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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 🤢.

OP posts:
JolieOBrien · 09/12/2019 04:42

I cannot believe this this thread is still rambling on pmsl

MomsyDK · 08/12/2019 12:52

It's just a man drying off, it's as ridiculous to be upset about nudity in a chanting room, as being upset about a baby being born naked.. No wonder UK has problems with teen pregnancy when something as insignificant as a naked mans changing and drying off after swimming with his child is blown out of proportion..

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/12/2019 12:21

@MarkIV75 - if you read the OP's updates (you can highlight all the OP's posts in any thread in the Customise option, by clicking on the v next to Talk at the top of the page) you will see that she has answered your question at least once, maybe more.

MarkIV75 · 08/12/2019 08:47

If you enter a mens changing room, expect to see naked men.
If that is is too much for you, YOU entered the wrong room.

Ctrarian · 08/12/2019 06:18

Oh. And a question:

If a man - or a couple of men, say, dads waiting for their kids - decided to spend half an hour in the womens changing room because of asthma, would it be alright to bring beer and crisps to dull the shock of finding out that not every naked lady in there is a 25 yo, perty-breasted, cellulite-free, clean shaven TV fantasy...

...or would that be considered sexist and wrong?

Ctrarian · 08/12/2019 06:06

So - just to clarify:

You - a woman - walked into the men's changing room. Sat there for half an hour before a man who's not up to your personal standards of buttock tautness and hairlessness got naked in your field of vision?

And now you want us to think that he's the unreasonable one?

Do you by any chance spend your friday nights standing next to the urinals in the gents', complaining that you are being flashed all the time and that none of the penises you saw were very big?

MarkIV75 · 08/12/2019 01:13

What are YOU doing with your son in the men's changing room?
Mothers with small children - boys or girls - go to the women's changing room.
Fathers with small children - boys or girls - go to the men's changing room.
Mothers like you raise akward children.

Nobi · 08/12/2019 00:14

So you decide to go into the mens because the womens room is more crowded and then that justifies skipping the wait? What an entitled prick lol.

blackteasplease · 04/12/2019 11:55

Ha! Just read the beginning and end of this. Like many, I assumed on the first page it was the women’s changing room, as that would have been inappropriate.

But in the men’s? Of course a man can strip naked in the men’s! He has to take his daughters in there as it would be wrong for him to go into the ladies’, just as it’s wrong for you to go into the men’s.

If children are young enough to need help changing, they are young enough to go into the changing room of the opposite sex. If they are too old to go in there, they are old enough to change unaided.

And who randomly walks into the opposite changing room to help their asthma? Surely you go outside?

But anyone replying in capitals is far worse than you OP.

IcedPurple · 04/12/2019 10:40

Not much to add to the comments about the absolute absurdity of this.

However, can I ask why you felt the need to specify that this man's bum was "hairy and unattractive 🤢"? If his bum had been smooth and peachy would it have been OK? Imagine the reactions if a man had sauntered into the women's changing room to relax for a bit and complained about seeing a woman's tits? Tits which were also 'saggy and unattractive'?

FNUSNU · 03/12/2019 22:22

YABVU! If a man went into the ladies' he'd probably be arrested, you are lucky that you weren't. Some would say it's perverted behavior. You are also extremely judgemental in the way you talk about his body and should be ashamed.

Wayne99 · 03/12/2019 20:32

she was in a men's changing room! absolutely nothing wrong with the man being naked there... next time use the ladies' room.... can't understand why ladies do this... the other day i went to the men's bathroom at a certain establishment and I find a mum changing her son's diaper with her other boy watching on in the men's room.... I couldn't be bothered... just went to the closest urinal next to her, whipped it out and did my thing...did she see my penis? I'm sure she did as it was in full view... but next time lady don't invade our space!

spanglydangly · 03/12/2019 16:20

Heart radio are on it as well!

