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Gym tells woman to cover up because her ‘toned body’ intimidated others
yahoo.com ^ | March 19, 2014 | Charlene Sakoda

Posted on 03/20/2014 9:55:51 AM PDT by grundle

The Planet Fitness gym in Richmond, California is standing behind their dress code policy after one member claimed that she was told to put a shirt over her intimidatingly toned body.

As reported by KTVU Channel 2, Tiffany Austin was recovering from a car accident and getting back in shape with her first workout at the gym. However, her time exercising was cut short when a Planet Fitness employee stopped her. Austin explained, “She says, you know, ‘Excuse me, we've had some complaints. You're intimidating people with your toned body. So can you put on a shirt?’”

Ms. Austin was wearing a spaghetti strap tank top and capri pants with her midriff exposed, and she doesn’t think her attire was out of line. “I don’t feel like it’s anything crazy, but I mean you tell me if it’s burning your eyes,” Austin said with a laugh. Reportedly she was only told that the gym dress code prohibited wearing string tank tops. The Planet Fitness customer agreed to wear one of the shirts the gym provides patrons for free, but while she waited for the tee, another employee approached her with objections to her clothing. Feeling harassed and intimidated herself, Austin decided to get her money back and cancel her membership at the gym advertised as the “Judgement Free Zone” whose policy bans “gymtimidation.” McCall Gosselin, Planet Fitness spokesperson, said that criticizing Austin for being toned, “…is not in line with the Planet Fitness policy whatsoever.”

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To: grundle

I thought everyone in CA looks nice and trim like she does?


61 posted on 03/20/2014 10:22:06 AM PDT by angcat
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To: grundle

niiiiiice .. ,


62 posted on 03/20/2014 10:24:22 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd
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To: grundle

Double bag Guilty


63 posted on 03/20/2014 10:24:24 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Cowboy Bob

If I went in and paid my dues, and tried to use their services only to be treated this way, I wouldn’t be happy about it either.

She agreed to wear a short they provided. That seems like a rather flexible thing to do. Then she had another employee come up and give her grief.

Granted this was her first time. So she didn’t know the policies that good. You still don’t act rude to people under those circumstances.

I have to tell you, it would have to be a very insecure person that would have to complain to the staff about her in that outfit.

She isn’t toned. She’s a softy. Obviously some resident hippo who thinks this is her private club, complained because she didn’t want to be seen side by side with a woman who wasn’t 200 pounds overweight.

I’ve had businesses give me absolutely terrible service. One of them tried to imply I was trying to pull fraud on them simply because I made a purchase with their full approval.

So I like the idea this woman is yelling out for others to hear.

I watched the video, and she doesn’t appear to be someone with a chip on their shoulder at all.

Good for her...


64 posted on 03/20/2014 10:26:04 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: grundle

I like toned women at the gym.

Helps me lift.


65 posted on 03/20/2014 10:26:19 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Their business model is that they’re not a place for muscleheads and gymbunnies.


I just saw their ad on a website this morning. Hot babes in lycra shorts. A real eye-catcher.

It’s a gym for low-self-esteem folks (wimps and blimps).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQfmpXsLV_4


66 posted on 03/20/2014 10:26:52 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Obviously some resident hippo who thinks this is her private club, complained because she didn’t want to be seen side by side with a woman who wasn’t 200 pounds overweight.

Or, some customer expected the business to actually deliver what it promised when it advertised and took her money. The nerve.

67 posted on 03/20/2014 10:28:42 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: grundle
This is an example of what I call the "war against achievement."

or a war against Private property

Planet Fitness has a dress code. It's clearly spelled out in their contract and signs on the door and wall.

You may disagree with it or you might find it silly but it's their gym on their property. If you don't like it, join another gym or open your own gym were people can dress as they wish.

This lady could have done just that

68 posted on 03/20/2014 10:29:31 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: dfwgator

turn around
(bright eyes)


69 posted on 03/20/2014 10:29:46 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Oh, you mean the thin woman wasn’t covered under those same promises? LMAO

Have you seen those advertisements? Watch the video. All the midriffs are bare.


70 posted on 03/20/2014 10:30:22 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: Hoodat
Reason #278 why California sucks.

I think you missed several.

71 posted on 03/20/2014 10:30:45 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: grundle

I think its racist...(S)


72 posted on 03/20/2014 10:30:47 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That was a diplomatic way of avoiding the real reason they told her to put on a shirt. I see women more “toned” than that every day at the gym.


73 posted on 03/20/2014 10:32:18 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: qam1

Go watch the video that shows some of their advertising.

Most if not all the women in the advertisements have bare midriffs.

Planet Fitness is a loopy outfit, if they’re going to advertise in that manner, then harass their customers for wearing what Platnet Fitness showed their customers looking like while at the gym.


74 posted on 03/20/2014 10:33:03 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: vetvetdoug
... and tried to do it without telling her she was fugly.

Come on, she isn't that bad, and she was in a gym trying to shape back up after an accident and a period of enforced inactivity.

This isn't the Stone Age, when people were always cut and chiseled from chasing slowly-dying mastodons across 50-60 miles of tundra to catch a meal.

75 posted on 03/20/2014 10:33:42 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: DoughtyOne
Have you seen those advertisements? Watch the video. All the midriffs are bare.

Did the point of the ad fly over your head? That this gym ISN'T for those bare-midriffed people?

76 posted on 03/20/2014 10:34:59 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: grundle
This is an example of what I call the "war against achievement."

Great term, "war against achievement." I'd not heard that before.
The woman in the photo doesn't look all that toned to me actually, but what is at least one purpose of working out in a gym if not to improve the physical body which includes toning?
And why not have examples of the vision of the goal that the effort is about?
This does reek of the PC, class-envy, achievement-envy, etc., libtard mentality that has infected the nation.

77 posted on 03/20/2014 10:35:13 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Iron Munro
Where's her Kalashnikov/Che tat?
78 posted on 03/20/2014 10:35:34 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: grundle

“Welcome to Planet Fatness. Shut up and don’t move.”


79 posted on 03/20/2014 10:36:09 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: grundle

“You’re intimidating people with your toned body.”
no.
She was not intimidating people. Other people felt intimidated by seeing someone who looked like their flabby-a$$ selves will never become.

Interesting. Seems “feelings” are all that’s important these days. Someone “feels” offended and it’s a federal crime.


80 posted on 03/20/2014 10:36:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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