Me and my sister have taken up indoor rock climbing. We went last night and it was quite. We are quite new to it but my sister i would say is naturally good at it. We picked a route to do and waited as other people were before us.
There was a group of men on the mat just looking at it and discussing it. I go up to do the route, Could only get half way. My sister goes after me and gets to the top bar 1 hold.
As soon as she's off this guy looks at us and struts up to do it. He is obviously taller than us so has some advantage. He completes the route. He jumps off, looks at us both and does a kind of quiet laugh and smirks and then goes back to his buddies and chats to them.
What was the need for it? Basically beating his man chest to say look i can do it and you can't. This kind of behaviour puts us off going.
I would say when we go it's mostly dominated by men in the centre, however there are so many nice men who offer help and encouragement and support. However I've begun to notice that there are a small amount that can't deal with a woman doing better than them. There's a slight undertone.
Aibu to be annoyed