Here's a thread for the ladies to discuss anything that relates to women and swimming. For example, feel free to discuss how disgustingly ugly fastskins are, how the "curse" can kill a meet, how suits don't fit, how swimming wrecks your hair, how hormones unhinge you, etc.
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Funny the differences in the generations. I went on a trip with my grandmother at 13 and we shared a hotel room. When I went into the bathroom to change, my grandmother gave me a big lecture about being too modest. She considered extreme modesty a character flaw. My other grandmother thought I wore too much make-up and told me that only the very insecure felt the need to wear heavy make-up. Their generation went through the Depression and WW II, so guess they figured out there were more important things to worry about.
Couldn't resist visiting this thread.
One of my writers goes to the same gym, and she complains about some women walking around naked in the locker room, which seemed utterly bizarre to me. And she's my age.
I asked about it, and she said, "Well, you know, sometimes there are kids in there." So? Like girls don't know what women look like?
In my experience, it's not an issue in men's locker rooms.
I remember one kid who put his towel around his waist and changed like that, and it just seemed very weird. I recognized him as one of the fresh-faced Christian kids who works at the Chik-fil-A, but I have no clue if that background makes any difference.
But like someone else said upthread, if he hadn't done that, I wouldn't have noticed him.
Otherwise, everyone changes out and nobody cares.
Especially the old guys, the Greatest Generation men... they're much more likely to walk to and from the showers with no towel, putz around in the buff, etc. They can't be bothered. And it's not like they're showing off their buff bods or anything.
The one thing I do take exception to, however -- and it always seems to be older fellows doing this -- is using the benches while naked. I mean, can't you put your drawers on first? Or lay down a towel or something?
Funny the differences in the generations. I went on a trip with my grandmother at 13 and we shared a hotel room. When I went into the bathroom to change, my grandmother gave me a big lecture about being too modest. She considered extreme modesty a character flaw. My other grandmother thought I wore too much make-up and told me that only the very insecure felt the need to wear heavy make-up. Their generation went through the Depression and WW II, so guess they figured out there were more important things to worry about.
Couldn't resist visiting this thread.
One of my writers goes to the same gym, and she complains about some women walking around naked in the locker room, which seemed utterly bizarre to me. And she's my age.
I asked about it, and she said, "Well, you know, sometimes there are kids in there." So? Like girls don't know what women look like?
In my experience, it's not an issue in men's locker rooms.
I remember one kid who put his towel around his waist and changed like that, and it just seemed very weird. I recognized him as one of the fresh-faced Christian kids who works at the Chik-fil-A, but I have no clue if that background makes any difference.
But like someone else said upthread, if he hadn't done that, I wouldn't have noticed him.
Otherwise, everyone changes out and nobody cares.
Especially the old guys, the Greatest Generation men... they're much more likely to walk to and from the showers with no towel, putz around in the buff, etc. They can't be bothered. And it's not like they're showing off their buff bods or anything.
The one thing I do take exception to, however -- and it always seems to be older fellows doing this -- is using the benches while naked. I mean, can't you put your drawers on first? Or lay down a towel or something?
