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Bare bum in dressing room , AIBU.

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pinkboa · 26/11/2019 22:57

I take DS to swimming. I got the times wrong turned up for the wrong lesson. I decide to go back to the changing room to wait. I find it hard to breath in the pool area, 30 minutes is ok, an hour and I can feel my asthma begin to act up.

There is a dad there getting his daughters dressed (fine) he was in the pool and he's down to his underwear.

Another dad arrives with his son, him and my DS are in the same lesson.

Anyways dad of daughters decides to get dressed... he drops his pants and is stark naked in front of his daughters. He is also by the door so if another parent was coming in their child would have walked into his penis! And it wasn't less than a minute because he was drying himself as well 🤢...

There are cubicles. He could have used a towel as well.

Why would and adult choose to get naked in a dressing room at a swim lesson for children with strangers around.

AIBU to find it bizarre?

His bum was also hairy and unattractive 🤢.

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wildcherries · 27/11/2019 01:31

If a man brought his DD in to the womens' changing rooms, he'd be thrown out on his ear. Like you should have been. Men are entitled to their privacy & dignity in single sex spaces, just like we are

Agreed.

You knew which changing room to go into, or you wouldn't have mentioned that you went to the men's because the women's were too full. YABU.

BigChocFrenzy · 27/11/2019 01:30

"Men should not strip off and expose their genitals to children who are not their own."

Men and women are entitled to strip off in their own single sex spaces
(if allowed within the rules of the establishment)

I certainly don't cover up in the gym changing room or shower on the very rare occasion there are children present
neither does anyone else

T0tallyFuckedUpFamily · 27/11/2019 01:30

ItsGoingTibiaK

A bare arse you say? Blimey, I’d have had a stroke.

Easy on there! We’ll not have that kind of behaviour!

Please stop troll hunting just because you don't understand an OP's thought process.

Tbf, I don’t think the OP understands the OP’s thought process. 🤷‍♀️

BigChocFrenzy · 27/11/2019 01:28

"I don't believe it's my duty to enlighten other people's children about the varying forms of the human body"

They aren't doing this

They are just using the changing rooms or showers in a single sex space as intended, not changing their habits just because children have been brought into the room

In a unisex space, it would be very unreasonable
In a single sex space it is reasonable

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 27/11/2019 01:26

I must be very tired. I did read your OP, "pinkboa*, I promise. Then I had a little nap and when I woke up I'd totally forgotten about all the small children around in your account.

In that case I totally revise my opinion. Men should not strip off and expose their genitals to children who are not their own. I know some parents practice nudity at home and that's their business. It shouldn't be engaged in in public.

One of the difficulties with male nakedness is the habit of a sizeable minority of men of using their dicks as weapons. The other is that male genitals are far less discreet than females ones. One can only describe a cock and balls as downright ostentatious.

BigChocFrenzy · 27/11/2019 01:24

"What part of it sounded undignified for him? "

You - an adult woman - being in a single sex space for men

Shesalittlemadam · 27/11/2019 01:16

@T0tallyFuckedUpFamily You've reported OP because she misunderstood British culture? She's already said she's not from the UK. Please stop troll hunting just because you don't understand an OP's thought process.

Shesalittlemadam · 27/11/2019 01:11

So if a man took his daughter swimming and chose to use the female changing room, that wouldn't bother you OP?

Then the man went and sat in the women's changing rooms whilst his daughter had a lesson - THAT wouldn't bother you?

If either bother you then you're a hypocrite

BlackCatSleeping · 27/11/2019 01:10

This thread made me laugh so much. My favorite drip feed ever!

ApexPrey · 27/11/2019 01:10

It would be interesting to see if the mothers who go into the pool with their kids also go starkers in a room full of people and their children. I highly doubt it

Many will. It's totally normal. Most people have no issue with their child seeing an adult naked in the context of a swimming pool changing room, and rightly so.

I'm interested in where you're from, cos it seems to be an even more prudish culture than the British! Quite a feat!

ItsGoingTibiaK · 27/11/2019 01:09

A bare arse you say? Blimey, I’d have had a stroke.

Can’t decide if you’re really obtuse or have reeled everyone in like an expert angler, OP.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 01:05

@SlightlyStaleCocoPops

Who knows? 🤷🏽‍♀️

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pinkboa · 27/11/2019 01:04

@Prawnofthepatriarchy

Did I object to the sight of a naked man?

Or a naked man in front of strangers children... hmmmm

I do wonder...

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SlightlyStaleCocoPops · 27/11/2019 01:03

"His bum was also hairy and unattractive"

Would it make a difference otherwise?

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 27/11/2019 01:01

I object vigorously to men in the women's changing room but it seems VVU for a woman in the men's changing room to object to the sight of a naked men. She shouldn't be there and he shouldn't feel self concious.

One of the reasons I oppose mixed sex changing is that if I feel comfortable I have been known to take all my clothes off and shower naked, particularly if it's a hot day.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:57

@Schuyler hot chocolate always works for me...

Tonight I opted for camomile ...so I'm up and alert watching stranger things...

I'm sure this thread reads the same...

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pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:54

@Aquamarine1029

No, that is what you are deducing.

It great how subjective thought processes work , isn't it?

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pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:52

@BigChocFrenzy

What part of it sounded undignified for him?

It's clearly common practice, something I was not aware of.

Like I said, if you bothered to read , now I knowSmile.

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Aquamarine1029 · 27/11/2019 00:52

Where did I say he was a perv?

That is EXACTLY what you're implying, and you know it.

Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:51

Good night but no, I do not have work tomorrow but thank you for suggesting I go to bed. :)

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:47

@Schuyler

Go to bed, I'm sure you have work.

Please. Goodnight.

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pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:46

@Schuyler

I used those specific words... well then.

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Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:44

^woman not women, hopefully there was only one of you!

Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:43

He’s probably posting on dadsnet about some weird women who sat, fully clothed in a changing room and looked at his arse.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:42

Just to add I would find this odd even if I was in the women's dressing room.

Because I wouldn't go naked in front of anyones child boy or girl... because I don't believe it's my duty to enlighten other people's children about the varying forms of the human body. Man or woman I would still be wondering why they couldn't have put a towel around themselves, especially as this is a very specific infant/toddler swim lesson.

It would be interesting to see if the mothers who go into the pool with their kids also go starkers in a room full of people and their children. I highly doubt it.

But I guess we won't find out until the next Episode of human bare bums in dressing rooms!

But I've learned a lot... thanks!

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