Comedian Shane Gillis is facing backlash after making a joke during his monologue on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, suggesting that “women just dress like whores” at gyms.
“I haven’t been to the gym in ages, and I didn’t realize women just dress like whores these days,” Gillis quipped during his recent appearance on SNL.
“Honestly, there’s no other way to put it… have you seen it? I’ve seen it. Those shorts. Have you seen those shorts?” he added, addressing the audience directly.
Gillis further joked about women wearing revealing clothes at the gym and then getting upset if men glance at them, saying, “And don’t look. You’re not allowed to look.”
“Really, don’t look, because they’re filming. I think I’m in the background of, like, ten TikToks right now,” he continued with a laugh.
Social media users quickly reacted to Gillis’ comments, expressing their disappointment.
“My wife and I bought tickets for his Chicago show a while back and no joke we walked out in the first 15 minutes,” one Reddit user shared and called Gillis “one of those ‘everything is allowed in comedy’ type morons,” further labeling him as racist, sexist, and homophobic.
“I hate this guy,” another user stated bluntly. “He wants to be the pied piper of knuckle-dragging idiots so badly.”
“What am I, as a woman, supposed to wear at the gym?” a third user complained, adding, “This is just ridiculous, ugly, right-wing nonsense.”
“The worst thing anyone can say about women is that we wear shorts,” noted another. “How dare women wear SHORTS while EXERCISING?”
Actor Dan Levy also criticized Gillis, calling the comedian a “misogynist” and suggesting that his joke reflects a kind of “complacency” that contributes to “sexual assault.”
“Women wearing shorts at the gym doesn’t make them whores,” Levy stated plainly, adding, “It makes the men who call them that misogynists.”
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“I’m honestly speechless that something like that can be said on live national television,” continued the star of Schitt’s Creek. “And to be perfectly honest, more men need to speak out against it.”
“Because it’s complacency that has led to the environment where women are sexually assaulted, and it’s seen as a ‘conversation’ rather than a ‘crime,’” Levy elaborated.
He urged men to “stand up” for women, asserting, “This isn’t just a women’s issue; it’s everybody’s issue.”
“As men continue to objectify women in media, other men begin to see them as objects and treat them accordingly,” he added. “They are not objects; they are superior human beings to men.”
“And I’m sorry if this might get me in trouble online, but honestly,” Levy concluded, “that’s how I feel.”
