I am 100% with you on the regular gyms's general suckage for me personally. But the Bitch thing made me think, where Curves is concerned, that the overall business is selling this very narrow definition of feminine power. An individual Curves franchise may be empowering, but they're as a company still selling weightloss as the path to self-actualization. If I buy from one empowering franchise, I am still basically sending money to Weight Watchers or Dr. Phil. I am supporting the weightloss industry, and I will not do that. They are evil, evil liars. [Er, yeah, if you can't tell, this is definitely one of my personal hot buttons.]

There are other women-only gyms (Victory Lady, I think, is a chain like this) that are more truly girl-powerful and don't hawk weightloss. I feel better about those.