Thanks for the replies. I don't ignore "bikini body" talk and actively avoid exercise resources that use it, but I don't find your descriptions of his use of "ladies' weights" relatively horrible.
My sense from your responses is that he wasn't being especially condescending or extremely stereotypical, and he did have in mind the practical matter of choosing appropriate weights--instead of assuming that no woman can lift as much as a man can, telling women that they shouldn't lift as much as a man does, or even assuming too much about what a man can do (such that, for example, a male user's "manliness" would be defined by his using Men's Weights).
I'll still prefer what Sue B calls "Cathe's more gender neutral approach," though, and he still uses "bingo wings."
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