No sir (or madam) I don’t want intimate knowledge of your nether regions through the medium of flesh coloured scrunchbum pants and inappropriate swimwear that clings to your flaccid member ***title edited by MNHQ to correct a typo***

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Totally get that in theory everyone has a right to wear what they wish but even so…I theory I have a right to not have to walk around looking at the floor

Curses. Nether. Not meter.

Maybe a camera in the changing room with AI screening. If your but is too large and flabby a pincer could down from the ceiling Wallace and Gromit style and pluck away the item to be sent back to the shop floor.

I glanced at this & thought that you were saying a 'pincher', like if your bottom isn't peachy enough then you get repeatedly pinched until you cover yourself up in something larger

I hate to say it, but you have posted about it on a public forum...

I’m going to deconstruct this:

’I hate to say it’. Do you? Do you really? Because if you do I’d suggest you don’t bother. It’s just not worth it. Hate is such a strong emotion. Life is too short and I don’t want to cause anyone real pain. It’s not kind.

‘you have posted about it on a public forum’. Yes. For entertainment. For me. To see people’s reactions and understand if I am an outlier in terms of my views on this particular subject.

Isn’t that why most people post on AIBU? To see if they BU?

Great article by Gad Saad about the ‘Camel Toe’ Phenomena on X today which might tickle you OP!

Of course not. I was being jocular.

But you said it wasn't for anyone else's entertainment. Au contraire - it's clearly providing entertainment for plenty of people on a Sunday evening.

And fwiw, imo YANBU - I hate leisurewear that makes the wearer look like they've forgotten to put their pants on. It's - to use a MN hated word - utterly cringe.

Agree with you OP. Women in scrunch bum leggings look utterly revolting. Why do they choose to make themselves look so dire? So cheap and tacky!

I think anyone who lives on planet earth would know that a straight woman would never buy a magazine to look at dicks

Nope. I mean why bother parting with cash, plenty of men will whip their dicks out whenever & quite frankly would shag almost anything given a chance. One needn't pay.

Well, once upon a time I might have paid to see Brad Pitt in the nude..

People should wear what they feel comfortable in.
I went for a nice long walk today and was passed by several runners. I have formed a theory that there are many people who once forgot their gym kit and had to do PE in their vest and knickers, who thought “yay this is brilliant! I’m going to do this all the time! So liberate, much breezy”

Thank god. I go to the Church of Gym - Same thing. A lot of them are kids, barely into their 16's. I've never seen so many naked people in my life. They can't go naked, so they'll just wear flesh coloured, crotch/arse eating clothing and nipple cover-ups tied loosely around the neck. Therefore, the bare minimum with clothing.

Make it make sense. I quite like my breasts and butt - My husband especially likes them, before anyone comes at me for jealousy and looking in the wrong direction.

Just..why? Why do you wear these booty-bonanza leggings? Is your arse hungry? Is that it? Leggings are calorie free? Tops are optional?

The machine I was on a dew days ago put me direct in the line of sight for a young girl (I was there first!) Who had a pair of lycra knickers on (shorts! But you get my point) and a nipple cover-up tied around her neck. Her machine put her torso above my eyeline. Every time she did her rep...I saw everything from the side. There were lurid roid-heads, eyeing her up. I feel it made her vulnerable...I have children of my own. Absolutely no way would I allow them out of the house like that. Clothing in public, is a law for a reason . There is a time and place, and the gym is not a fashion run way, or a Saturday night at the club. I don't want to see it. I don't want to interrupt my reps and move away elsewhere, so I am not forced into this spectacle of a view.

I have a right as a woman to not be made to feel uncomfortable.

This is a wind up right

I always wonder about those people who say 'just don't look' when others wear things that are deliberately (unnecessarily) designed to draw the eye to a body part, as though it solves the problem.

Surely by that logic, a man flashing an erect penis shouldn't be an issue - just don't look!

Does anyone have a right not to be made to feel uncomfortable though? I don't see how that would work.

I think its a slippery slope when you advocate policing what women wear in accordance with your comfort level, and framing your right to comfort ahead of their freedom of choice.
After all, there are people uncomfortable with women having their heads, legs and arms uncovered. Do they have 'the right' to not be uncomfortable in public spaces too? And before you say, it's not the same, I'm asking about the principle, not an arbitrary line based on subjective ideas of propriety.

I have a right as a woman to not be made to feel uncomfortable.

Well, in terms of aggressive or threatening or intimidating behaviour, of course. As a general catch-all rule for any discomfort including what other women choose to wear... no. Of course you don't have the right never to encounter something in public that offends you (which is what this discomfort is). Why would you think that?

Let it all hang out!

Yukk!!!!

We used to pull the swimsuits down at the back to cover the bum, now the more of it on show the better,apparently. And quite a lot of the front. Oh well,crack on,I guess..

The nature of gyms is that flesh is on display.

Just remember the origin of the word gymnasium

late 16th century: via Latin from Greek gumnasion, from gumnazein ‘exercise naked’, from gumnos ‘naked’.

We could go back to that I suppose

As to 'I have a right not to feel uncomfortable'

Absolute bunkum - where did you get this idea from?

There is no legal right, no moral right, nothing that says you have the right not to feel uncomfortable. Discomfort is part of life.

I especial dislike the inference that to achieve that everyone else must change their own comfort level so that yours is prioritised.

You'd be prepared to defend this view if you saw a man in a jockstrap in a supermarket greengrocery aisle?

I'm fairly sure supermarkets have rules of entry which would prohibit this.

Many establishments can and do refuse entry in relation to not having a shirt on etc.

Also, being naked isn't necessarily illegal in the UK - unless the intent to cause alarm, distress or outrage public decency.

It's about intent, which is why flashing is different - because the intent is to cause distress, whereas the naked cycling event is not intended to do so.

I was questioning your position on rights, rather than looking fir guidance on what people are allowed to wear in supermarkets.

Has this actually happened?

And is it comparable to tight and skimpy gymwear in an actual gym?

My answer to your question on rights is.... depends on his intent