Posted on 10/02/2015 8:48:26 AM PDT by rightistight
Amy Roe, writing for the Guardian, "hustled" out of a Starbucks after another woman asked her about physical activity.
According to Roe, she went to a Starbucks after running for 12 miles. Roe explains that she was sweating after the run and was approached by another woman in the coffee shop.
“You look like you just did a class,” the woman said, smiling. “Or swimming?” she added.
Roe responded, “Um, running. I just sweat a lot.”
Ms. Roe then writes that in her ensuing embarrassment, she "took the paper cup of drip coffee and hustled past the condiment bar. Screw the half-and-half; I’d drink it black."
She continues, "Once safely inside my car, I threw off my damp running cap and flipped up the hood of my sweatshirt in embarrassment. I wanted to dive deep into that Lululemon Scuba and never come back up for air."
"I’d been sweat-shamed," Roe concludes. "Sweat-shaming is when someone points out your sweatiness as a way to signal disapproval. Like its counterparts, slut-shaming and fat-shaming, sweat-shaming is aimed mainly at women, who are actually not supposed to sweat at all."
She then writes, "We have been hiding this natural bodily function so long we have no idea how much a “normal” woman sweats – if there is such a thing – much the same way many men have no idea how much make-up it takes to produce “natural” beauty."
This weekend, Roe will not be "sweat-shamed." She writes, "I’ve got another long run this weekend and afterward, I’m going to sit down with my coffee, all sweaty and transgressive."
Roe concludes, "The stigmas surrounding women’s bodies are powerful, but they’re no match for how powerful I feel after running."
Lady: Get Over It. Get A Life.
Man or woman, you don't go into a shared and usually cramped public space and sweat on the furniture and impose your stink on others.
Sheesh. . .
wtf I swear to G-D that we are becoming a bunch of weak silly jerks. Ask a simple question and someone gets there panties in a bunch and takes it to the max.
Yes, I think you said it all. I didn’t even think the other woman was being hostile - just curious or just casually chatting. What a self-obsessed paranoid.
All my women are sweaty after...
Never mind.
I think she's actually bragging in print about running 12 miles. Wonder who she's trying to impress?
Its called a shower. One usually takes one after exercise before imposing oneself on the public.
Hey Sweaty Betty, if you were so bad that people were commenting, perhaps you should not be foisting your smelly self on other patrons who wish to enjoy their coffee experience. Being shamed for doing something shameful is a good thing.
I sweat a lot when I run, possibly because I often run when it is 90+ degrees out. But I NEVER go to a store immediately afterward.
Sweat shaming is appropriate. In many cases, ‘body shaming’ and ‘gender shaming’ and ‘other shaming’ is appropriate too. If you don’t want to be ‘shamed’, don’t act or be deserving of it.
Get Over It. Get A Life.
and get a job.
Get Over It. Get A Life.
and get a job.
The solution: Get some personal publicity...write something loud.
But I always shower before going out in public. Not because I am ashamed, but because it's common sense. It's the courteous thing to do.
I think this lady is just after the attention. And not only did the comment at Starbucks fulfill her wish, getting to write about it doubled her pleasure.
I shoe horses. After I have been burning shoes on horses feet, I do not go into restaurants. I also cowboy, and after branding or doctoring, I do not go into public places.
This woman is nuts. So a doctor or EMT should go into Starbucks all blood encrusted?
There was a time when people dressed to enter the public sphere. They didn’t go to the grocery store in their pajamas, they did not wear clownishly colored baggy clothes, adults did not dress like adolescents, people wore leather foot wear not shower shoes or unlaced athletic shoes, they did not idolize athletes or teams by dressing as a team mascot, they did not cover themselves like some tribal member in tattoos and piercings, they did not dress overly suggestive or go out practically naked.
People have become infantile and wish to make a spectacles of themselves. They haven’t a care for others as is evident by their dress and behavior. These signs are a clear indication they have no respect for others and very little respect for themselves. On the other hand, I do love how people clearly label themselves.
A better idea: Don’t stop into Starbucks when you stink to high heaven, or get used to the idea that people are going to comment on your personal humidity.
Did she run out of things to write about because this topic is ridiculous.
I know right.
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