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The Guardian • October 17, 2026 at 04:00 UTC

Women just want to work out in peace. Why all the thigh-rubbing lechery? | Emma Beddington

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. It was puerile – but also perniciousI’ve spent the morning doing Shane Gillis’s work: checking out women in the gym. If you’ve avoided Gillis thus far, apologies for enlightening you – he’s a “comedian” who recently told a “joke” on Saturday Night Live that began: “I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dressed like whores now.”Well, reporting for...