Elisa Mariño
2 min readMar 17, 2022

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But not sweaty. And they should wear make up. The thing is, women working out, aren't there to be looked at. You could look, but that is not the aim we have. We are, you know, training or working out because you want to get fit. So sweating is a given AND wearing make up if you are going to sweat is disgusting. Yet, for some reason, they think that "looking pretty" should take priority over us getting the training we were there to beging with. Do you understand now why it is anoying?

Imagine that you are doing whatever sport you like and someone interrupt you to tell you that you are sweating and that you don't look attractive while sweating, and how do you go weight lifting without combing your hair first! You know, you would look better in a shirt! so why aren't you wearing one?

I imagine that, someday, people would just assume that women at a gym want to practice a sport and don't need to "look their best" so men can oogle. That they would just let us train. And let me be honest, there are gyms where this already happen. So the problem seems to be the men who still expect us to prioritize their oogling over our lives. Sweating is a given when you do a good training.

My example about men thinking that even at a gym, where people go to train and get more fit, women should prioritize looking good for them instead of simply enjoy our training is telling. Tha assumption that pur clothes and looks should be about them and not us and whatever we are going to do, is the problem. And we see similar things wherever women want to wear more comfortable clothes for the day they have ahead.

Examples:

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/17796454-man-complains-about-women-wearing-yoga-pants-in-public.-women-decide-to-parade-around-outside-his-house-in-yoga-pants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94G2J_Nn648

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/8576386/husband-tells-wife-dress-up-arent-talking/

Now tell me, how it is that no one interrupts men's training to tell them that they are looking unflattering clothes?

So it is not just about being judged by our clothes, is about being expected to prioritize our looks. From clothes, to make up, to diet... And most of us are simple fed up. If you want to judge, it is on you. But we can judge in turn. And some of us aren't going to judge on your clothes, but on your actions. And expecting us to chose our clothes based on someoneelse's prefferences is rude. Also many times superficial. Rude and superficial is not a good look in my book. XD

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

Written by Elisa Mariño

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