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Q: Making videos in the gym's swimming pool - anyone else think this is unacceptable?
Was swimming in my local gym recently when I noticed a guy with a video camera filming the pool. My "foreigness" aside, I felt extremely uncomfortable potentially being in someone's home video wearing nothing but my swim suit. I looked around the pool and saw no signs that filming was forbidden, and when I asked the guy to stop, both he and a gym staff turned on me for being "unreasonable". I was speechless at the rude manner in which they responded to me, especially the staff member who should have been more understanding of my concerns. There were only a handful of people in the pool at the time but no-one else came to my defense. In fact, I was jst stared at and made feel really ridiculed and small. WFT?! Please be honest, was I really being unreasonable for not wanting some middle-aged Chinese dude filming the pool I was in?
I argue always when I am in somebody's camera. If I get caught into filming 'unintentionally', I generally always show my middle finger while passing by rolling camera.
In China, nobody is too concern or is 'worrying' too much, because you don't like somebody is rolling camera into your face, or jumping in front of you in the queue, or smoking in the closed compartment (train) with 'no smoking' signs displayed everywhere. Chinese live in 'harmony' all the time.
Your best protection is to leave 'conflict area' immediately.
I can completely understand why you find this inappropriate. In the west we may be over sensitive to things like this, but if some random dude is filming people he doesn't know, then I think we have spotted the problem with banning porn
If you want privacy in China, leave China.
Redaria, you are now part of a commercial, think of it as you must be beautiful, or they wouldn't have bothered. On the flip side, better your bathing suit than your birthday suit
Just to clarify, the gym was a private gym and I pay over 4000 a year just to be a member there. Call me fussy, but the last thing I want to worry about after forking out that much cash, is who's video camera am I going to show up in. Also, there were little kids playing in the shallow area at the time too and it distressed me that no parent objected to a rude creep filming their kids. I think it's just wrong on all levels to film at a private swimming pool. The guy had no consideration for anybody's privacy.
philbravery:
I agree if you have paid for privacy and it should be respected
If the filming is for commercial gain they should have asked you if you wanted to participate or filmed after hours with paid extras.
if it was for somebody's jollies they should not allow it
either way you have every right to be mad
the problem is they just do not care because as we all know
This is China
Crazy. I actually went into a swimming pool once in China and there was a man doing something unsightly in the shower room. He had his back turned and his hand was moving back and forward vigorosly. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
this is not surprising in china. it is acceptable for men to be rude perverts.
In Guangxi Province, near the Vietnam border, there is a river coming down a high mountain with rapids, and some locals bought a few rafts and started making money. My GF, a couple of her friends, and me went there not too long ago and rode the rafts. It is a lot of fun, maybe 50 minutes of excitement.
When you aqrrive at the exit point, they have a huge room with a partition on the center, left for ladies, right for men. There, you take a shower and get dress to leave the area.
Probably there were over 150 women in their side of the room, when a lot of shouting broke out. Afterwards, I found out some Lady took out a small video camera and started filming all the naked women until she was found out. Her excuse was that she was doing it at her husband's request. But the camera and the video card were not taken away from her.
So, in China, there is no concept at all about "privacy", nor anyone respects it.
Scandinavian:
...and this is why my wife is getting a new phone that records video in 1080p. Oh wait, I have internet porn thanks to the power of great firewall jumping.
It is interesting how the reaction to this, is a lot of commotion, but no real action is taken. In 'The Off Center kingdom' this would have meant calling the police, or at minimum watching the woman delete the material from the camera. People in China are so quick to start bitching about even small things, but the outcome rarely matters.
You seem a bit paranoid...if there is nothing going on then don't worry about it. They could have been filming someone they knew that was learning how to swim. If you didn't want to be in the picture you could have simply removed yourself from the screenshot! (
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He he, I said: "swim"!
Scandinavian:
Confucius must be spinning in his grave at an alarming rate.
I'd be more worried that people like Sparkey have confessed to dropping a turd in the pool.
Well you could look at it another way, it is Asia, my wife and I visited home in May; she was taking pictures of butterflies with narratives saying American butterflies, camera clicking Asians, oooo, ahhhhh, you have to give them props though, I never seen so many good cameras being used in any one country, its like they are all photographers.
Yes. Just like it's rude to sit on a bench tapping on angry birds when others need to use it. . .then getting pissed when the big foreigner that benches 335 lbs tells them to get up so he can do is sets.
