I know it’s a joke strip, but don’t worry about being judged at the gym, only the 1% bottom dregs of gym goers do that. Most of us know it’s difficult and respect you for trying, we won’t bother you unless you might injure yourself.
And that woman is quietly getting jacked af, look that massive back in her last panel
Only partly related, but at the gym my BF works out at, the buffest, most ripped guy is this older gent who has the nickname ‘Kratos’.
Why? Because if you gave him some makeup he’d look exactly like Kratos from Dad of Boi.
This idea that other people are looking at you and judging you at the gym is pure paranoia and a bit of a case of “main character syndrome”
Lol you clearly don’t go to the gym if you’re saying this. Went to the YMCA as a kid and saw elliptical politics that made my middle school that literally split us into “teams” by economic class look tame in comparison. Because of the death of the third place in western society, any activity that isn’t where you sleep or work becomes a third place, where people are kind of inherently judging the people around them, to fulfill this. All the shitty people you went to high school gym with are mostly the same people now, and need a place to continue their bullshit. Some will grow past this, but by that point the next generation of gym shitheads is ready.
The only way I agree with your comment is if you said “people at the gym aren’t judging you any more than people outside the gym already do”. Maybe it’s just the area I live, but everything becomes a game of judgement. It’s one thing to say “yeah I’m being judged by other people and I don’t care”. But to determine that you aren’t being percieved at all off of this idea is more delusional than the idea that you are being percieved.
I guess it’s easier when your’re an older white dude, you can just kind of melt into the background and stay off people’s radars. It’s probably way harder when your trans.
My experience is in line with @TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu
Maybe you have a case of the main character syndrome or some social anxiety yourself
Lol nah it’s true, people silently judge everyone around them and they do it to try to convince themselves they are superior. That they haven’t been doing things wrong their whole lives. That their inner models for how the world works are accurate.
You just don’t want to admit that humans are that shitty, that’s all. Or that you are.
YOU silently judge everyone around you. You’ve admitted as much. You don’t know what it going on in any one else’s head, that’s pure conjecture by you.
And so do you. I never said I was excluded from that rule. I am at least unabashedly honest about it. You just don’t want to accept you are the same way.
We are nothing but selfish, indolent, avaricious, narcissistic, jealous, petty, nasty little apes who establish dominance hierarchies and silently judging others for the reasons I listed above is one of the myriad of ways in which we demonstrate our true nature and establish dominance over one another.
Convincing oneself one is superior to others is a survival mechanism. A destructive one I am going to judge you and blame you for, simply because it is the truth.
We are destructive and cruel to each other and that is what it means to be human. Accept it.
Wow, I scrolled through your history and landed one one random comment.
If you see humans default to this, it’s only a reflection of yourself, and I mirror the guy who replied to you. Therepy would really help you.
Choose to see the good, or proliferate the bad, your choice.
my thoughts at gym:
- grumble I’m tired and want to go home but I’m glad I came
- oh hey it’s that person, they’re making progress rock on
- ah rehab exercises? bummer. Good on them doing the work to get better
- Wow that person is jacked, they must be working so hard
- Oh no the thing I want to use it taken. Oh well I’ll wait
Adding to those:
- [Song Lyrics]
- Good lord, that lady is tiny but she lifts some serious iron. She could kick my ass. (there’s a very short but very built young woman who works out at the same time&place as me)
- Oh boy, cardio. I hate it here :D
