To propose a banning of the term 'gym bunny'

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1. It's sexist
2. It's belittling
3. No woman should be stopped from exercising by crap like this.

I call myself a gym bunny and also men who go to the gym a lot.

And what is a bunny. At the gym? Just balls

Oh well. There you are then people like it.

Then I've been using it wrong. I thought it applied to man or woman.

Also, I don't think it's derogatory. It simply means, to me, a person who goes to the gym often.

Yabu because its not sexist or belittling. Some people might use it as a derogatory term. That doesn't mean it is a derogatory term, just means people are douches.

I am a gym bunny, my friends (both male and female) are all gym bunnies. No person has ever been put off going to the gym because someone uses the term gym bunny. I can't imagine any regular gym goer would refuse to go because of the term.

YANBU. What does it even mean? Why a bunny not a kitten or piglet or foal or whatever.

YABU; I think it's aspirational. I've always wanted to be a toned, lycra-clad hottie with a bouncy high pony tail, the sort who stands in the front row of the class getting all the moves right.

YABU. If you think it's an insult, that says more about you than the people using it IMO.

Gym bunnies are usually quite happy with their lifestyle choices.

Why is it sexist? It is used to refer to men too.

Why is it belittling? It conveys a sense of someone with loads of energy who loves going to the gym.

Why would it stop anyone going to the gym? It's a term that refers to a person who goes to the gym a lot, that's it. Sounds like you are reading a lot into it which isn't actually there for mots people.

I don't like it either, I'd put it in the same category as yummymummy and besties used by slightly self congratulatory people to describe themselves and their friends. Maybe that's just because all the people I've heard use it are smug twats though.

Quite right.

James Rabbit is the proper term.

I've always seen it as mildly derisive, bunny sort of alludes to 'bunny girl' ie someone cute and vacuous who is there to sexually titillate men.

I am a beast in the gym
grr

I've only ever heard it applied to women, and think it is a bit belittling - like chick, or bird, just for girls- and maybe it implies you don't have an outside life- but not awful. I wouldn't mind looking like my mental image of a gym bunny,but if I did, I don't think id like to be called one!

I would like to be a Gym Bunny all bouncy, perfect co-ordination and so happy that the exercise makes them giddy.

In reality I am the Ape at the back going in the wrong direction and stumbling about trying to catch up.

I wish I was a gym bunny. Sighs

I always assumed the bunny bit was more Duracell than Playboy.

Ugggh suzannecanthecan, I can't bear to click that link, the still alone will give me nightmares tonight, that thing looks more disturbing than Donnie Darko.

I think this one is better though

Yabu, stop trying so very hard to be offended.

It's the Duracell bunny that keeps on going, male and female and not derogatory
People here seen to look for offence

I also always pictured a Duracell bunny - fit, powering on, not getting tired, smiling.

Basically everything I wouldn't be if I went to the gym --except the pink face—

Oops, strikethrough fail!

trying very hard? Really?!

I've never heard it used derogatorily- it's usually used to refer to people you feel a bit inferior to. Like "whippet" for fast skinny runners.
I've only ever heard it in the context of - "omg that class was so hard it was all the gym bunnies and I couldn't keep up!" Or similar.