Naomi Gordon-Loebl is a writer and educator from Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in
The Nation, Complex
, and the anthology
The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality
.
On weekdays around lunchtime, I head across the street from my office to the gym. It’s a New York Sports Club, which means most of the women in the locker room are white, skinny, tweezed and plucked all over. I feel like a lumberjack when I walk in there, all hairy, crewcutted and booted among the naked women with white towels wrapped around their heads.