Calling all men

Babies welcome at a pub but not a gym

Our world is truly amazing. Today’s Press highlights the plight of a mother denied access to a council gym with her baby.

Right beside it is an article on alcohol sale and supply and how the Christchurch City Council spent over a million on a plan that was then scrapped.

Alcohol is still sold near schools and outlets around our city are growing daily.

And we are still able to take our children with us to the pub. But not it seems to a city council gym. David O’Neill

Harewood

The sacrifices of parenting

Lucy Carey made sure her baby was asleep before taking him into the QEII Fitness Centre (Mar 8) but was shocked to learn that this was not permissible.

I sympathise with her ideal but I presume that when he reached the toddler stage she intended taking a play pen with her?

Or was she expecting QEII to provide facilities?

The thought of straying children among the weights and machines is enough to cause any gym owner to refuse them entry.

Sorry Lucy; you need to find a babysitter, not to seek a scapegoat.

Meanwhile you may have to exercise somewhere other than in a gym for a while – just until your children are older. Vic Smith

Halswell In the spirit of International Women’s Day, I would like to speak up as a woman and address the men.

Masculinity is strong, wonderful, often crazy-stupid (from a female perspective) and incredibly powerful. Like any power it can be used for good or bad, but it isn’t inherently evil.

So embrace it and teach your sons to harness their strength for good.

We need your love, your companionship, your partnership and yes, your protection. The sum of the woman-man equation isn’t winlose. It’s win-win. S L Frost

Pegasus