Dan Levy Slams Shane Gillis' SNL Monologue: "Men Need to Be Defending Women"

Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live on October 10, and one joke from his monologue is still echoing around the internet. During the set, Gillis said women who wear short shorts to the gym look like“whores.”The reaction came fast, but the loudest response came from Dan Levy, who posted an Instagram video the next day calling the remarks misogynistic.

Levy didn’t just take issue with the joke itself. He argued that men need to actively push back against this kind of language because staying quiet lets it spread. As he put it,“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists.”He also pointed to complacency from men as part of what creates an environment where women are sexually assaulted. Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, and Barrett Wilbert Weed all voiced support for Levy in the comments.

Gillis has stayed quiet on the backlash so far, though he did apologize for accidentally dropping an f-bomb during the broadcast. So now the debate is wide open: where’s the line between edgy comedy and harmful rhetoric, and who gets to decide? Drop your take in the comments below.