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Port Jervis,#2Author of original report
Tue, May 03, 2011
I agree with everything the respondent has posted; just want to make clear that I do not feel any one group has a right to special headgear over another. If I or you are made uncomfortable by someone's "different" way of dressing, we need to get a grip and examine our own fears and presuppositions about other people.
I have given a lot of thought to whether or not I should go back to PF and wear a baseball cap to cover my bad hair days. I've thought a lot about the scary people who DO wear bandanas as "colors" and whether I should let them be the cause of me giving up wearing my own favorite cotton headscarves.
When Planet Fitness can show me why a bandana is more dangerous to wear than a baseball cap while exercising, I will reconsider. Unless there's a better reason than fear, then even baseball caps should be banned.
(I know I'm in a losing battle here -- but somebody has to be the first to stand up and give it a try.)
Robert
Irvine,#3Consumer Comment
Tue, May 03, 2011
How do they know that there is not a gang of 60 year old women and that that blue is not your "Color"?
Seriously though, they are not discriminating against you. They are treating you exactly as they treat everyone else, based on their posted rules. Clothing choice by itself is not any protected class that I am aware of. But if they based who could wear certain clothes based on race or age then that would be discrimination.
The reason behind what you call their lack of sense is that there are members of society who see discrimination in everything and will sue a company at the drop of a hat. All it takes is for a person of another race to come in see that you are wearing a bandana. If they then wear one and are told to take it off their next action would be to get a lawyer and sue PF for a few million dollars. So if you want to blame anyone for thier lack of "sense" blame these "sue happy" people and the laywers who probably wrote the policy.
I am not saying if the policy is good or bad, I am just telling you the reason why you are not being treated any differently than anyone else. If you don't care what headgear is worn by anyone then you can complain and try to change their policy. If they don't then leave. But if you only want certain headgear worn by certain people then you are really the one who is "judging" other people.