Good news. The ladies only classes have stopped at my leisure centre.

For goodness sake - women - HunterF is not real!!!!!!! I really really really really really am never going to respond to him ever ever ever again! Off to watch same sex marriage debate on BBC Parliament - of course though all marriages should be mixed!

Frank, why not? They are on the continent.
Many a time I've had to pass a line of men, all looking disreputable while they stand hunched over the urinals.
They look as if they're lined up ready to be stabbed in the back!

Absent

I think hospital wards should not generally be mixed.
I have only been in private hospitals and I think it is OK for rest rooms etc to be unisex.
Oddly I did speak to a woman who was in a private room with another lady in the rest room and she said the other woman would welcome my company.
I did go in to the room.
I did check with the nurse to see if it would be ok and she said yes.
I did however leave the door open and left for a while when the nurse was treating the one lady.

Frank

Absent

Public lavatories should not be unisex.

Frank

Hi bluebell

Women may have an issue with their body image but as far as I am concerned men pay the same council tax and leisure centre membership fee so they should have the same rights to use all the facilities.
The majority of women are happy to exercise in the same room as men so I think they should pay the same membership fee as men.
If women want women only classes then they should pay for them and not expect male council tax payers and leisure centre members to pay towards them.

Frank

Oh absent, you've forced me back again!!!!Let's see what happens now...

absent now that is really a worrying thought,frank and his cronies being in charge of loo roll and wether they have had their pennies worth

What about the fact the NHS is at last abandoning mixed sex wards? Should there be a campaign to restore them?

Trying to devise a strategy.....but actually HunterF it's a waste of my not inconsiderable intellectual abilities to waste them on dealing with you. Will this post get deleted?

HUNTERF What do you think about pubic lavatories? Should they be unisex?

And perhaps that's his raison d'etre, bluebell

I know there are lovely men but re this particular thread, there are wonmen who for a variety of reasons have issues with their body image and I wish HunterF would at least engage with the seriousness of that debate and the case for women only sessions and not be so trimphalist and frankly unkind. The first time I came across him on GN, I thought he was a wind-up merchant and maybe not even a man or an alter ego for another GNer(?). I'm still not sure...I keep meaning not to be provoked by him but then can't let some of his comments go unchallenged

he is still a member but not heard from him for ages have we, (*popparob*)
If there were a few more like him it would be fine and they could explain to the likes of Frank why they fail to establish a rapport with other members maybe. Sorry Frank but if rapport with women is what you seek in being a member here, you need to go and get some quality advice somewhere. But maybe rapport is not your aim. I am .

What did happen to him?

I miss pompa too, a real gentleman, he wouldn't like the way some threads are going these days. It takes all sorts though!

We had a lovely one once, bluebell, called popparob from Australia. He did a lot of looking after his GD and always wrote great posts. The kind of man I would have been very happy to be friends with if he lived near me. Or indeed meet up with for coffee if I had been visiting near him. He fitted into GN just fine. Not heard from him for ages

Hi Bluebell

Why not start your own web site?.

Frank

Hi Absent

I know there will be a lot of fuss if they try to stop ine men going to that class as one man has been coming for so long.
On average 4 men come to that class.
I can not see it being altered to accomodate 1 new member.

Frank

Well I just wish that GN was women only!

It's nice to see that old-fashioned courtesy flourishes at your gym HUNTERF and that a hearty welcome is extended to new members.

She did not say anything and she just went to the other end of the room.
I understand the ladies only gym costs £55+ per month.

Frankl

What did she say to that, Frank?

Well a new lady came into our class tonight and asked us if we had any respect for women and said we should leave.
I pointed out that all classes were now mixed.
One of the other men then said he had been coming to that class for 25 years and just told her to leave if she did not like it.
We told her where there was a ladies only gym so I think we have been more than reasonable.

Frank

They may have been round the corner. I lived I other rd before that school rd ran off!

"No word from Frank," Oh, what a shame. You getting bored Gracesmum?