TriangularRatbag · 03/12/2019 13:54

IF A MAN GOES INTO THE WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOM HE IS ACUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT....SO,BIG MOUTH WOMAN....YOU WENT INTO THE MEN'S LOCKER ROOM....NOT JUST THAT,BUT WITH YOUR DAUGHTERS....YOU SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THAT MAN BECAUSE YOU INVADED HIS PRIVACY....

Welcome @angycleo! Did you by any chance find us via the Daily Mail? Just a wild guess GrinGrin

angycleo · 03/12/2019 13:46

IF A MAN GOES INTO THE WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOM HE IS ACUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT....SO,BIG MOUTH WOMAN....YOU WENT INTO THE MEN'S LOCKER ROOM....NOT JUST THAT,BUT WITH YOUR DAUGHTERS....YOU SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THAT MAN BECAUSE YOU INVADED HIS PRIVACY....

TriangularRatbag · 03/12/2019 10:39

@Zippy1510
As it became evident I wasn’t going anywhere she then proceeded to drop her pants and show me her fat arse!
GrinGrin

Zippy1510 · 03/12/2019 08:05

I love this thread. I can’t stop cracking up at the thought of how it would go if a man had written it. “I was taking my daughter to a swimming lesson at school but arrived early, with 30 minutes or so to kill I decided to spend some time in the women’s changing room as the pool irritates my asthma. The men’s was also available but very crowded and not to my liking. As I sat in the women’s changing room a lady came in with her children to get herself and her children changed. As it became evident I wasn’t going anywhere she then proceeded to drop her pants and show me her fat arse! As I remained in my viewing position I noticed that in an attempt to position herself away from me she had created a situation where if any children had been unexpectedly pushed into the room they would have walked straight into her fanny! Clearly she was behaving inappropriately. AIBU?

Beakerguy · 02/12/2019 22:04

HE was in the MALE changing room, People get naked in changing rooms - She should NOT have been in the MALE changing room.

Beakerguy · 02/12/2019 22:00

So the woman who took her son into the MALE changing rooms was shocked to see a grown man changing and dropping his shorts? Shock The woman has a son - she has seen (and felt) a male 'member' before. Grin If her son was so YOUNG, why did she not take him into the female changing rooms - like the father took his girls into the male rooms? I can just hear her rant if he had gone with his girls into the female changing rooms and dropped his pants there too. Suck it up (not literally of course) woman; YOU were in the WRONG place.

JolieOBrien · 02/12/2019 20:17

@Funinthesun1

I would never be in a female dressing room because it does not appeal to me ... but if I were I would scream loudly because men should not be in a female dressing room and I would think they were probably a pervert or a peeping tom etc. Women can get away with stuff unlike poor men Wink

Darbs76 · 02/12/2019 20:13

It’s a changing room. People get changed in them. End of

Funinthesun1 · 02/12/2019 19:27

As a male, can I ask this? What would your reaction be if you were naked in the female dressing room, when a man walked in with his children? Further, how would you react if said man then went on line to describe his impression of your bare bum to the whole world? You have no right to enter the male shed, no right to complain if you do, no right to stare at naked men in there, and no right to broadcast what you saw.

jillowarriorqueen · 02/12/2019 15:32

@wendywoopywoo222

Not in a million years. I thought she was in a unisex area with lots of available cubicles when I posted first. Why would a grown woman go into the mens' in the first place? Last place I'd want to go. I'd rather take my chances in the busy one than end up seeing random penises, thank you.

wendywoopywoo222 · 02/12/2019 15:25

@jillowarriorqueen

I presume you wouldn't be taking your daughters into the gents changing rooms though which is where the op was sat being offended.

jillowarriorqueen · 02/12/2019 15:17

So to clarify. YABU for going into the mens' changing room and then complaining about men being in there, and furthermore being mean about his bum. You left out the important detail that YOU were in the wrong place in your OP. Naughty of you. Not all of us have time to read 32 pages to find out the tiny but significant details, you know.

But then, I suspect you knew that when you posted. Wink