To find the gym attire of some women completely inappropriate?

[Apolo90]

I went to the gym with a work colleague after work; it’s the first time I’ve been to that particular one.

I was taken aback by the number of women wearing either the tightest leggings imaginable, barely there sports bra’s and/or shorts which wouldn’t look out of place on the beach they were that sparse.

Is this really appropriate? I’m far from a prude but I like to exercise without being forced to stare at someone’s bottom squeezed into impossibly tight clothing.

Maybe I’m just getting old.

I hadn't realised my lycra running tights and tight gym vest was me trying to be sexual. How have I been wearing the same things to the gym for years and not realised that it offends the Mary Whitehouse's of the gym!

I agree, OP.

I don't like sexualised clothing on any gender. Keep it for your sexual partners, preferably in private!

You don't have to wear baggy t-shirts - which some pps are suggesting is the only alternative to scrunch-bum etc etc. There is a happy medium, but guess what - I don't want to see your bum-crack defined in microscopic detail (or your vulva either, or your genitals, if you're a man). Sorry if that upsets some people but OP asked for opinions.

I was watching Landscape Artist of the Year (surely a sexualised-clothing-free zone!) and one of the artists had a top cut so incredibly low it just missed her nips. God knows where Stephen Mangan managed to rest his eyes. What were this woman's thought processes, when she got up that morning, I wonder? "I know - I'll put my breasts on show today for the benefit of everyone!" No, just no. Embarrassing and vulgar.

I do not care a fig if you think I'm a prude, so there.

This argument makes me laugh.

People who dress in a sexualised way are just gagging for attention. To claim that we should all avert our eyes is ridiculous. I'm sometimes rendered speechless by the eye-boggling sights I've been subjected to over the years!!

At my kids' school fair there were two women who'd just had tattoos on their lower backs. These were weeping and sore, and they were wearing low-rise jeans with thongs on show. The thongs were red nylon and were rubbing the weeping tats. I felt nauseous.

Their choice and freedom to dress like that - my freedom to feel queasy.

This thread is absolutely depressing, and it's no wonder we have girls with issues and boys who think any woman is theirs to do what they want with because the girl wore a too tight top, or had low cut tops or skin tight clothes on. No wonder we have issues with rapes and domestic abuse being reported.

Because you can see from this thread even women think of some women in a derogatory manner. Gagging for attention is just one example. They'd make the Taliban happy!

Because you can see from this thread even women think of some women in a derogatory manner. Gagging for attention is just one example. They'd make the Taliban happy!

A strange comment.

I find all genders sporting sexualised clothing unpleasant. Budgie-smugglers make me cringe as much as scrunch-bum (ugh -I can hardly bear to type those words!) leggings.

And are you really suggesting that women shouldn't criticise women...because they're women? Feminism isn't about censoring criticism because of someone's gender. I think you'll find that people who cringe at overtly-sexual clothing cringe at everyone who wears it.

I suppose it comes down to how you see sex. For me it's a private and very intimate thing, not something I want to think about when I'm eating, doing the shopping or at the gym, or parade in front of the general public. The sort of clothing OP refers to is all about drawing attention to erogenous zones in an increasingly extreme way for everyone, not just their sexual partner. It's all about degree: you can wear a tight top or leggings - but some garments take it to another level.

I dare you to ask someone who wears scrunch-bum just why they choose to do so. I wonder what they'd say, if they were honest? "I love that cheese-wire feeling up my crack, me!' Hmm.

So you “don’t care a fig” that others are judging you but think it’s OK to judge others? Why should they care a fig?

People can wear what they want.
People can look if they want.

YTA - sorry, people can wear what they want, it's their bodies, your discomfort and judgement is yours to figure out

I go to the gym 4 times a week (different gyms within the chain) and I've never seen (or noticed) someone dressed in a way that has been shocking.

I personally wear gym leggings, a sports bra and a gym t-shirt. I once wore my slightly loose joggers and the material kept getting in the way. Gym leggings are lycra so they don't trap the heat in the same way as well.

I don't give a flying fuck if the sight of me in my lycra leggings upsets someone.

Genuinely, if you can't cope with gym outfits, don't go to the gym. I can't think of any other example of places where people feel so entitled to critique thoroughly appropriate clothing because they don't like the shape of the person underneath.

Actually, can someone please share an image of what they consider to be inappropriate?

Attached is one of the first photos that appear on Google images if I search for women's gym clothes. Are you saying that gym clothes aren't appropriate for....the gym?

Try searching tiktok or instagram?

I am not making a judgment on this outfit, but you can see it is markedly different to your picture.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF2ql1Gslgb/?igsh=MTludmUyZmszNDB0eg==

This outfit will get more likes and replies than the one you posted, which turns into a revenue stream. It’s the same story as always. Men pay, and women change behaviour accordingly.

I personally don’t like the look of those leggings that look as if they are designed to give the wearer a permanent wedgie, but I confine my thoughts to “I hope the wearer isn’t too uncomfortable!”
Each to their own…

I wouldn't wear that or the short-shorts a few posts up to the gym, largely because I don't like having something up my crack, but nor would I have a conniption on seeing it. I wear booty shorts to work out sometimes when it's really hot, as do a lot of Crossfitters. If other people are comfortable and happy working out in those outfits, what's it to me? It wouldn't even be more than a passing thought.

Why? Is it inappropriate to wear a bikini by the beach? What is it about the gym environment that makes some people so inclined towards clutching their pearls?

At the beach are you repeatedly bending over, squatting and lunging within spitting distance of others?
No. Thought not.

Of course you are. People bend over to pick children up, apply sunscreen, put towels down - multiple reasons!
In a bikini much less is left to the imagination but it doesn’t (and shouldn’t) stop people from wearing them and all the people who ‘don’t know where to look’ at the gym seem to manage perfectly well at the pool or on holiday. Or do you walk around the pool with your hands over your eyes just incase someone bends over?

No one in the gym go to wears anything like that I the last two photos posted.

I have seen scrunch bum/contour leggings on students around where I work, but not in the gym. They're not to my taste but it wouldn't offend me.

I remember, the only time I thought someone was wearing inappropriate clothing was when I saw a girl using the leg press wearing Crocs. Now that looked hazardous to me!

If you're moving around much and/or wrangling small kids, yes, you're pretty likely to be making those movements.

Also a guy in skintight leggings just ran past me in the park. I wouldn't even have noticed normally.

MN is hilarious because if there is ever a woman saying on a thread that she feels insecure wearing a bikini on holiday there will be an army of people telling her to wear what she likes/no one gives a shit what she’s wearing at the pool etc. But sadly, judging by this thread there are a lot of women wandering around judging womens’ attire with a cats bum mouth 🙄🙄

That's what most of the young women wear at the one I go to or some have a vest or t-shirt as I do. Nothing wrong with that at all.

I don't notice or care much what others wear in the gym.

Most leggings are tight, surely that the point? Otherwise they are jogging bottoms.

It makes sense to not wear lots if you are working out.

I usually wear leggings, and a sports top. You can see my shoulders in it. During classes I might just wear leggings and a sports bra top. Seeing a bit of midriff is not scandalous

Completely agree with him.

At my university gym 30 years ago there was one guy who was a total creep who would stare at my crotch the whole time I was on the hip adductor/abductor machine - wouldn't have mattered what I wore, he was a creep.

Im prepared to bet a reasonably large sum that most people criticising these people’s gym attire haven’t set foot in one this side of never.

I wear the same as you. I find the idea of other people judging me far more revolting than what everyone else is wearing.