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    I’m not having gay sex? I’m hiding my penis safely inside this Christian man’s asshole so that women can’t get to it unless they are my wife.

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      Gyms are becoming breeding grounds for white supremacists and the proud boys. Probably more about indoctrination than learning.

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        What’s funny is they complain about gender change hormones but shoot tons of testosterone in their thighs because they are too afraid to become feminine.

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        The lead tainted protein powder doesnt help, im sure.

        We are all just one stroke or lead poisoning away from be racist assholes.

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      They already know and being in that environment will only make their hatred, which is projected as hatred of lgbtq+ but is actually self hatred, even stronger.

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    I seem to recall that the very same passage in their Bible that condemns lust as thoughtcrime also prescribes a remedy—and it’s to gouge out your own leering eyes, not bar women from public spaces.

    You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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      Thanks for the bible verse, the next time I get asked why I’m not religious, I’ll use “I don’t want to gouge out my own eyes” as the reason. I also don’t want to whip slaves, but I think they removed that after the old testament

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        God approves and disapproves of slavery in both the new testament and old testament. Also in matthew 5:17-20 Jesus very clearly states that the old testament is to be followed. So even if the new testament did not include what seems to be approval of slavery, it would still not matter. But the bible also disapproves of slavery. If you want a whole lot of stuff you can quote on what you do not want to do, I would suggest looking up the skeptics annotated bible. They make some great collections.

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          Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.

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          the bible offers regulations for slavery but i can’t find any verse prohibiting all forms of slavery the closest is Exodus 21:16 which just says male slaves are wrong

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      not bar women from public spaces.

      This isn’t barring women from public places, it’s a private establishment for men only. I think people are mainly upset about it because of how they pitched it.

      If they just pitched it as a men only gym without any other reason, this probably wouldn’t be post worthy.

      There are plenty of women only gyms within a 30 minute drive of where I used to live (a more metro area). Nothing to care about.

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    It’s sad that seeking out like minded people who share your values and hobbies is to be mocked. Men go, create a gym for other guys to enjoy a space where they can work on themselves and not to oggle women is a bad thing?

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      It’s worrying that these people need a separate gym because they are unable to control their urges. Seems like they have bigger problems they should be working on tbh.

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          So what do they do once they are outside of the “safe” gym? If you need a separate workout space because women are around you in gym clothes then you’re going to struggle a lot in the rest of your life. Do they need separate beaches, swimming pools, have to stay at home during the summer months?

          I’d suggest counselling with a professional would be better use of their time.

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            For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight. A gym can be a tough place to ignore it. It’s not hard to understand some people like some time in a place where people understand their struggles and can blow off steam without feeling judged.

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              For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight.

              That line of thinking is what leads to burquas being mandatory in some countries.

              Control yourself, not other people.

              And if you can’t, then get proper help (not a preacher), don’t just mask the problem.

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              So what do they do about summertime, beaches, or swimming pools? How does this lust manifest itself? They have to go over and talk to the women in the gym and say inappropriate things?

              I get these men have issues with their ability to control themselves, I’m suggesting that a private gym isn’t the solution given how many other times in their life they will be “tested”. And why is this specific to religious people? What’s religion doing to them that getting them this sexually frustrated they can’t share a gym?

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              For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight.

              For a lot of atheists too, ayyyyyyyyyy (eggplant emoji eggplant emoji eggplant emoji)

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          Teaching my kids how to act normal by taking them to MAN GYM where half the people there are taking steroids to bulk up and the other half don’t know how to talk about anything but GETTING PUMPED

          To promote more serious discussion in shitpost: One of the problems of gender separated facilities is it makes everything more complicated for parents like that guy that got arrested for taking his daughters into a women’s restroom.

          There’s a lot to be said about ‘safe spaces’ but imo those spaces should not include any infrastructure like gym equipment, pools, toilets, operating rooms etc. It makes a lot of sense to separate rooms where people might be disclosing addresses, storing clothing or chatting but its maybe less necessary to separate spaces where toilets and gym equipment exist.

