[NetAddicted]

Can't find the name of the gym.

[NetAddicted]

Oh, sugar! The name’s in the first line.

[nickcarraway]

I don’t understand. What’s the problem?

[circlecity]

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there’s more to this story. I get the very strong feeling I’m hearing only one side of a two sided story.

[corkoman]

Its a problem because the gym insist that all women wear this:

Ok I really dont know I just made that up.

[Artemis Webb]

Not Guilty.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

In a perfect world a man's home is his castle, and his business is his kingdom, so I would say they have the right to dictate rules for their establishment.

But at this point...If she were a lesbian having a tongue-wrestling contest with another girl or a muslim wearing a bin-bag they wouldn't say boo to her.

[PAR35]

If she had worn a burka, they would have left her alone.

[jjotto]

http://www.jta.org/2015/10/02/news-opinion/united-states/orthodox-woman-sues-lucille-roberts-gym-for-banning-modest-clothing

[Steve_Seattle]

"An Orthodox Jewish woman is suing the Lucille Roberts health-club chain for allegedly pitching a holy fit when she insisted on wearing a skirt during her workouts in Brooklyn. Yosefa Jalal, of Crown Heights, claims in court papers to be filed Friday that she was repeatedly harassed, threatened with arrest and ultimately had her membership revoked for following religious dictates regarding female modesty."

It seems to me that wearing a skirt while doing exercises would threaten modesty more than wearing normal exercise clothes. Cheerleaders wear skirts, and you can see right up them when they're leaping around.

[Snickering Hound]

Yoga pants or stay home.

[Zionist Conspirator]

This is what happens when we allow antipathy for moslems to dictate a hostility to religious strictures.

[Iron Munro]

If she had been wearing a burka they would have been afraid to say a word to her.

[Lera]

I don’t see what the big deal is .
The gym should have left wear whatever she wanted as long as she wasn’t getting on a machine wear it could have gotten caught on .

It used to be common to wear a skirt over tights in dance classes . Capizio still makes them .

[higgmeister]

I’m thinking a federal suit isn’t anything like a union suit.

[Ziva]

The woman is an Orthodox Jewish woman, the same as my own daughter. For those who think she wanted to wear only a skirt, you are quite mistaken. These women always wear dark leggings with a skirt. They do not pose a problem with gym machinery.

This woman had been a member of the gym system since 2011, and certainly wore her skirts with leggings the whole time. You tell me a piece of gym machinery that a knee-length skirt would cause a problem and you can ban a skirt from that machine. A knee-length free-flowing skirt (as opposed to a tight pencil skirt) poses no problem with a treadmill or an elliptical, and it had not been a problem for her for years.

The woman left the exercise class and was using an elliptical when she was told her membership had been revoked. It seemed like she tried to accommodate the gym by leaving the class.

My daughter was a member of NY Sports Club for a couple of years and did not have a problem with them concerning her clothes.

[Heart-Rest]

Well the first time Harry Reid tried to exercise in his tutu skirt on his "exercise equipment", the "exercise equipment" beat the living you- know-what out of Reid.

   

The next time Harry Reid tried to exercise in his hoop skirt on his "exercise equipment", that "exercise equipment" once again beat the living you-know-what out of Reid from his other side.

Maybe that exercise place has a point.

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On the other hand, the girls basketball teams at some Orthodox Jewish schools wear long skirts when playing their basketball games, and I say God bless them for honoring and staying true to their beliefs with the modesty they display.

 

(Not sure how they do in the win-loss column, or the additional challenges they face when they try to do a basketball maneuver like dribbling between the legs, but it is truly admirable that they are not afraid to stick to their modesty, morality, and decency guns, in spite of all the derisive insults and attacks they most certainly are forced to endure.)

[al baby]

Well her fit bit device was home made and it looked like a ba no not a ba but a bomb

[Salvation]

And it’s named after a woman, go figure that one out!

[BobL]

Go to a Sharia gym, what should you expect.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

DANG!