Is this even legal?

My (32M) local swimming baths has free swimming for women aged 16-55 but men in the same age range have to pay full price.

The prices:

£32.50 off peak monthly subscription. £42.50 anytime monthly subscription. £425.00 annual.

The baths are run by Tower Hamlets Council (local government), notoriously one of, if not, the worst run boroughs in London and nationally. This is not a new initiative, this pricing is set and has been in place for a number of months now. I have added the website and screenshots as proof. The website: https://be-well.org.uk

I am a local resident and would love to go for a swim to keep fit and get some exercise in.

I would not even mind paying a discounted rate, but to be slapped with full price because I don't have the correct "parts" just seems plain wrong.

What should I do here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for reading!

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Have newer generations of men, all become soft and victims of everything? Does anyone really support mens' rights any more? Or, is it just sharing posts?

It seems like every month, this sub becomes less and less of a congregate of strong men, trying to come together and actually act to do something... like call your Congressional person and/or House Representative to defend YOUR Constitutional right (not someone else's). I've contacted my Senator about a few things. I don't know if they affected anything, but I know that I tried.

Are we doing anything for mens' rights or just posting to complain about things? I've seen a lot of men lately that seem to be defending women, more than men. What has happened to us as men?

Some of my male friends that are well into middle-age, get together once a week and play some kind of game. We talk about when the world wasn't so disturbing. We listen to the music of our era. We drink some beer and talk about stuff, like sports. No one comes up with a topic to cry about. No one whines about their "work-life balance". No one brings up their "childhood trauma". We understand that men shouldn't be a burden on their friends. "Help" to us is, someone coming over and assisting us with hanging a garage door or doing a plumbing job.

I honestly don't expect any constructive replies and/or an absence of name-calling or insults, but I will appreciate if anyone can constructively reply. Men shouldn't have to apologize to other men for their remarks... or, at least that's how it used to be.

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Biology≠martyrdom

There is one huge, controversial thing that I personally think needs to be addressed. Something feminism has capitalized on to get alot of social control. A woman's biology. Thus far, whenever periods, pregnancies,menstrual cycles, post partum, menopause, etc etc. Whenever those enter the equation in many dynamics. I often see one of two things happen. 1, no person bats an eye if the woman becomes aggressive or even outright violent. In fact some may try to console and comfort her and she will hurt them. 2, somehow, which I still cannot bring myself to understand, these women will blame a man for the pain in their bodies.

I'm here to say it bluntly, I won't sugar coat it at all. Men, you are not responsible for the pain a woman's biology causes and you shouldn't have to be responsible. You can comfort and console, that's your choice. But if disrespect or even violence is thrown at you, you shouldn't have to take that.

I won't sugar coat this either, pain is not virtue or martyrdom. The hormonal cascade and pain a woman goes through biologically. Is not grounds for social leverage, virtue or even some twisted notion of greater suffering. And for the ladies reading this, whether you find this offensive or not. I don't care, cause I think it needs to be said.

No one, neither men nor women. Should escape accountability because of their biology. Yes, giving birth is painful, that doesn't mean it should be a man's fault for your pain or a getaway free card for disrespect. Same thing goes for all the other stuff.

Now, about feminism. I've honestly seen it happen too much for my own good. In dynamics involving periods, birth or post partum, a woman can make very clearly bad or even harmful decisions. And I'd see feminists shift blame onto the man, somehow. Then excuse the woman by claiming pain, he doesn't know what she is going through, etc etc. Now if the roles were reversed and the man did the same decision or action as the woman. He'd most likely be in jail or ostracized.



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This Timothy Busfield situation is the perfect example of why NO names of either party should ever be released to the public until after settlement or conviction

Their. I said it.

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Please read the body text.

I dunno if this is appropriate place to ask this or not.

Today morning i broke up with her. From the very first day i was clear with my intention with her and it was ultimately getting married. And from the first day she knew about my boundaries and morals.

One day suddenly she sent me a 1 time watch video where she was wearing a shorts with a cropped top t-shirt. Asking me if she can post it.

I replied in one line " I wont allow my girl giving access to random internet dudes while im here "

From that day fighting has began, she is moving to aus and im moving to NZ, she kept saying she will wear whatever she wants on appropriate places. ( she said bikini is not something revealing)

Today morning she said, i cant decide who she will talk to or what she can wear.

Am i being too much here? Am i being too backdated?

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Between Excused Freedom and Preemptive Absolutism: The Emotional Price Men Pay in Contemporary Relationships
https://peakd.com/psychology/@davideownzall/between-excused-freedom-and-preemptive-absolutism-the-emotional-price-men-pay-in-contemporary-relationships

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- YouTube A comprehensive description of the paternity fraud problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDOWeKoeghY

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Emotional≠emotional intelligence

I'm going to be straight to the point. No holding back on this one. Women are not emotionally intelligent. Being more "in tune" with emotions, or just generally more emotional. Is not, it absolutely is not emotional intelligence. In fact, intelligence and emotion shouldn't even be used together, they are genuinely too conflicting. Like oil and water, except you light the oil on fire while it drifts across the water.


