Ohhhh hello great city of mine,

We need to talk about what happened on live television over the weekend on the heels of the shitstorm at Cornell and all the rest of the rape culture rhetoric floating around.

If you missed it, this “comedian” Shane Gillis—who is objectively in terrible shape himself, it must be said—went on live television and commented that he “didn’t know women just dress like whores now” at the gym.

This man took something women do everyday—exercise in clothing designed for… exercise—and turned it into a moral judgment about her character. He called women at the gym “whores,” complained about their tight shorts and joked that men are expected not to look at them, particularly when women are filming workouts.

Ok, I need to breathe my way through this one.

I go to the gym everyday and I usually wear very short spandex shorts and a sports bra. That’s it. Is that because I’m a huge whore? No—and that’s my final answer. I wear them because they are comfortable. I want to perform at a high-level and I don’t want a bunch of excess material hanging off me.

My gym outfit is not a declaration of my sexual availability. It's a declaration that I have a tiny human at home, a full-time job, a full-time Masters program and approximately 60 minutes in my day to take care of just myself.

Aside from that, it’s just not even a funny joke. If the entire joke is essentially “women dress in a way I find sexual, and I resent being expected to behave respectfully,” that's not particularly daring social commentary. It’s just the same old shit average men have been saying for years.

Our King Dan Levy hit the nail on the head with his response.

The most disturbing part is how easily a stupid joke about women's gym clothes slips into the logic of rape culture; the idea that what a woman wears, how much of her body she shows or how attractive a man finds her somehow makes her responsible for his behaviour.

And that's how rape culture sustains itself—not just through extreme acts of violence (like what happened at Cornell and a thousand other places like it)—but through the everyday normalization of entitlement, sexual objectification and the belief that women have to constantly manage men's reactions to avoid being blamed for them.

My short shorts are not consent. My body is not an invitation. And your inability to look at a me without reducing me to a sexual object is not a failure of my gym clothes—it's a failure of your character.

Also, I’m faster and stronger than you and that pisses you off too.

Love and light 💕

– Jules

📷 @editorjulesl

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