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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 pernicious I’ve spent the morning doing Shane Gillis’s work: checking out women in the gym.

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