British feminist wants teen males banned from gyms
The Daily Telegraph reports that the nanny state is in fact an international phenomena:
...So why, then, in my new role as the Department of Education's Mental Health Tsar, have I called for a strict and rigorously enforced age limit of 16 to be placed on gym memberships, unless accompanied by a supervising adult?
My reasons are numerous. Firstly, it's because young men are vulnerable and dangers lurk beneath the gym's friendly edifice. Less scrupulous fitness professionals 'up sell' protein shakes, energy drinks and even illegal steroids to impressionable gym-goers...
...Secondly, there's the potential for distorted body image. Over the past decade, ie since gyms went mainstream, male hospitalisations for eating disorders have risen by 70 per cent, according to excellent charity Men Gets Eating Disorders Too...
Of course. Children need a government tsar to keep them fat and docile on the couch playing video games and eating Doritos (or whatever the equivalent is in the UK - crisps?).
God forbid they actually go out and do something physically active and healthy. Clearly it is far better to ban teen males from a positive healthy environment and leave them to hang out on street corners where there is limited danger of them overdosing on protein drinks or acquiring a desire to not look like a blimp.
And surely it is better for them to have easy access to recreational drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, which the street frequently provides in copious quantities, in order to protect them from the rampant problem of steroid pushers who frequent every squat rack in the country
The Daily Telegraph reports that the nanny state is in fact an international phenomena:
...So why, then, in my new role as the Department of Education's Mental Health Tsar, have I called for a strict and rigorously enforced age limit of 16 to be placed on gym memberships, unless accompanied by a supervising adult?
My reasons are numerous. Firstly, it's because young men are vulnerable and dangers lurk beneath the gym's friendly edifice. Less scrupulous fitness professionals 'up sell' protein shakes, energy drinks and even illegal steroids to impressionable gym-goers...
...Secondly, there's the potential for distorted body image. Over the past decade, ie since gyms went mainstream, male hospitalisations for eating disorders have risen by 70 per cent, according to excellent charity Men Gets Eating Disorders Too...
Of course. Children need a government tsar to keep them fat and docile on the couch playing video games and eating Doritos (or whatever the equivalent is in the UK - crisps?).
God forbid they actually go out and do something physically active and healthy. Clearly it is far better to ban teen males from a positive healthy environment and leave them to hang out on street corners where there is limited danger of them overdosing on protein drinks or acquiring a desire to not look like a blimp.
And surely it is better for them to have easy access to recreational drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, which the street frequently provides in copious quantities, in order to protect them from the rampant problem of steroid pushers who frequent every squat rack in the country
