Men are showing up to The Wing and women are pissed | Feminists: "Men can't have their own spaces, that's misogyny! What do you mean women can't have their own spaces, that's misogyny too!"

mgtowolf · 2019-12-17T23:46:35+00:00

Now you know how it feels, sorta. If the men take it so far as to take the place over, then change it to be better for men, then it will be complete lol.

Dunkolunko · 2019-12-18T00:02:45+00:00

Now while I don't think it should be glamourized, I'm pretty fat accepting, so I'm only pointing it out for the irony, but one of the big complaints in the article is the "space taken up by men's bigger bodies and belongings". Do you think they could get away with saying that about fat women?

And I love how this woman says her "cis male boss" "treated it like a coffee shop and didn't respect the space" (what does that mean?) and was getting stares, and then the next line another woman talks about purposefully glaring at men and those that bring them, like no shit you get stares if women stare by default to scare off men lol.

FineCityLad · 2019-12-17T23:58:30+00:00

Much like men's sheds accepting women in, a space for men, to gather and talk about thier issues. But women just hated being left out.

AMLORpatrol · 2019-12-18T00:30:04+00:00

'What's good for the goose is good for the gander'

trash62 · 2019-12-18T00:12:51+00:00

Kind of looked like an advertisement for the place to me. How surreal us it to see words like "Pissed" in headlines though!

Feels like a PR advertisement. First off, how many men would even want to be in a place like that? I wouldn't.

It's actually quite sad that there is a demand for such a place. The fact that so many women seem to hate men so much as to form these spaces speaks volumes for those who implanted the image of men in their heads.

rabel111 · 2019-12-18T01:21:14+00:00

It's wonderful that these sexist pigs are leaving their nasty opinions about men all over the internet. It never goes away.

Hope comes back to bite them in the future when the pendulum swings back to a more neutral space.

HeForeverBleeds · 2019-12-18T03:40:52+00:00

Of course. Women in men's spaces are "brave", and men's spaces need to change to accommodate then

Men in women's spaces are "entitled invaders" who need to leave. Fuck them, another of the many double standards against men

irrelevantmoniker · 2019-12-18T00:52:10+00:00

And as ever. Feminism is about power. And yes. THERE IS power in having a place where a gender can talk freely without the other gender listening in or being involved. Especially if they can talk about the other gender.

That's why feminists want to A. remove male spaces. B. retain female spaces.

This is all feeling a bit 1984 really.

Kaptain_Konrad · 2019-12-18T02:57:28+00:00

30 something year old LONG time member... Wing was starter in 2016. I don't think you know what the term long time member means.

bakedpotato486 · 2019-12-18T06:52:54+00:00

Critics of the Wing were quick to point out the lack of diversity in the spaces, but the company’s expansion and popularity has brought up a completely different issue that was never expected to arise: straight men wanting to come in and hang out.

This couldn't have been written without even a smidge of irony. Absolutely every men's space has been called out for "lack of diversity" and thus had women "wanting to come in and hang out."

"Completely different issue" and "never expected to arise" my ass.

Lethn · 2019-12-17T23:52:27+00:00

“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”

It's called trolling you moron and I do not blame them at all for doing it just to piss you off lol.

YooGeOh · 2019-12-18T09:46:19+00:00

Meanwhile, the first girls only boy scouts troop is a thing...

citerunner · 2019-12-18T01:14:54+00:00

I am the anti-borg. I'm here to add my diversity and uniqueness to your own. resistance is futile!

Luchadorgreen · 2019-12-18T02:49:04+00:00

It would seem this is a lair within which absolute cunts gather

SqueakyPoP · 2019-12-18T12:11:27+00:00

decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink

So much for destroying gender stereotypes. It's decorated pink therefore its for women?

revengeofthedirty47 · 2019-12-18T12:55:54+00:00

Any New York MRA redditors want to stage a male raid with me at the wing

ausgamer529 · 2019-12-18T18:00:15+00:00

If we can't have our own spaces why should they have their own spaces?

KneeDeepThought · 2019-12-18T18:01:33+00:00

LOL comments on the article are closed naturally. Can't have joe schmoe pointing out the blatant hypocrisy in the first post, getting upvoted, and undermining your victim narrative now can we ladies?

Let us know when men can go back to having our own spaces again and then maybe you can complain. let's start with the YMCA- all the ladies out of the pool! No? Then STFU.

Sun_Wukong_72 · 2019-12-18T11:24:16+00:00

Good lord, what did I just read. That was one of the most toxically sexist things I have ever read. WTliteralF, America.

We need mans spaces. Legitimately, no chicks allowed, leave us the fuck alone, man spaces... and they don't exist anymore.

I went to join a boxing club last month. More women as men in there, all wearing their tightest tightest spandex, all doing that fucking irritating "haha, oooh, you want to look at me don't you, go on, look at that ass, look at it... You looked! How dare you! You literal Hitler!" they love to do so much.

I just wanted to get sweaty and punch things again. For the love of all that's holy.

So yeh, I hope their glaring doesn't put off the dudes who can afford to fuck with them in their holy space. Keep up the good work.

raffu280 · 2019-12-18T16:42:15+00:00

Feminism is just female bigotry disguised by "pretense".

anticathexis · 2019-12-18T00:55:07+00:00

Well, that was....interesting. Time for a nice tall glass of sodium hypochlorite.

Seriously, I’m going for the bleach. I can’t do this shit anymore. Jesus Christ...

2019-12-18T05:58:04+00:00

HELOOOOOOOOOOO LESBIANS!!!!!!

ApprehensiveMail8 · 2019-12-18T17:49:43+00:00

Don't worry; the men are just there to install the Pelotons.

benderXX · 2019-12-18T20:33:34+00:00

Everything is misogyny including equality.

MacSteele13 · 2019-12-18T13:58:00+00:00

“It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves."

No shit, Kaitlin...

tenchineuro · 2019-12-18T20:13:05+00:00

“There’s usually at least one [man] whenever I visit,” says Kaitlin Phillips, 29, a member in New York for the past two years. “It’s bizarre to choose to occupy a space women specifically wanted for themselves. Classic patriarchal entitlement complex.”

Of course, what else could it be? /s

This lack of official paperwork garnered the attention of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, which in 2018 opened an investigation into the company. The Wing’s large membership — more than 11,000 worldwide, according to reps — meant it couldn’t pass as a “social club,” and therefore can’t discriminate based on gender. This, coupled with a lawsuit brought by a 53-year-old man earlier this year claiming gender discrimination, led the Wing to formally adopt a membership policy: “The Wing is a space designed for women with a women’s-focused mission. Members and guests are welcome regardless of their perceived gender or gender identity. Recognizing that gender identity is not always consistent with someone’s sex assigned at birth, we do not ask members or guests to self-identify.”

Based on the new policy, the commission confirms to The Post that it dropped its investigation this past summer.

But all of the women The Post spoke to had the same questions: Why would a man want to go to the Wing, anyway? Just because he can? To hit on women? To be a troll? The company’s magazine is called No Man’s Land!

So the lawsuits were successful. Good to hear.

“It’s just annoying,” says Caitlin White, a 31-year-old West Hollywood member who sees at least one man working in the space each day. “Why do men need to be there? Why can’t they respect the spirit of the place? Men have to have everything.”

No, it's women who have to have everything. The very laws feminists helped push through congress make these kinds of spaces illegal.

When she first joined, she says, she made the mistake of bringing in her cis male boss for a meeting, something that she now regrets.

“I’ll never do that again,” she says. “He didn’t respect the space, acting like we were in a coffee shop or something. I was getting looks from other members.”

Women are so tolerant, eh?

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