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Kevin Wilbanks wrote:
The original guy did not say that he liked to train so brutally that he happened to end up in classes with no women in them, he said he did not like to train with women. The people here are objecting to the idea of excluding women by design, and of an express preference not to train with women.
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??? My point (which was pretty darn clear) is that some people have perfectly valid reasons why they don't want to train with women... or with men....and that's up to them. I was objecting to someone's opinion being trivialized or denigrated because it doesn't conform to someone eles's idea of "correct thinking". I was pretty clear and I don't want to get pulled into a useless argument after stating an opinion, Kevin.
If I have set goals in my training and I don't want to train with women or with too-aggressive men or *whatever*, they're my goals and preferences and I should be able to decide what I want to do without anyone haranguing me because my decisions don't conform with their established "correctness". It's that simple.
I go to a dojo to train, not socialize. And yes, a lot of dojos are run by "dojo momma's" who pretty much decide who fits and who doesn't, according to their own views of political correctness. I don't complain; I just leave. Same way I leave a dojo that is run by a "herd bull" type guy who is running his own little empire of followers. Each to his own, I allus sez.
Mike