"Stop Staring at Me!": Woman Gets Angry

by 8DonCo Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:37 pm

"Stop Staring at Me!": Woman Gets Angry at a BLIND Man for Staring at Her at the Gym

Picture yourself at the gym, going through your regular workout routine, when you catch sight of a woman across the room. You can't seem to look away, until she becomes fed up and approaches you to ask you to stop. It may seem like you're in the wrong. However, there's a twist: what if you were actually blind this whole time?
It's not unusual for men to stare at women at the gym, which can lead women to believe that any man who happens to glance their way is being creepy. This assumption isn't always fair, as shown in a recent Reddit post where a blind man shared his own experience of being misjudged.

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The now-viral post caused a stir online after a blind man shared his experience of being wrongly accused of staring at a woman in the gym, describing how he had to show his ID card from the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind to prove he wasn't staring at her.
The video captioned "...to be BLIND" brings attention to only one struggle that blind people may face when working out at the gym – simply trying to work out and maintain their fitness can provoke negative reactions from other gym members.
"I'm blind," the man starts the video by stating.
He says that he was at the gym one time and was just standing there doing tricep pushdown exercises.
And since he can't see, he just kind of stares off into space while doing his thing at the gym. Even sighted people have moments of staring off into space at the gym – it's perfectly normal.
Then, halfway through a set, he started hearing footsteps that seemed like they were coming in his direction, "getting closer and closer and closer.'"
He then learned who was getting closer to him when all of a sudden, one woman was right up in his face and seemed upset as she said, "I didn't come here to be stared at!"
The guy was like "Huh!" as he couldn't even see the woman, let alone stare at her.
"I'm sorry, I'm blind," he told her, as any person in his situation would have responded.
Despite his explanation that he was unable to see or stare at her, she kept saying "stop staring at me!"
The woman then stormed off and returned with the manager a few minutes later to address the issue of a blind man "staring" at her.