You shouldn’t let anything come to you in the summer in Munich, the hot season bathes this city in even warmer colors than usual, the cool shandy tastes fantastic on the Isar as well as in the beer garden, and if you want to find out where you can get the best fries, you’ve got it right away Eight outdoor pools to choose from. Not to mention the many bathing lakes in the city and in the surrounding area. Ten out of ten points on the sunshine scale. If, despite everything, you wanted to be subtle and keep an eye out for the not-so-beautiful sides of the city, you could, for example, point out that it probably has the highest density of show-offs in the entire Free State. This is particularly evident in summer. Which brings us to topless jogging men.
You can meet them these days on the popular running routes along the Isar, between the German Museum and the zoo in Thalkirchen, for example, and they are said to have been spotted in the Olympic Park: always a little sweaty, always with the T-shirt off like an empty bakery bag in carried with him crumpled up in his hand and always with the same strained expression on his face, which is supposed to look confident but still can’t hide his red cheeks. They are too harmless for the offense of causing a public nuisance, but a quasi-naked jogger is easily enough for a private nuisance. What is functional clothing for?
The young athletes are not necessarily a nuisance (they are almost exclusively men under 30, at some point the connective tissue will no longer cooperate) because one would like to be confronted with less nudity on the Isar walk. That would be bourgeois. But above all because they flaunt their male privilege of being naked when and where they want, so aggressively and panting, while women in many places still have to fight for it or have just been allowed to go topless in the sun or in the water to bathe. So the accusation is: too much testosterone, too little reflection. On the other hand, how much cooler would it be to support women’s rights and exercise self-restraint. After all, it could also be that it is intimidating when such a naked male body comes running.
So I have a request for all of you who do sports with no breasts or midriffs: leave your t-shirts on, you’ll survive. Your fellow human beings will thank you. And finally, it’s also about your health: The risk of skin cancer is once again increased this summer.