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numberwang on 24 March 2018

Democracy dies in darkness

Is your spin class too young, too thin and too white?

She’s often the only fat woman in the room as well, she says. And if you’re looking for a mature crowd, you’ll have to keep looking, too: By the health club association’s reckoning, the average age of studio exercisers is 30.

“The messaging,” says Stanley, “is essentially: You’re allowed in this space if you are white, slender, able-bodied and less than 45, cis-gender and heterosexual. And if you’re not, then you’re not welcome.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-your-spin-class-too-young-too-thin-and-too-white/2018/03/16/ca2fa406-1282-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.927a64d9969d



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PwerlvlAmy on 24 March 2018

pretty dumb and pretty racist.



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sundin13 on 24 March 2018

Just finished the article. It seems to be a fairly well written but overall fairly uninteresting piece in the Style section of WaPo. I struggle to see anything of substance to comment about, or more broadly, why this was even posted.



VGPolyglot on 24 March 2018

What is the point of this? You don't even provide any opinion of your own.



jrRodney on 24 March 2018

So true. 



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 24 March 2018

Did you even read the article? It's an article about how high prices and marketing material sets up certain expectations for the participants. And how those expectations can make who shows up a different story. It is actually an interesting, decently written article. But I guess let's just cut out the parts that sound crazy with no context



o_O.Q on 24 March 2018
CaptainExplosion said:
RolStoppable said:

I think the point is that there are too many people of color in the USA, and they feel entitled to take over everything.

Seriously, how am I the only one who notices that's super racist?

how was his post racist?



Flilix on 24 March 2018
CaptainExplosion said:
RolStoppable said:

I think the point is that there are too many people of color in the USA, and they feel entitled to take over everything.

Seriously, how am I the only one who notices that's super racist?

You're not the only one. Numberwang always makes these kinds of threads in which he just copies a news article. He never gives his opinion, but in the way he cherrypicks these articles it's very clear what he's trying to say.



o_O.Q on 24 March 2018
Flilix said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Seriously, how am I the only one who notices that's super racist?

You're not the only one. Numberwang always makes these kinds of threads in which he just copies a news article. He never gives his opinion, but in the way he cherrypicks these articles it's very clear what he's trying to say.

what is he trying to say?



Lawlight on 24 March 2018
Flilix said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Seriously, how am I the only one who notices that's super racist?

You're not the only one. Numberwang always makes these kinds of threads in which he just copies a news article. He never gives his opinion, but in the way he cherrypicks these articles it's very clear what he's trying to say.

Tell us what he’s saying.