Gymbro fail of the day

silentauroriamthereal:

This is a real exchange that happened to me today at my building’s tiny (shitty) gym: 

Me: *is lifting free weights with headphones on at the weight bench*

Dudebro: *interrupts me, mid-set, by standing in front of the bench and waving at me until I pay attention to him*

Me: *puts down weights, takes off one ear bud, figuring he wants to know how much longer I’ll need the bench or something* Yeah? 

Dudebro: You know, you’d be a lot hotter if you were using smaller weights. 

Me: *stares at him in genuine disbelief.* (Does he mean in terms of… core body temperature, because the opposite is generally true. He really means that I’m lifting too much weight and that he finds this off-putting???) *Ponders many, many responses within that same five seconds* Your opinion is irrelevant. 

Dudebro: *immediately mad, opens mouth*

Me: Don’t talk to me. *puts ear bud back in, resumes lifting*

Like… I know that many men are gross, but… SERIOUSLY?????????? A guy thought it was both okay to interrupt my workout in the first place, but then it was to criticize me for being too strong???? Is his penis really THAT small??????? 

Reblogging just to say that I love all of your responses, haha! Also: later, from the elliptical, I was watching him lift and he was using the 20-lb weights. I had been using the 40-lb weights. DUDE. Do you really want to be that antagonistic to a woman who can outlift you by double the amount you’re lifting?? Honestly, this is just begging evolution to stage a hasty intervention…