A little shook after a young woman got thrown out of my gym for hurling a homophobic slur at a guy
I'll preface this by saying that I live in a blue state, but have to admit: over the past two years, the area's gym cultures have drawn in a lot of people who very loudly want you know that they're not about any of that. Being that I go to a more serious gym, you get a lot of big roided up guys and young women in there who think they're tough shit. I kinda just keep my head down and headphones when I'm there.
Yesterday, there was an incident though involving a younger guy and a younger woman that just made me really disappointed. I guess the guy and his workout partner were waiting for a machine that someone was using. She was also a younger fit woman but she was talking it up with one of the bigger guys nearby. When the person on the machine finished, she tried to cut the two young men in line for the machine, so they weren't having it. She begins spouting about how she's not going to take this from a guy, but one of the guy's flat out told her she was being rude for cutting. She then threatens the guy by saying she'll get "her man" to put him in his place, to which he said go right ahead because he's not worried. She then calls him the homophobic slur that begins with "f."
The young guy went and found the owner of the gym to let him know what happened, and she was apparently thrown out, which is good, but also, what the fuck is going on out there that people (a young woman especially) in gyms feel like they can just go threatening people, calling them offensive words, all over equipment? Why does the gym no longer feel like an escape from the world anymore?