• Emerald@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    he’d be bullied in gym showers

    what? why would people be seeing your kids genitals in a gym shower? That makes no sense

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      9 months ago

      Have you never been in a highschool where using the gym showers was normal?

      Edit: shorts to showers because autocorrect has become dogshit

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        9 months ago

        I’m assuming you mean gym showers and not gym shorts. I still don’t get why someone would see someone elses penis in a gym shower. Unless they peeked into the stall or somathing, but that would be sexual harrassment.

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              9 months ago

              My middle school gym locker room had completely open showers. Like the kind you see in prison scenes on TV. No dividers. No curtains. Just an open room with a bunch of shower heads

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                  9 months ago

                  Bit of an overreaction. Same-sex facility sharing has been a staple part of human society for thousands of years. We seem to have done okay so I’m not too worried or “horrified”. I guess it’s just not something you’ve come across so it seems unusual to you.

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              9 months ago

              Depends I guess. They’re cheaper to do the open style so in poor schools and sports facilities you tend to get them.

              If you’ve been fortunate enough to go to decent schools and not played sports outside of well funded institutions then you probably wouldn’t have come across them.

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                9 months ago

                Not just in poor schools. My area is pretty affluent, but the school was built in the 1940s, and that’s just how it was back then. I went to that high school for a year (I’m 54) and never saw the boys’, but the girls’ was wide open. I assume the boys’ was too.