Now, obviously I'm not saying be cold or be a robot. I'm just saying, emotional intelligence, if it is genuinely a real thing. Is not something women naturally have, at all. Any woman who claims to be logical, is still inevitably emotional, given the correct strings being pulled.

Admittedly, I've met women who indeed have logical personalities. But can become very emotional and harsh if disagreed strongly with. It doesn't even have to be a sensitive topic, just a very persistent disagreement does the trick.


Point is, women do not naturally have emotional intelligence. They are just more emotional, sometimes too much for their own health.

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USA: Texas doctor who performs transgender surgeries on children falsely accused her co-worker of rape after he exposed disturbing procedures at hospital.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15492273/texas-doctor-kristy-rialon-rape-transgender-eithan-haim.html

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Question for the women who are on this sub and support it.

The women who support men's rights, who frequent this sub and especially non feminist or anti feminist. This may be alot to ask, but I'd like to see what made you ladies choose to support us men. Obviously it could be deeply personal, even explicit reasons. And that's cool, you don't have to share anything you don't want.


But I think if the blokes (non offensive) on this sub learn why the ladies are also on here. It'd be a nice little spark of motivation or even some measure of reassurance.


I wanna know your thoughts, why do you support men's rights. Genuinely curious.

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how to find a white girlfriend

How ????I am living in China now

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I asked ChatGPT which gender is worse off according to studies... (Nothing modified)

>ME: According to studies, which gender in the United States and in the majority of countries is better off or worse off?



Short answer: it depends on which outcomes you measure. There is no serious body of research saying one gender is simply “better off” overall.

Here’s what large, mainstream studies consistently show.




# Where women are worse off (US + most countries)

These patterns are extremely consistent across OECD countries and globally.

Physical safety
Much higher risk of sexual violence, domestic violence, and stalking
Reproductive health & autonomy
Pregnancy risk, childbirth mortality, abortion access constraints
Economic power at the top
Fewer CEOs, political leaders, and high-level decision-makers
Unpaid labor
Disproportionate childcare, elder care, and household work
Poverty in old age
Lower lifetime earnings + longer lifespan = higher elderly poverty rates

Global indices like the World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index consistently show women behind men in economic participation and political representation.




# Where men are worse off (US + most countries)

Also consistent, and often under-acknowledged.

Life expectancy
Men die \~5–7 years earlier on average
Violence & death
Vast majority of homicide victims
Vast majority of workplace fatalities
Suicide
\~3–4x higher suicide rate in the US
Education
Lower college enrollment and graduation rates
Criminal justice
Longer sentences for similar crimes
Vastly higher incarceration rates
Homelessness
Roughly 70%+ male in the US




# The honest academic consensus

Women are disadvantaged in power, safety, and reproductive biology
Men are disadvantaged in health, violence exposure, and social disposability
These disadvantages do not cancel each other out, and they aren’t interchangeable

Any study claiming one gender is simply “better off” is either:

cherry-picking metrics, or
pushing ideology rather than analysis




# My blunt take

If someone says:

“Women are clearly worse off overall” → they’re ignoring male mortality, suicide, and incarceration.
“Men are clearly worse off overall” → they’re ignoring violence against women, reproductive risk, and economic power gaps.

Reality is asymmetric, not hierarchical.
Different costs, different risks, different advantages.

If you want, I can:

compare the US specifically vs Europe,
break this down by class (which matters more than gender), or
show how media narratives skew perception in opposite directions.





>ME: Show how media narratives skew perception

Here’s how media narratives reliably skew people’s perception of which gender is “worse off.” This isn’t conspiracy—it's incentives, framing, and omission.




# 1. Salience bias: what gets repeated feels bigger than what’s common

Media coverage doesn’t track frequency; it tracks emotional impact.




Violence against women is framed as a systemic social crisis
Violence against men is framed as isolated incidents or background noise
Result: people vastly overestimate female victimization relative to male victimization, even when raw numbers favor men as victims (homicide, assault, workplace death)

Effect:

>




# 2. Narrative asymmetry: agency vs disposability

Same harm, different story.




Female suffering → someone failed her
Male suffering → that’s unfortunate
Men are treated as expendable inputs, women as protected subjects

Example:

“Women unsafe walking at night” → ongoing coverage, policy debate
“Men die 10x more often in workplace accidents” → occasional statistic, no moral framing

Effect:

>




# 3. Metric cherry-picking

Media almost never present full dashboards.

Commonly highlighted:

Pay gaps
Leadership gaps
Sexual violence rates

Commonly ignored:

Suicide

rates
Sentencing disparities
School failure
Homelessness
Life expectancy

Each set tells a true but partial story. The public sees only one half.

