James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.
—Ian Fleming, GOLDFINGER (1959)
@GlobalWatchClub Left. Too much glare on the glass. Color is off, more of the shade of the Bond 60th Anniversary watch, not the standard blue Seamaster 300.
@WellBuiltStyle Especially when there is a push for modern trends to make clothing loose. Many mens fashion influencers will say the photo on the left is way too tight
@Rkeyworth24@MurrayHillGuy1 Maybe, I met some great PTA. It really comes down to if its a big clinic that pushes numbers (hence PTAs taking most treatments) or one that specializes in 1 on 1 care
@MurrayHillGuy1 Physical Therapist here. Best way to vet an outpatient PT; do they look like they exercise themselves, or no? Do they speak in medical jargon, or do they speak to you in laymans terms? Lastly, do they give you exercises you can easily incorporate in your routine, or not?
On gym attire:
There is an innate fantasy women have that goes like this: I am super duper pretty and everyone notices and loves me for this, but also this attention and power come with zero further implications or downsides
The fantasy is one thing, being frustrated it isn't reality is another
Most girls grow out of this as part of normal development (and you should! it's not realistic), learning that large amounts of attention and affection from, say, your dad, are freely given
....but that same kind of attention from strangers comes with strings attached
Posting bikini pics that get 10M likes means you have a lot of men saving them for...gross reasons
Going to the gym wearing next to nothing is attention grabbing for a reason, and you don't get to decide whose attention it grabs or the nature of that attention
It's a bit of a black pill, and you tend to (or, should) figure it out somewhere in your teens: strange men do not want to adore and dote on you for zero reason
To be clear, negative attention can happen even when you aren't doing something specifically out of the ordinary
Getting catcalled often happens in the most normal outfits - it's just the flip side of being young and pretty
The issue is this has evolved into almost an ideology: rather than recognizing the reality that attention is a double-edged sword, there's an impulse to regulate the attention i.e. "You can only notice me in the ways I want"
You become like the dog meme below, saying "No sexual thoughts, only attention"
Unfortunately for its advocates, this line of thinking is waging war with reality itself
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.
The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”
Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.
✍️ @BridgetPhetasy
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The only thing any guy is actually annoyed at anymore is that this is mostly just a weird power move culturally by women.
It would be like men walking outside ass naked, not because I want to, but expressly under the pretense that if a woman **reacts** then she's a pervert and gets shamed. So, she has to do this weird act of averting her eyes.
That choice *is* the point. The power to **make you** have to avert your eyes as if the woman is some kind of off Egyptian demigod figure from 5000 BC.
You can either commit the grave sin of laying eyes on a woman while she's dressed this way, or you can effectively culturally kneel and tilt your head.
That is the entire point.
“I’m gonna keep wearing what I want, and men aren’t gonna tell me what to do!”
Okay? Nobody, including Shane in that skit, said you couldn’t. But making videos specifically to show off the ass you’re mad men are looking at, in protest to a joke, is a level of irony that deserves its own SNL sketch.
Okay, here’s my take on the whole Shane Gillis conundrum. I genuinely think that if women were working out in an all-female gym, you’d see a lot less of the sports bras and booty shorts. And I think it’s fair to question why that is. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with loving your body and feeling confident in your skin, but I also think that sometimes, when you’re dressing to show off your body, there can be an element of wanting attention from the opposite sex. And I think that’s where things get a little complicated.
I can genuinely see both sides of the argument, but what I can’t stand is all these girls online making videos like, “Oh, I’m still going to wear my sports bra and booty shorts!” Like, okay? Nobody said you couldn’t. It feels like some of these girls are trying so hard to prove a point that they’re missing the bigger picture. I honestly think some of these Reels are ridiculous.
And listen, I used to wear sports bras and booty shorts to the gym, too, so I’m not coming from a place of judgment. I just don’t feel as comfortable wearing that anymore, and honestly, depending on the exercise I’m doing, I prefer to be a little more covered up. It can also be more practical when you’re actually trying to work out.
At the end of the day, I think there’s a difference between wearing what makes you feel confident and feeling like you have to make a statement about what you wear.