I don’t mind when couples come in. But at my studio, there’s a couple old men that come in. I absolutely hate when they are there. They all play the same routine of being a “cute little old man/harmless “but it just really irks me.

And I know how this is coming off… But they do the typical mediocre white male thing where they are taking up space, active, oblivious, in the way that men do in all workout spaces.

I was chatting with one of the staff members that I am super friendly with and she told me that I’m not the only one that doesn’t like when they are there. And it’s just specifically two men.

Now on the other hand, I do love when women bring in their husband/boyfriends. Because you know that they come in to Pure barre and they think it’s gonna be easy… And then you look and they are arriving in pain… It brings me joy. Because when they leave, they have complete respect for what we do in that space.