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WaPo: A black woman was asked by a white man if she showered before she went swimming.
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White dude was out of line, but don't you shower after swimming in the pool? And not before. Always did that at my local leisure centre.
Really? All new to me. Guess, I've done been doing it wrong all the time. This guy was still out of line.
Both. Before because nobody wants to swim in dirt and after because nobody wants to smell like chlorine all day.
At least they weren't somehow arrested.
Yep. People put way too much faith in pool chlorine.
Yep. People put way too much faith in pool chlorine.
No reason to assume they haven't showered before getting in the pool.
Dude should mind his own business
Dude should mind his own business
While this reeks of questionable behaviour that might very well be is probably racist, this:
Many public pools have rules that require guests to shower, and that statement is just astonishingly dumb.
is incredibly stupid and a disgusting attempt to sexualize the act of cleaning yourself before going into a pool.
Many public pools have rules that require guests to shower, and that statement is just astonishingly dumb.
If the "health inspector" had concerns, he would've brought it to the management, not patrons/customers of the establishment.
Curse you Slayven!
Beaten.
Curse you Slayven!
This is the type of thing you bring to to friends when you all are sitting in the pool together, not something you said to total fuckin strangers.
What an asshole.
What an asshole.
I've been told you should shower before hand to decrease the amount of irritants you may have on your body.
A creepy ass dude approaches a lone woman and her child and start asking questions about their bathing habits? But she is in the wrong?
Yeah this is bullshit and doesn't do the cause any favours when you highlight nonsense.
Man was being a shithead, you are requested to shower before entering a public pool normally with one at poolside but to pull someone up directly is bullshit whether racially motivated is up for debate.
She is wrong when she said what I quoted. Don't twist my words, yeah?
She is clearly sexualizing the very act of making sure people shower, which was part of my job one summer.
Again, this quote is dumb:
The concern and complaint are absolutely valid in this case. But her sweeping generalization coupled with the sexualization of showering.. Nah.
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You're supposed to shower before. She brought race into it.
Yes, that's why the guy asking her had to lie that he's a health inspector.
White guy lies to black woman about being a health inspector in order to ask her if she showered.
Yeah, SHE brought race into it.
Watch the video, the dude is a peace of work
Exactly
You are more concern with her legitimate fear then with the guy accosting her and her child.
Exactly
Luckily it wasn't enough to be harmful, which I think he knew, but he was a piece of shit trying to scare them.
I know it's etiquette to shower before entering a public pool but I have never seen anyone questioned for not doing so.
Given the times we're living in I get why race was brought into it. But still.... I mean..
I don't know. These subjects are too damn touchy these days.
Given the times we're living in I get why race was brought into it. But still.... I mean..
I don't know. These subjects are too damn touchy these days.
I've been asked as a kid if I showered before getting in the pool. I can remember rec staff looking to see if you were wet and making you go back to shower.
But the million dollar question is were they actually asking everyone or more likely, picking on someone due to racism?
But the million dollar question is were they actually asking everyone or more likely, picking on someone due to racism?
I'm not. Why would you accuse me of that?
I'm saying the generalization is wrong, while she very much was a victim, and the guy is a creep.
Why put words in my mouth? I criticised literally one statement.
I just did, and the man is actually the one acting calm and reasonable.
There is no way to prove whether somebody showered or not. Therefore, policy or no, it's not enforceable, you have to assume people do it. Asking anybody is out of line. But, let's assume that this person was asking everybody and not just the Black lady, but of course they weren't. Nevermind lying about being an inspector.
You really see no problem here?
Let me help. A racist person wanted to bully around some minorities. That's what happened. But hey, at least they were calm and rational about it I guess.
He wasn't a health inspector. It's not his concern. Yet he felt the need to lie about it to interrogate a black woman.
Stop, bruv.
But you can't see her concern over a guy presenting himself as a official and asking private questions? It's a known tactic for sexual assaulter.
This guy is not a health inspector and from the KTLA article, the inspectors would not confront people about them showering or not.
Yeah because what would be the point? They going to check their ass crack or something too? The whole thing is stupid and I can't believe we have defenders here when the intent is pretty blatant.
Ah yes, those plainclothes health department inspectors that are stationed at every pool questioning people about their bathing habits.
Think you're supposed to do both. Before so you don't track anything into the pool and after to wash the chlorine off of you.
The thing is, I have no reason to suspect the guy was racist. We're not even sure he's a liar, since he could be a health inspector on his off time. While the woman wasn't entirely in her right (didn't shower), and as Westbanhof mentions, overreacts when turning a hygiene question into a sexual one.
So yeah I won't draw early conclusions on the matter. Maybe it's racism, but maybe it isn't.
Yeah, that's what guilty gaslighters do. So the actual victims look crazy and naive people like you shit on the victim instead
This is why racism happens. People so quick to just give people the benefit of the doubt when the most easily explanation on why a person is asking this pointless question to a Black woman is racism. Also, I like how you assume he's not racist, but also assume the person didn't shower. Benefit of the doubt only goes to the lying asshole who maybe spends their off time from their health inspector job asking random people if they showered and then following them around the pool to keep asking.
Yeah it's honestly wise to shower before getting in the pool, especially a public one.
That said, the guy approaching the mother and the daughter about that and lying about his profession was absolutely uncalled for!
That said, the guy approaching the mother and the daughter about that and lying about his profession was absolutely uncalled for!
I honestly think that's reaching. And even so, that's not what I said or meant. I said it's dumb to generalized like that.