Effect:

>




# 4. Language loading

Words do quiet work.

“Gender-based violence” → implies female victims, male perpetrators
“Toxic masculinity” → pathology framing
No parallel terms like “toxic disposability” or “gendered neglect” for men

Even neutral data is filtered through moralized language.

Effect:

>




# 5. Audience & incentive alignment

Outlets respond to what keeps attention.

Stories about women’s vulnerability → high engagement + moral clarity
Stories about men’s failure or death → lower engagement + moral ambiguity
Nuanced tradeoff stories → lowest engagement

So nuance loses.

Effect:

>




# The bottom line

Media doesn’t usually lie.
It selects, frames, and repeats—and that’s enough to distort reality.

Women’s disadvantages feel systemic and urgent
Men’s disadvantages feel personal and inevitable
Both perceptions are incomplete

# My blunt take

If you want a clearer picture:

Look for absolute rates, not just ratios
Ask “what’s missing?” after every gender story
Be skeptical of any article that implies a single-axis victim hierarchy

If you want, I can:

walk through a real headline and deconstruct it line by line, or
show how this plays out differently in left-leaning vs right-leaning media.

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It never happened for centuries.

I'll be blunt, women were never oppressed for centuries. To believe that women were collectively oppressed for hundreds of years is absurd. In ancient times, things were dangerous. Humanity didn't have the sanitized lives it has now. And who dealt with these dangers? Mostly men. Women were kept in the home because they simply would not be able to do the brute labor or dangerous things the men could do.


In fact they weren't really kept in the home. That would tell me the many generations of tailors, seamstresses, midwives and even some duchesses never existed. Point is, I do not believe the "women were oppressed for centuries" narrative is true.


Did abuse exist? Yes, but it absolutely was not universal. Yes, one can argue convincingly that women were abused, so were men, arguably worse at some points in time.


But abuse isn't the core of this post. To assume a whole or partial collective of an entire gender was oppressed for centuries, is absurd.

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The response to an innocent man's death just sickens me.

Ok, so the story takes place in India where a woman, who is competing for elections, boarded the same bus as a man called Deepak. Now, she began to record him without his consent, alleging he molested her when never in the video he did that. So of course, police didn't do anything but social media went on an active witch hunt for that man. Deepak, happily married and has a kid, is a very respectable fella. He couldn't take this and took his own life. What is very disturbing is how the women, especially on Subreddits, reacted.

They ​​justified him offing himself. The level of justification goes to a level where they citing natural selection or comparing him with N-Germany's leader claiming that suicide doesn't means innocence. There were many more responses and it was so disgusting I couldn't write all of it. Some were like a few good men is a sacrifice for all the wronged women. Excuse, me what the hell? And people say women are the empathetic gender. ​

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Elizabeth Banks Excuse

Recently, an Indian film Girlfriend tanked at the Box Office. It was an okayish movie but not enough to capture attention thanks to poor marketing. So those who cherish the movie, predominantly women, began blaming men and society for not watching. Hurling abuses at us like society opts for toxic portrayal of men or whatever BS they could cook up. This is not an isolated incident. It is an addition to the trend popularized by Banks. Blame the audience, especially men when things dondon't go as planned . I called EBE Or Elizabeth Banks Excuse

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The millennial women who don't need men! Why being 'single, child-free, and friend-free' is becoming a 'badge of honour'. OP: But MGTOW is seen as a danger to society. Crazy world!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15489363/single-girls-no-friends-trend-reaches-women-brag-isolation.html

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Update on DoorDash girl
https://youtu.be/46xekr1CEUU?si=nOtLIsJaE8RNNq0t

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Let's be honest about men expressing their feelings.

I'll be blunt about it, men do not express feelings the way women do. Society has paraded a very feminine method of expressing negative feelings or emotions in general. Telling men it's okay to cry, is not okay. That's not how a man deals with his pain. I don't say this to be harsh. I say this, because I've experienced it first hand. If a man is sad or unhappy, he'd rather do something physical, productive and active. Rather than shed tears.


Now obviously a man can cry if a breaking point is reached, or he can lash out. But more often than not, men would best deal with their internal pain by being productive or physical. The general point I am making here. Is men are very different from women, even when it comes to emotional expression. Women will cry and share feelings. Men will seek activity or productivity.


So men, if you don't want to cry, don't cry. If you want to cry, cry. The point is, you don't need to express your feelings the way other's tell you to do. You can handle your turmoil how you think is right.

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UK: William Shakespeare was actually a black woman, feminist historian and LSE graduate claims in new book. OP: Feminists are crazy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15494859/William-Shakespeare-actually-black-woman-feminist-historian-LSE-graduate-claims-new-book.html

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Arizona woman indicted for second case involving alleged paternity fraud
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/11/06/arizona-woman-indicted-second-case-involving-alleged-paternity-fraud/

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