I confess, morbid curiosity sometimes gets the better of me. So I clicked on a link that promised to tell me about the people who should not be allowed to “gym.” (And that’s the way it used the word — as a verb, not a noun. So back off, grammar Nazis!)
I saw one picture and closed the page.
The gym at Canada’s Carleton University has removed its scale. Some participants called it “triggering.” Seeing disappointing numbers appear day after day could lead people to be discouraged about their weight. I figured that’s why they were in the gym in the first place. But whatever.
Instead of yammering some more about political correctness, instead I would like to inject a bit of reality into the concept of measurements, …
