A speaker argues that gym dress codes unfairly sexualize women's bodies by restricting midriffs and shoulders while men face no equivalent rules. He distinguishes between noticing someone's body and deliberately ogling or commenting, saying the latter is a choice, not an involuntary reaction.
What cannot be exposed on a woman's outfit if she's in the gym? Go ahead, raise your hand. I hear some people saying it. Midriff. Midriff. What else? This one's way more subtle. Shoulders. Now, should that be sexualized? Seriously, should shoulders be sexualized, yes or no? No, that should not be sexualized. So, if a gender walks into a gym and notes, wait, the rules are already sexualizing me before I even step foot in here. step into this place in a way that I wouldn't expect to be sexualized, we've got to understand that has an impact on people, right? And that has comments. Now, if a— let's say that a person who's attracted to women notices a woman's body, that's called natural. It is. When people go, nobody should be able to notice, that's natural. But when I choose to ogle, comment, make jokes, now I'm making choices that are based on that. That's beyond natural. That's a choice I'm making. Thank you.
