Bare bum in dressing room , AIBU.

@pinkboa apologies if this has already been mentioned because I have scrolled past the second half of the thread but I just wanted to say please book yourself an asthma review and ask to try different medication / up your dose. I used to have to worry about what type of air I was breathing, but now I have my asthma much better controlled and I don't even think about it now. I thought I knew what good asthmatic control felt like, but I changed my steroid and the difference was amazing.

@pinkboa

Clearly can't read sarcasm...

Sarcasm normally includes an element of humour. There is absolute no humour in your responses, despite your repeated assertion that you’re here for the laughs. Just belligerence, rudeness and a lot of ignorance.

Having said that, this thread is quite funny - it’s just that you’re the (hairy, unattractive) butt of all the jokes.

"If you don't want to see male bodies don't sit in the male changing room."

Also if you do want to see male bodies still don't sit in the male changing rooms

Are you a woman? If so, you shouldn't be in the men's

I thought this was the equivalent to taking a male child to use a male restroom.

It is. As in it’s not appropriate and you should take him with you to the ladies!

He's 2...

What planet do you live on where it’s not ok for a 2 year old to be in an opposite sex changing room but it’s fine for a grown woman to be sat for half an hour watching men get changed?!
You are utterly mental!

This thread is mad! Can you imagine a man complaining that he saw some "saggy and unattractive" boobs while sitting around in the ladies' changing room for half an hour!

So you are a woman, you sat for 30 minutes in a male changing room fully dressed with no intention of changing yourself or your child and watched other people changing. There's a word for people like you, I would have reported you to security sharpish.

Frankly as a woman, with a son why can't I take him to the Male changing room?

Because you always use the appropriate room for yourself until the child is old enough to use the right room.
That’s why you always see little boys with their mums in the mums loos and vice versa.

What if he’s a single dad who needs to keep an eye on his daughters? Just refuse to ever go swimming with them because a random woman might be in the men’s changing room and be upset?

If you don't want to see male bodies don't sit in the male changing room.
I'm surprised that you haven't had complaints from men for being in there

Different question: you want to get changed in a female changing room. a man sits there for 30 minutes, and complains online about your hairy legs/saggy breasts. According to your logic this behaviour is perfectly fine.
Big hint: it isnt. you were behaving awfully

Get out of the men's changing room you entitled creep.

You were sat in the men’s changing room and are upset at a man, in a men’s changing room, getting changed?! What the hell?!

Ducking hilarious - Lady goes into male changing room and if offended by male bottom. If a man walked into a female changing room he'd be lynched.

OP - You have a very different filter on the world to the one I have.

Did you never ponder on why no other women/mums with boys/sons were using the male changing room?

@TrixieFranklin

I did think that too....

Not Australia (but then being from there myself, it is well established that you take your child to the changing room of you, the adult’s, sex. And also if you are even changing at the beach, or at the gym, in a female change room, you see naked women getting changed all the time. OP says she has never seen women being naked in a change room.)
Not SAfrica
Has sea swimming, no public pools, is hot, popular and lovely and in commonwealth?
New Zealand is probably not hot enough.

Fiji? Maybe Samoa?

Your question about whether or not it is acceptable to be naked around other people's children in a changing room is actually an interesting one. But by being in the wrong changing room altogether you've put yourself in the position where your unreasonableness is much, much greater than the man's.

I've read your replies. I'm not going to change my stance which the world in general concurs with. I accept you will not change yours. But I'm secure in the knowledge that karma will prevail, just sorry I won;t be there to see it.

Please read with the intention of comprehending. Thanks

I have read and comprehended your contradictory posts multiple times but as yet I have not seen a single post from you that explains your actions.

So I'll ask one more time in very simple terms:

Why must you wait in the MALE changing room?

Why can you not wait in the female changing room, regardless of where you change your DS before/after the lesson?

"Its empty" is not a reasoning as to why you must use the male space over the female one, especially when a male using the space immediately means it is no longer empty and therefore your reasoning is void. It is a preference but that does not make it the only option.

Why have you mentioned restrooms in Australia? You could not possibly be Australian. We Have pools in most suburbs and people just get on with it and get dressed. Nobody stares at other peoples bodies and I am sure most Australian children have seen a nude body or two.
Also Australians know what toilet and changeroom to use.

I find it bizarre that someone can be so in the wrong, so clearly at fault for their predicament, then make a comment about someone's physical appearance, and keep coming back to the thread. I'd have slinked off long ago.

Because I, an adult has never been in a place where it is normal for adults to be undressed around children that are not their own... it's not that hard to understand.

As an adult I choose not to use swimming pools that don't have cubicles in their changing areas. But that is because of my own hangups, no-one elses.

It is entirely normal for a man to be naked in a swimming pool changing area whether or not there are other people's children in there. If you think it isn't then that's your problem, no-one else's. All I can say is carry on as you wish, but be prepared to be thrown out one day.

At ds's swimming lessons which were held at a school pool with no cubicles the swimming teacher used to get changed in there in front of the other children.

Agree he was probably Scandinavian. They are less uptight about bodies while changing. English are so funny and prudish

We still wouldn't tolerate an adult sitting in the changing room of the opposite sex gawking at people getting changed.

That's it! He must have been Scandinavian, after all you English folk are so uptight that you go home in your swimming kit and change at home, no?