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.
Icky old granny!
My experience is that all the middle and high school girls are covering up or know how to "deck change" in the locker room. They literally put their suit on first and then take off the undergarments. My kid thinks its bizarre when I walk around au natural in the locker room. I don't think it's a self image issue ... just their own course of conduct ... for which I am clueless of the genesis.
A few nights ago I was in the locker room, getting dressed after my shower. I overheard an interesting/saddening exchange. A grandmother was there with her granddaughters, and was chiding them to cover up their bodies as they moved from the shower stall to the changing stall, a distance of about 10 feet.
"Kids today," she complained to me. "No modesty."
"Modesty?" I asked. "It's a locker room. What's the harm?"
"I was raised to keep covered up," she replied. "I hated the locker room. I thought everyone was looking at me."
"Uh-huh. So you want to pass that along to your granddaughters? There's nothing wrong with our bodies, and there's nothing to be ashamed of."
She looked at me like I'd spoken to her in Klingon (with no subtitles) or something, and walked away to continue giving her girls a solid foundation in negative self-image.
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There are a couple old guys at the gym I go to who don't seem to use towels. They blowdry everything. It's pretty jarring early in the morning to walk into the locker room and see someone blowdrying his feet. Or his undercarriage. :confused: :censor: :bolt:
As many smilies as this forum has available, there are none sufficient to express my dismay at the post above. I understand immodesty of course, but beyond a certain point it becomes exhibitionism.
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I suppose it's appropriate that the women ran screaming the first time I posted in this thread. :bliss:
I suppose it's appropriate that the women ran screaming the first time I posted in this thread. :bliss:
I know a way to make Geek run screaming ... The other day I saw a woman, not showering, but instead washing her feet in the sink. Ew, gross. :afraid:
That is pretty sick!
I witnessed a girl at the Indiana HS State Meet this week-end wipe her feet and starting block off with her small towel before her race. After the race she hopped out and wiped her face with the same towel. SICK FLOOR FUNGI ON THE FACE!!!! :confused:
Icky old granny!
My experience is that all the middle and high school girls are covering up or know how to "deck change" in the locker room. They literally put their suit on first and then take off the undergarments. My kid thinks its bizarre when I walk around au natural in the locker room. I don't think it's a self image issue ... just their own course of conduct ... for which I am clueless of the genesis.
some of the younger swimmers and a couple masters deck change in the locker room
I don't get it
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This strikes me as bizarre as well. I have seen the same phenomenon, usually in swimmers in their 20s and younger.
You would think that the generation that invented rainbow parties, green M&M-fueled sorority house orgies, and the kind of thong undies that could quite possible cause the fabric equivalent of a paper cut to the perineal regions, well, you would think such a generation would not be quite so easily embarrassed!
Then again, maybe it happens most when guys like me wander into the girls locker room by mistake.
Call that Hypothesis #2.
This strikes me as bizarre as well. I have seen the same phenomenon, usually in swimmers in their 20s and younger.
You would think that the generation that invented rainbow parties, green M&M-fueled sorority house orgies, and the kind of thong undies that could quite possible cause the fabric equivalent of a paper cut to the perineal regions, well, you would think such a generation would not be quite so easily embarrassed!
Then again, maybe it happens most when guys like me wander into the girls locker room by mistake.
Call that Hypothesis #2.
I don't get it either. Padded bras, thongs, return of the mini dress, skin tight tees and the new Nike cut out skimpy tanks for the pool ... But god forbid someone sees skin in the locker room. Masters swimming chicks are much less uptight.
