Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead
greygore@lemmy.world 2 days agoDidn’t think I had to spell this out, but in all three cases it’s victim blaming. Men blaming women for being raped, white people blaming black people for being shot by the police, and the previous poster blaming people for getting caught in shitty contracts by predatory companies. On a scale of severity they’re in completely different universes, but that’s kind of the point of an analogy: to use a more extreme example to illustrate why something is wrong.
Asinus@feddit.org 2 days ago
Very wild take.
In the gym-case you actively have to sign a contract that has a defined duration. You know all the terms of that contract or at least you agree to all the terms with your signature.
You don’t passively “get caught in” a gym-contract. People might sign those without reasing, but that doesn’t make them victims.