A Redditor recently shared a conundrum he’d recently faced. He was at the gym and noticed that a woman was using the squat rack.
“I briefly noticed that her leggings are see-thru and when she bends down in her squats you can easily tell she’s also not wearing underwear,” he wrote. “That’s not my business, that’s her choice. But it made me uncomfortable to take a rack that was kinda behind her.”
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He waited for her to finish, then did his own workout. He was checking his phone throughout to keep track of his progress.
This is when the trouble started.
“What the [expletive] are you doing? [Expletive] perv!”
After OP finished his third set, the woman got angry at him because she thought he was taking pictures of her. She wanted to look through his phone to make sure, and the altercation got escalated to gym management.
He didn’t want to show his phone to a gym employee.
This is absolutely his right. “I have my own uncensored pics in there, plus those of my girlfriend,” he explained.
For what it’s worth, when he got home and told his girlfriend, she said he should have just shown his phone.
Still, he had a problem with it. “I get that someone wouldn’t want someone taking pics of them, but violating my privacy to prove I wasn’t taking pics of you crosses a line for me,” he wrote.
He was vindicated by gym management, who later checked security footage and confirmed his phone was never angled in her direction. The woman had also been creeped on before, which helps explain her reaction.
Was he in the right?
Most commenters agreed that he wasn’t the jerk in this situation. Most also agreed that the woman in the gym wasn’t a jerk, either.
But at least one commenter took issue with OP’s language: “Why did we need to know the girl wasn’t wearing underwear? That has zero to do with the story unless you’re trying to shame her.”
The slut shamers were out in full effect.
The post was ostensibly about whether OP was in the wrong, but the conversation devolved into commenters saying the woman at the gym was looking for attention by wearing leggings.
At least the situation was resolved.
“I’m not a woman, but even I can see why she reacted why she did. It is basic safety,” wrote one commenter. “OP was in a no-win situation here, but I can also see it from [the woman’s] side, especially is she has had a creeper before.
What do you think?
You’ll want to check out the full thread to check out some interesting arguments. Then, let us know what you think in the comments below!
