I Was Working Out At The Gym When 2 Men Started Talking – Then I Heard Their Disturbing Comments

“I didn’t acknowledge the men directly because I know better than to engage with people like them...”

Man 1: So many women in here today.

Man 2: Too many. Why are they trying to get so strong all of a sudden?

Man 1: Maybe they’re planning an uprising.

While it was fresh in my memory, I went to another area of the gym and typed their exchange into my phone, also texting it to my husband and my girlfriends.

I didn’t acknowledge the men directly because I know better than to engage with people like them. Both of them were bigger than I am, and I had to walk back to my car through a parking garage, something I always do with my finger on a mace trigger inside my pocket. Don’t assert yourself because they might retaliate. You can’t be too careful.

Then, last Saturday night, my teen daughters and I settled onto the couch to watch Saturday Night Live on Peacock, a weekly ritual we love.

Only a few minutes in, host Shane Gillis delivered the now-infamous monologue lines: “I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like whores now?” Then he went on to describe the short shorts he has seen women wearing, and where they bunch and gather on our bodies.

I looked at my teens, who appeared a bit stunned. I paused the TV.

“Women can wear whatever they want!” my older daughter said. “His comment says more about him than the women he’s criticising.”

My younger teen, something of a comedy savant, was more annoyed that “he........

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