Hello. It is 20:32 January 8th 2026th CST and I have been postponing publishing this fabula for a long time. It would be very different from all previous fabulas that you may find published on this resource so far. Everything I published previously was related to my iCoup project, or updates related to this resource. This on is going to be different and might attract your attention in some specific way. :) This story is about how men are treated in the USA and a little about how google review operates. You will get my perspective on these events and how I interpret them. Events followed would scar you forever.
I became a member of the "Anytime Fitness" on march 11 of 2025 and was visiting the location at 2525 W Anderson Ln., Austin, TX 78757. I was banned from that location on Jun 19 2025. And I left the google review related to the events that lead to the ban and the details of how it happened. But my review was never available to the public. If I open google review from under my account under which I have left the review - then I am able to see my review, but if I open google reviews from under anonymous or another account - then review is not visible.
First I will present you with content of my review and after that I shall turn to tell you about my communication with google review support team because it deserves separate attention. Below is the content of my review:
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Hello dear Reader. I am foreigner so I am sorry for any grammatical or other errors in this story. And let's begin.
I became member of this gym on march 11 of 2025. Gym itself is allright - nothing standing out has everything that regular person needs to build body and it is close to where I live, so it was comfortable location for me.
I was coming to the gym on my regular schedule where one day I receive an email that you may see on first attached to this review screenshot.
In that email I found myself to be accused of "staring too long", I do not know where I was staring at when I broke this rule... perhaps they have rules for how long you are allowed to stare into windows or at the TV... I do not know. My best assumption is I was staring into the "nothingness" recovering my breath after a set and on the line of my sight was one of this gym's lady trainers and she came up with some assumptions that I was staring at her...
This is my best guess, so I read that email and was shocked by the fact that the owner Jon did not ask me any questions and just notified me as if my opinion does not matter for their decision at all, the only thing was obvious - he was not interested in my perspective on what has happened. I consider such behavior on Jon's part disrespectful - so now we know that Jon is protective of his personal and it could be a good sign only if it would not be so discarding to his guests.
This is how it works in the USA - most men are feminized and trained (by education institutions that are designed for women and women around them) to behave very softly and gently - they way women want them to behave. And it seems that he was affected by that social training properly as well as the gym's owner. One day when I entered the facility some man smiled at me and encouragingly said "Hi" to me and I replied the same way (nicely and with a smile), and he was one of the stuff of this gym. Later another day I looked at pictures of the stuff on the wall and I realized that man who was welcoming and said "Hi" - was the Jon - gym owner, the same person who sent me email with warning. After that I did not feel comfortable to build eye contact with him, since he already has demonstrated his disrespect to me when he sent me the notification where he was not interested in my point of view on happened situation.
So I was to the gym yesterday(this text refers to june 19th 2025). And while I was to the gym - I behaved as usually - avoided eye contact with gym stuff (since I can not respect people who do not respect me) and I had a conversation with one gym member and I wanted to clarify something on internet after conversation with him - so I looked around and saw that there was one lady who was on her phone - and since I left my phone in my car and did not want to go get it from my car and there was no other people visibly with phones (and there was 4 other people - 2 trainers with their clients who were occupied with each other) - I came over to here and politely asked her to look up something for me on internet quickly after she will be done with her next set (when I came to her she put her phone on the floor so I guessed she was going to start her set, and she confirmed that she was going to start her set so I let her to complete her set and asked if she could look it up for me after she is done with her set). She nicely with a smile replied "Yes for sure.", so I have left her to her set and after she completed her set - I saw her standing by the squatting rack looking into her phone so I approached her since she has agreed to what I asked for. While I was approaching her (I would assume she saw me on my way to her in the wall mirrors) she turned her back to me and put her phone on the floor as if she did not see me and walked to one side of the barbell to take off the plate and at that time I assumed she really did not see me, so I though "Ok, I will help her to take off the plates since she so nicely agreed to look up information for me on her phone" so I came to the opposite side of the barbell and waited for her to build eye contact, and when she did build it she took off her headphones and told me "Are you waiting for me to look up for you something?" and her voice was tense as if I offended her somehow and I said "Yes" and she said "I will not look up anything for you I just have only one minute... so..." and she continued to take of the plate pretending to be occupied and avoiding further eye contact.
It was unexpected and rude. But well, what I can do, I am not going to force her to do what she does not want to do, so I said "Sure", turned away and after quick visual scan of the gym I saw another girl who was sitting on the floor looking into her phone, so I came to her and politely explained everything one more time and she kindly googled for me what I was looking for which did not take longer then 20 seconds for her to google and me to read the result, after that I thanked her, wished to have a great workout and continued with my gym session.
And today (this text refers to june 19 2025th) I have received termination letter. This time I have conducted little conversation over email as you can see on screenshot below:
I will leave it up to you to come to any conclusions about what has happened. I just wanted to share this information and perhaps it would provide other members and potential members with some awareness about how this gym operates and culture it maintains.
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I do not remember when exactly, somewhere around Jul 4, 2025 I have submitted my request about why my review is not available to public. And below are the screenshots of conversation that I had with google review support. Pay attention to how long it took to figure out NOTHING.
As you can see the google business support does not provide you with any useful information and bears no responsibility for ANYTHING. In my opinion it is very poor service on side of google and it's representative.
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