Man calls out 'gym bros' for staring at women and making them feel uncomfortable: 'This isn't a zoo'

This generation of modern women is shattering old gender stereotypes whilst rising and shining to their true potential. But their dauntless evolution has not changed the fact that they don't feel comfortable in certain spaces. Take gyms, for instance, where women have to deal with the creepy gaze of men who spend less time working out than staring at them. Thankfully, there are also men like Lucas Fall (@lucasfall_03) on TikTok who aren’t afraid to take a stand. In a recent video, he called out all the guys whose presence tends to put women off trying to work out in the gym. Surprisingly, thousands of women felt seen and heard, probably for the first time after watching his video.

Fall, whose video has racked up more than 587,000 views in less than a week, gave words to the unsettling feeling of being watched that many women experience in places like gyms. He said that while most guys go to the gym to achieve fitness, some just go there to ogle at the physiques of female gym-goers.

“Some guys think the gym is just like a zoo. They go in there, they don't really lift weights, but they do a lot of observing,” he said.

While relating to his own experience, Fall shared that he went to a school gym where he came across young people aged around 18 to 22 years. He described that it was quite a “rough scene” there. “There (are) dudes at every gym, but the amount of dudes that go to the gym to stare at women is unbelievable. I will walk past a row of mirrors, and I will see dudes sitting at benches, looking in the mirror, and not even trying to hide it; staring at girls for like 10 seconds,” he explained. Expressing disbelief and indignation towards these guys, he repeated that a gym is “not a zoo,” but it is “a place to work out and then get out.”

Fall’s articulate expression triggered a hot button in thousands of women who came together in the comment section to utter a rallying cry against this issue. Many of them expressed the fears and shame they often felt but never got to articulate.

“I make [zero] eye contact and keep a resting B face,” shared @nathaly. @sweetface84 said, “I dress like I’m homeless, and it doesn’t even matter.” @angelinaaababyyy said, “That’s why I just wear full-on baggy outfits.” Others shared that they simply put on a playlist and pretend that these men aren’t there. @miintcondition wrote, “I’ve mastered tunnel vision, I’ve gotten so good at acting like I don’t see.” @adesha added, “I dress like Adam Sandler,” referring to the American actor and comedian who wears baggy and oversized outfits.

It seemed Fall’s video unleashed a deep-buried emotion in these women, for they erupted with hollering sentiments about how they feel about these staring men daily. “Imagine how tired we are,” said @rachel_baby143. @lunarkaleidoscopee shared that she was once recorded while “doing her hip thrusts.” @esma_melissa wrote, “I wear the baggiest clothes and still I get stared at like a piece of meat.” @leah recalled, “There was an old man that would just sit on a machine and stare at me.”

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