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Brickbat: Tough Crowd

Charles Oliver | 1.4.2021 4:00 AM

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The Ipswich, Australia, City Council has reprimanded council member Paul Tully for posting a sexist joke to his personal Facebook page. The post read: "I asked my trainer which machine at the gym I should use to impress beautiful women. He pointed outside and said, 'The ATM Machine.'" The post received a half dozen complaints before Tully removed it.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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