• AgentBigCactus@lemmy.zip
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    It’s sad that seeking out like minded people who share your values and hobbies is to be mocked. Men go, create a gym for other guys to enjoy a space where they can work on themselves and not to oggle women is a bad thing?

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    I seem to recall that the very same passage in their Bible that condemns lust as thoughtcrime also prescribes a remedy—and it’s to gouge out your own leering eyes, not bar women from public spaces.

    You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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      Thanks for the bible verse, the next time I get asked why I’m not religious, I’ll use “I don’t want to gouge out my own eyes” as the reason. I also don’t want to whip slaves, but I think they removed that after the old testament

      • peripinkel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        God approves and disapproves of slavery in both the new testament and old testament. Also in matthew 5:17-20 Jesus very clearly states that the old testament is to be followed. So even if the new testament did not include what seems to be approval of slavery, it would still not matter. But the bible also disapproves of slavery. If you want a whole lot of stuff you can quote on what you do not want to do, I would suggest looking up the skeptics annotated bible. They make some great collections.

        • root@lemmy.wtf
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          Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.

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      7 hours ago

      These are specifically for gay conservatives who are so far in the closet that they are in a castle in Narnia. It’s honestly kind of pathetic.

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    Aside from all the gay references here this is a real two edged sword. On one hand, get all these right wing misogynist asshats away from women in gyms. Otoh, this is just another recruiting ground and echo chamber for right wing redpill incel BS.

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      20 hours ago

      Can confirm.

      I went to a dudebro gym. It was a fucking incel hive mind.

      Half the encouragement was to “bang any bitch you want” and the other half was about reclaiming masculinity.

      One guy kept talking about “fighting for our right for survival” like motherfucker, you’re a 6ft white dude. Chill.

      If the gym doesn’t have a BLM/LGBT flag and a bunch of diversity, I don’t join.

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        I’m fighting for my right for survival everyday, because I’m five fucking five and some of you tall fuckers like to put what I’m looking for above my eyesight. Seriously I’m glad my proportions are mildly fucked since I ended up with weirdly lanky arms so I can at least reach shit. Seriously who puts the top ramen on the aisle top shelf, that’s where the fucken weird ass Korean burn your asshole like your getting fucked by Ghost Rider shit is supposed to go.

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      What I don’t get is, the space addressing “censorship in media” is often ultra conservative. How on earth does that gooner crowd reconcile with spaces that are “Anti-sexuality”?

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      men aren’t even allowed to work out together without having their sexuality questioned. god forbid we actually become–gasp–friends with each other! and if that happens, it’s apparently only to concoct right-wing plots and figure out clever ways to harass women.

      meanwhile, a women’s only space is supposedly heaven on earth, even though they’ll all be gossiping and backstabbing each other for no reason.

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        Ahem. From the article:

        This is what Hambrecht and Parsons are doing with their male-only gyms. They’re spreading conspiracies about morality and traditional marriage that cast women as dangerous. They’re promoting men rising up as warrior-kings who are ready to fight evil, and they’re getting rid of women who they claim are ruining everything.

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        Ok. you blatantly disregarded the context of this post in order to make it some gender-war post about bros who just wanna be bros. That’s stupid.

        The title is, just in case you can’t read:

        Men-Only Gyms Trying To Protect Christian Men From Lust Get Brutally Ridiculed

        So we are OBVIOUSLY not discussing workout buddies, or gym friendships, or even y’know, if gay dudes like going to the gym, which nobody is saying can’t happen. But you went and redpilled it as a war against men because women have spaces away from men exactly because of the kind of men in the article.

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          Bro immediately was like “Why are you picking on me?!” Victimhood.

          My dude, chill.