“Women wearing short shorts at the gym does not make them whores,” responded Levy on an Instagram Reel. “It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There’s a difference there. By the way, I’ve seen more men’s nipples at the gym than I’ve ever seen women showing their bodies off.”
Levy, who hosted SNL himself back in 2021, also criticized the show for once again giving a hot mic to someone whose ugly views about women, the LGBTQ+ community, and non-white people got his ass canned before he ever took the Saturday Night Live stage. Continued Levy, “But I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television. And to be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to it because it’s complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted and it’s a ‘conversation’ as opposed to a ‘crime.'”
Gillis, who also did schtick in his monologue about his weight making him look “like a lesbian” and how not to straighten your hair the “gay” way, was preemptively called out before the show by TikTok influencer Grace Brassel, who dated the comic until last year. In her own online video posted prior to Gillis’ appearance, Brassel says her relationship with Gillis “stripped me of who I am” and that their breakup has seen her have to deal with torrents of abuse from Gillis’ fanbase, reinforcing Levy’s point.
Concluding his takedown of Gillis and SNL, Levy concluded, “This is not a women’s issue, this is an everybody issue. Because the more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men see them as objects and treat them as objects.” Snapping off his critique with a flourish, Levy ended, “They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, OK? And I’m sorry if this gets me in trouble with the internet, but fuck.'”
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