Women just want to work out in peace. Why all the thigh-rubbing lechery? | Emma Beddington
On Saturday Night Live last week, comedian Shane Gillis made a pathetic ‘joke’ about the clothes women wear to the gym.
According to The Guardian, on Saturday Night Live last week, comedian Shane Gillis made a pathetic ‘joke’ about the clothes women wear to the gym.
It was puerile – but also pernicious I’ve spent the morning doing Shane Gillis’s work: checking out women in the gym. Well, reporting for duty from the weight room, here’s the clothing tally: eight women in leggings and T-shirts…
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