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Shannon Ryan: Rob Gronkowski’s TV lap dance: shameful, infuriating, damaging

There are questions a female sports reporter is often asked when she first meets someone and her career is revealed.

“Do you go in the locker room?” “Have you seen naked players?”

Those questions let us know that it’s still not considered fully acceptable for females to be in this male-dominated field, and when we are, there incorrectly and oddly is a sexual element presumed.

That’s what made it so infuriating to watch a Fox Sports1 segment on “House Party by the Bay” where Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski performed a lap dance on co-host Julie Stewart-Binks.