capabable of pulling off the spandex then anywhere else.

Carry on.

Heheheh, I stand corrected on both counts. Before Lululemon went mainstream here in Calgary, it used to be the Official Clothing of Hot Girls Everywhere™. It used to be like a 98% correlation between the two. Interestingly, they downsized their sizes last year to articifially restrict who they sold to. Unfortuantely, when Zellers has their house brand of yoga clothing, it's all downhill from there....