Dan Levy is not letting this one slide. After Shane Gillis hosted SNL on Saturday and joked that women at the gym“dressed like whores,”Levy posted an Instagram Reel on Sunday calling the remarks misogynist. His response was blunt: women wearing short shorts to the gym doesn’t make them whores, it makes the men calling them whores misogynists. That single line has been shared everywhere, and for good reason.
The comment section quickly turned into a moment of its own, with Hannah Einbinder, Elizabeth Banks, and Flavor Flav all chiming in to agree. Levy also made a point of saying this isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s an everybody issue, and that more men need to publicly stand against the objectification of women instead of letting it pass as a joke.
Gillis did apologize at the end of the show, but only for accidentally dropping an F-bomb during a sketch, not for the monologue itself. That’s left fans split between“it’s just comedy”and“the apology missed the point entirely.”So where do you land? Does a joke like this get a pass, or was Levy right to call it out?
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