Maybe you could nakedly answer SlakerInc’s question directed to you.
Undressing then doing a pose down in front of a mirror would have been the way to go.
I would’ve gone about my business; changing & getting ready. Don’t forget it’s important to stretch before working out; yanno, turn around, bend over & touch your toes, sit (on a towel), spread your legs & lean forward, those type of things. Oh, & you’re bathing suit is too tight & constrictive for those stretches so you do them in the buff, right? 
Little kids should go into the dressing room of the parent they are with.
If it was a dad with a daughter in the men’s locker room, I’d be as discreet as possible, wrapping a towel around me for the few seconds of changing or walking to another row of lockers.
And no dangling participles like the last time.
Well that’s what happens when I change.
What if your participles are prehensile?
Single Moms have to make a lot of constrained choices. I thank goodness that Celtling turned out to be a girl, it made my life a lot easier!
Try to be understanding. She just wanted to go swimming. It’s not like she’ll get to do a single lap on her own, or relax in the whirlpool where kids aren’t allowed. She’s just trying to get the kid changed as quickly as possible and get some pool time in.
Given the difficult choice, she chose the option where adults get to be as adult as possible in an uncomfortable situation, and the child wouldn’t be exposed to anything he didn’t have in his own pants.
There are viable arguments either way, but for goodness sake cut her some slack. Complain to the manager about the need for family changing rooms.
Why is the men’s locker room a better choice than the woman’s?
Because the mother gets to look at men and her precious don’t get blinded by va jay jay.
Its a win win.
Reported for insulting the OP.
Actually no. She choose to “protect” her little boy from being exposed to omigosh female nekkidness with no regard to other adults.
Yes of course** Slacker** could have just said “Excuse me, I am going to change now so if you don’t mind can you please get your child’s pants on and finish up outside? Thank you.” But there is no question that the mother was imposing and would be imposing less by bringing the child into her side of the lockers which is the more standard approach in that circumstance for either gender parent. Usually the adult has to change too.
Actually I opened this thread thinking that this going to a trans issue.
Change the kid on the pool deck. If there is a concern about his being naked on the pool deck, use a changing sack.
Because . . . penis?
Just amble up to them, all friendly-like, and ask…
“Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?”
And why is this a benefit to anyone? Children should know what humans look like. At least, surely adults should know what humans look like. And when better to learn than when you are young and learning everything and there isn’t any sexual tension or threat involved in any plausible situation?
Of course the child should have gone into the women’s room with the mom. Bringing an adult woman into the men’s room to spare her innocent baby from learning what humans look like was at best misguided, and quite rude to everyone else who wanted to change.
Well, this is a potential sex crime. Just as men hanging around in the women’s changing room would get a gazillion 911 calls, her actions are just as illegal, just as wrong, and should be treated the same.
But I strongly doubt she would see that.
Lady is just lucky nobody in the gym wanted to show off their “110 percent”.
Uhhh, I whip it out and ask Area Mom if she wuld like to pet my snake?
Right. Yeah, I’ve seen that done a few times (although I think it’s more common in the women’s room just because it’s less common for a dad to be the only one at the pool with a daughter), and while it’s a little awkward it’s more understandable and I’m willing to work around it.
Can you link me to that other thread? I’d be curious to see what people had to say about that scenario.
BTW, TruCelt, she wasn’t swimming: she was coming back from the pool, fully dressed. It was the time when kids’ swimming lessons were just ending, so presumably she was sitting on the sidelines while Junior had his lesson.
This made me literally LOL.
True, and there’s another problem. The place is staffed (in the winter months, when only the indoor lap pool is open) by just two lifeguards. One mans the desk, the other the lifeguard stand in the pool. Every half hour, they swap positions. The day this happened, one of them was male and one female; the only way to get from one place to the other is through the locker rooms.
So when that lifeguard I mentioned came through, he was coming from the pool to the desk, meaning the woman who had been at the desk when I came in had already gone through the women’s locker room to relieve him. To go complain at the desk would have been awkward, because it would have been like “um, you know that woman you clearly saw in the locker room when you came through? You should have told her to leave, what’s wrong with you? Go do it now!” I just hate to be that guy, especially in a place I go regularly. (I do feel he should have done it without having to be asked.)
And the women lifeguards never come into the men’s locker room anyway. So when this first started and she was still at the desk, asking her to intervene would be even more problematic.
Principle, schminciple. Men are just way more laid back about this stuff. I’d hate for the boy to be brought into the women’s changing room, have the police called and the boy spends the rest of his life a registered sex offender.