Some bad news for you. Every year, member of Claremont College’s outdoors club On The Loose (OTL) gather together in swim briefs and bikinis to take part in a strenuous “Speedo Hike” up California’s Mount Baldy. But not so fast, Lycra lover.
According to Heat Street, this annual tradition has been unceremoniously dropped due to students’ fear that the event simply isn’t inclusive enough.
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In fact, the whole brouhaha might even be a bit too “bro-centric” for their taste — though Speedos and bros don’t exactly equate in our minds, we must admit.
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This distressing news comes by way of the club’s Facebook page, via a post explaining that the group wants to be a “more open and inclusive space.”
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They feel the event’s very existence “unintentionally sent the message that to participate in OTL, you must be fit and comfortable with your body image.”
The name ‘Speedo’ itself inherently implies bro-iness. OTL is so much more than just that, but many potentially interested students get turned off to our club each year because of Speedo Hike.”
They also make the (fair enough) assertion that corralling more than a hundred half-naked people to stampede up a 10,000-foot mountain might be an idea worth doing away with altogether.
Talking to the Collage Fix, one student sounds upset about the cancellation and finds it “completely unnecessary.”
He thinks that if the club “wants to cater to out-of-shape, non-outdoorsy students, perhaps they should consider starting a different club.”
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On the other hand, who’s saying people who weigh on the heavier side are naturally adverse to Speedos in the first place?
Here’s the entire post:
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Again out of control PC and ignorant little social justice warriors at work. They are turning people against liberalism and the democratic party.
Xzamilloh
Good.. because when SJWs start getting their way, A. The general public begins to turn on them more and more, and B. Eventually they’ll get what they want and have to make up more shit to be oppressed, and C. They start to turn on each other because microaggressions or insensitivity.
jdboston617
Ahhh total bait and switch title. BOOOOO. No cool.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@Xzamilloh: Or D they do the the democratic party and liberalism what the Tea Party did to conservatism and the republican party.
Xzamilloh
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: That, too.
Mo Bro
As a college student myself, I fear for the future our hypersensitive culture promises, where words will literally become illegal.
Not actions . . . words.
Think about that, PC police.
Chris
Obviously, they have never been to Hollywood Beach here in SE Florida.
Trust me, overweight folk have no problems with speedos! 🙂
JerseyMike
Just because they make a speedo in your size don’t mean you should put it on.. skinny or heavy.. If you don’t have a body like a Chippendale, don’t up it on. That includes me..
cutterq
Definitely wear board shorts if your young and have no package. Body Shaming can go many directions. The worst body shaming is not trump but the gay culture with emphasis on the perfect muscular body only–no brains but a good body.
Brian
Political correctness strikes again.
MacAdvisor
As 350-pound man with body issues, I assure you, I don’t have any objection to a club of college-age people wandering about almost naked in a Speedo.
zoomlens
Unfortunately, as seems too common, Queerty has completely misrepresented the story. If you read the whole post by the OTL group, they had a number of logistical and safety reasons for cancelling the speedo hike. The post also mentions that the group was concerned that having this as their first event of the year would send the wrong message to potential new members as to the group’s purpose and focus. There is absolutely no SJW or PC nonsense involved.
SportGuy
Fat average guys ruin everything.
BigWill
The point has been made, so forgive me for repeating, but: “…the name Speedo inherently implies bro-iness,” WTF? I was in a frat (Sigma Nu, y’all!) and most of my straight fraternity brothers wouldn’t be caught dead in a Speedo.
Also: Dude in top photo in the blue swimsuit is smokin’.
Brian
@BigWill: You must have lived amongst very square fraternity brothers.
mikejohn726
PC brigade wins again
BigWill
@Brian: Duh. Ya think?
John
For Petes Sake I am sooo tired of this crap. Why not make everyone wear sunglasses so blue eyed people will feel as included as the green eyed or the brown…what are you going to do to “even the playing field” for the height challenged, you their legs are shorter so it is more strenuous on them…We have raised a generation (maybe 2) of pussies. I am tired of everybody gets a trophy, im tired of people claiming “anxiety” (deal with it!) and now getting tired of “safe spaces” Put on your adult underwear and stop asking the world to accomodate you. You feel bad about wearing a speedo? then don’t wear one. You want wear one but are out shape, then get in shape Geesh!!!!
BriBri
This is why Trump will win. It’s not just the USA, the entire world is sick of PC crap.
mujerado
This entire thread is insane. What in the world is wrong with social justice? Let’s try living without it for awhile and see how many of you still think of “SJW” as something or someone bad.