Sexist gym with women only hours

I was wondering if any of you have seen this article posted on the daily mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2311098/Peter-Lloyd-Why-Im-suing-gym-sexist-women-hours.html
and what are your thoughts

I was wondering if any of you have seen this article posted on the daily mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2311098/Peter-Lloyd-Why-Im-suing-gym-sexist-women-hours.html
and what are your thoughts

A) maintain a women's hour but introduce a men's alternative for fairness,
B) keep women's hour (and only women's hour) but annually charge men less,
C) scrap single-gender sessions altogether.

All of these are perfectly reasonable and i think in general he raises some very good points, honestly i never understood the concept of women feeling uncomfortable because men look at them, you go to the gym to exercise not to compete against other women for who is the most attractive and i'm guessing it is only a handful of women who actually care if men are in the gym with them or not. Most importantly he does have a strong legal case, you can't charge people for services you are preventing them from using without good cause and by not offering men equal time or a reduced cost membership that is what they are doing.

Despite this in my opinion the sexism is balanced on both sides. A minority of women feel uncomfortable being in the gym with men due to the sexist behaviour of a minority of men.

Hmm, what do you mean by "sexist behaviour" here? I've never seen anything of the sort in any gym, could you give an example maybe?

Some guys use the gym to attempt to chat up women, but more often they make fun of women that want to use the weights. I think some guys assume that girls just don't take the gym seriously enough and are just hogging equipment for no reason.

I can understand that some girls just want to do their workout without guys criticizing them on their technique/workout every minute in an attempt to sound clever.
Women only hours isn't an ideal system though.

My brother was complaining yesterday that the majority of women who go to the gym he goes to end up not working out but giggling to each other and eyeing-up all the guys, whereas the guys in there knuckle down, train hard, and get out. Having worked in a gym I can certainly see his point. Coincidently, in the gym that I worked in they had a women's only gym, and was only ever used by females of larger size. They could have used that part of the gym as a much-needed staff room.

How the hell are you red on a forum that abolished the negging system a long time ago? (pathetic i know)

Some guys use the gym to attempt to chat up women, but more often they make fun of women that want to use the weights. I think some guys assume that girls just don't take the gym seriously enough and are just hogging equipment for no reason.

I can understand that some girls just want to do their workout without guys criticizing them on their technique/workout every minute in an attempt to sound clever.
Women only hours isn't an ideal system though.

Completely agree with this. I used to be a member of Virgin Active. Every time I ventured into the weights zone I received heaps of unsolicited advice and was always asked incredulously why I wanted "to get bulky" (always by men) when all I wanted was to be left in peace to exercise. It made me feel very intimidated and I ended up confined to the women-only zone which didn't have the free-weights & barbells I wanted to use - just a few treadmills, crosstrainers, weight machines and exercise balls. Tbh I don't think the men in the weights section meant to do anything other than flirt or show off but it got unbearably irritating after the first week.
The best solution is to have the women's section of the gym, but with the same equipment as the men's.