Michael Che Clarifies Reaction to Shane Gillis’ Divisive SNL Monologue

“please. stop saying i hate women,” Che continued. “i only hate like 6 of them. (and THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DID!) the other 4,049,999,996 is alright with me!”

And as for Gillis’ censure of female gym apparel, Che had one message for women.

“wear whatever the f–k you want,” he concluded. “squat nekkid.”

But while Che had initially attempted to skirt answering direct questions from Jarrett about the now-infamous monologue, other male celebrities were far less hesitant to share their opinion.

Most notably, within hours of SNL ending Dan Levy said he’d been left “speechless” by the fact the monologue had made it to air with the joke left intact.

“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them wh–es,” the Schitt’s Creek alum said in his Oct. 11 video. “It makes the men calling them wh–es misogynists. There’s a difference there.”

He also encouraged men from all walks of life to call out such misogyny.

“To be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to it,” he said, “because it’s complacency that has created the environment with which women are sexually assaulted, and it’s a conversation as opposed to a crime. Men need to be defending women more. This is not a women’s issue. This is an everybody issue.”

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