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Shane Gillis Outcry Shows We Need More Public Shaming, At The Gym And Everywhere

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15.10.2026

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Shane Gillis Outcry Shows We Need More Public Shaming, At The Gym And Everywhere

You should not wear underwear to the gym, just like you should not litter or wear pajamas in public. And society should judge you if you do.

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A week ago, the phrases “Kelly Clarkson puppet bird fiasco” and “Shane Gillis butthole shorts controversy” would have been meaningless gibberish. Alas, we live in perilous times, and the internet will not let either subject die a natural death.

The women of Instagram have taken up arms against Gillis, who spoke for every normal person in America when he observed on Saturday Night Live this week that many women go to the gym dressed like streetwalkers.

“Have you seen the shorts? Those neon … They’re like artificial-bait colored. And the wrinkles —the wrinkles go like around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole,” he joked. “And don’t look. You’re not allowed to look. For real, don’t look, because they are filming.”

To prove him wrong, women took to the internet to post pictures of themselves in revealing athletic wear and also to insist that they absolutely do not want any male attention at all.

Of course, most of these women obviously do want male attention, whether from their fellow gymgoers or from men on the internet. But I suspect plenty have also convinced themselves that they aren’t dressing and posting for male attention so much as they’re doing it just to prove that no one can tell them not to. They are asserting that a woman’s “right” to express her sexuality through provocative clothing trumps any duty she has to society, and above all to the half of........

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