Sorry, but you've responded to a surface detail, going out of your way to be unempathetic. Gyms can be alienating to anyone at any age. So can smells, music, etc.
Any number of small things can add up to make a person feel like an outsider, and prolonged feeling like an outsider can ruin previously enjoyable activities (and can have other more serious effects).
Well, sorry but the parent only mentioned surface details.
>Gyms can be alienating to anyone at any age. So can smells, music, etc.
That's a general statement, and it doesn't say much. So? One could always find another gym. Gym practice is even more difficult and alienating than bad playlists and too much cologne for most people -- maybe one should focus on that?
Besides, if we quit every time there was something remotely alienating, even more so if it was "smells" and "music", we wouldn't go very far. Sorry, but this is one of "oh, the humanity" kind of situations.
But it might help to point that the surface manifestations of it are not really convincing as important -- because in most cases such issues are not some impossible to overcome medical/psychological issues, but just personal hangups if not excuses.
Any number of small things can add up to make a person feel like an outsider, and prolonged feeling like an outsider can ruin previously enjoyable activities (and can have other more serious effects).