Water park staff must ask men if they are pregnant before allowing them onto rides

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Few things are more fun than going to a waterpark on a hot, humid summer day. Be it zipping down a multi-storey water slide or floating along the lazy river, a visit to a waterpark is a great way to beat the summer heat and have some laughs.

But Dwayne (he prefers his last name be kept confidential) of Oakville, Ont., is not amused by the way in which Wild Waterworks in Hamilton operates. Indeed, when Dwayne takes his 11-year-old daughter to the park, staffers are extremely diligent about deriving personal information from Dwayne and his daughter, information that is equal parts inexplicable and ridiculous.

For example, Dwayne is a 47-year-old bearded man. It is obvious that he is male. And yet, before he can take a ride on a waterslide, he is asked if he is... pregnant?

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Dwayne became increasingly miffed by the intrusive and ridiculous questioning, so he reached out to the manager of Wild Waterworks, Sara Kinnear She/Her. Ms. Kinnear She/Her offered him the following response: “I understand your concern, however, we have had inspectors ‘secret shop’ the park and given us warnings because staff were not saying the required verbiage to each patron.”

Fascinating. There are inspectors who “secret shop” the park? There are actually people who are essentially spying on staff to make certain that staffers are asking bearded males if they are pregnant? What the hell?

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