          This is why pools are generally co-ed but the changing rooms are usually gender segregated and its often less about protecting people and more about creating less spaces for like a couple to have consensual sex in public.

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      The idea women are holding these dorks back from exercising is so dumb to me. Humans spent like 80,000 years using unsegregated toilets. But now in the year of our lord 2026 we need to stock two gyms with identical, redudnant exercise equipment because what if dudes are distracted?

      At least have the intellectual decency of citing a research paper before demanding a reallocation of society’s gym equipment over what is almost certainly a socialization problem by some of the most superstitious people in society.

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      Hell, it doesn’t even need to be able “resisting urges”. I’d be more behind a guys-only gym where I’m less likely to end up in some random chick’s social media session.

      Yes, guys do the social media crap too but at least in my experience they tend towards places that don’t involve broadcasting everyone else (except maybe the dudes with the creep glasses, fuck them). I’m tired of having to dodge some glam-girl who has decided to make the beach, park, gym or whatever her personal studio and including me or my kids as unwilling participants in their narcissism.

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    Aside from all the gay references here this is a real two edged sword. On one hand, get all these right wing misogynist asshats away from women in gyms. Otoh, this is just another recruiting ground and echo chamber for right wing redpill incel BS.

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      Can confirm.

      I went to a dudebro gym. It was a fucking incel hive mind.

      Half the encouragement was to “bang any bitch you want” and the other half was about reclaiming masculinity.

      One guy kept talking about “fighting for our right for survival” like motherfucker, you’re a 6ft white dude. Chill.

      If the gym doesn’t have a BLM/LGBT flag and a bunch of diversity, I don’t join.

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        One guy kept talking about “fighting for our right for survival” like motherfucker, you’re a 6ft white dude. Chill.

        The victim complex is real with these people. An ex’s brother-in-law is a hardcore right-winger and his wifi password was donttre@donme. Dude’s a white small town EC doc, and also a small business owner just so his practically-stay-at-home-mom wife has something to do instead of sitting around their 3-story house bored while their 3 blonde haired daughters are at private school. The type of person being least tread on

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        I’m fighting for my right for survival everyday, because I’m five fucking five and some of you tall fuckers like to put what I’m looking for above my eyesight. Seriously I’m glad my proportions are mildly fucked since I ended up with weirdly lanky arms so I can at least reach shit. Seriously who puts the top ramen on the aisle top shelf, that’s where the fucken weird ass Korean burn your asshole like your getting fucked by Ghost Rider shit is supposed to go.

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      men aren’t even allowed to work out together without having their sexuality questioned. god forbid we actually become–gasp–friends with each other! and if that happens, it’s apparently only to concoct right-wing plots and figure out clever ways to harass women.

      meanwhile, a women’s only space is supposedly heaven on earth, even though they’ll all be gossiping and backstabbing each other for no reason.

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        Ok. you blatantly disregarded the context of this post in order to make it some gender-war post about bros who just wanna be bros. That’s stupid.

        The title is, just in case you can’t read:

        Men-Only Gyms Trying To Protect Christian Men From Lust Get Brutally Ridiculed

        So we are OBVIOUSLY not discussing workout buddies, or gym friendships, or even y’know, if gay dudes like going to the gym, which nobody is saying can’t happen. But you went and redpilled it as a war against men because women have spaces away from men exactly because of the kind of men in the article.

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        Ahem. From the article:

        This is what Hambrecht and Parsons are doing with their male-only gyms. They’re spreading conspiracies about morality and traditional marriage that cast women as dangerous. They’re promoting men rising up as warrior-kings who are ready to fight evil, and they’re getting rid of women who they claim are ruining everything.

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      What I don’t get is, the space addressing “censorship in media” is often ultra conservative. How on earth does that gooner crowd reconcile with spaces that are “Anti-sexuality”?