Joshua Nederveld is a chauvinistic, pea-for-a-brain, wannabe meathead. As a woman who regularly uses the bench (with her measly 70 pounds), I am outraged by his delusional "unwritten laws" of the weight room.
Nederveld and gym bros like him need to stop comparing their paltry triceps in the mirror wall and take a good look around. He needs to realize that not all women are the 2.5 pound-lifting, nail-breaking, elliptical-revolving girls he so eloquently speaks of. Sure those girls can be annoying, but I can name plenty of others who squat just as much as most guys.
Every member of the Student Body contributes funding to Rec Sports through the activities fee. Therefore, women - pretty girls and tomboys alike - have an equal "right and privilege" to use the "good" side of the gym as do the gorillas. As far as Nederveld's unsubstantial comments about the gym music selection, don't be fooled. I am quite sure he is guilty of knowing more than a few of the words to "Since You've Been Gone" (and liking it).
Listening to endless amounts of Rage Against the Machine while curling 30s won't make him more of a man. If Nederveld simply can't stand the mood Akon puts him in, I have one simple tip for the beefcake - get an iPod, and while he's at it, a life, so he can find something better to do than rag on the ladies in the weight room who he and his puny pecs don't stand a chance with.
