Why The Shane Gillis Outrage Isn't About The Joke

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Why The Shane Gillis Outrage Isn't About The Joke

So I wasn't going to do a take on the whole situation with Shane Gillis, but you know what, fuck it, the outrage was never about the joke in the first place. The best way that I can describe what's happening with this internet outrage is it's basically the Salem witch trials with a fucking like button, because accusing somebody was how you showed the whole town that you were one of the godly ones, and the louder you pointed, the more righteous you looked.

Look at the order these things happened in.

First, Sydney Sweeney does basically a nude ad for a sports betting app, a company that she actually has equity in, by the way. The angle of the ad was women in sports. And what did women do? Well, they decided they wanted to take that line and run with it to figure out a way to make it about them.

Then a comedian, Shane Gillis, goes on Saturday Night Live and makes a joke about the way women dress at the gym, calling them whores, and the internet loses its mind for round two.

A lot of the same women that made Sydney's ad about them, they're the same exact ones that are mad at Shane now for criticizing them. So follow the logic on that, right? When they criticize a woman's sexual presentation, that's advocacy. That's protecting women's sports. When a man does it, it's misogyny and he needs to be pulled off the air. The only thing that changed is who's allowed to say it.

Freedom of expression isn't a one way street. Sydney Sweeney had every right in the world to do that ad, and people have every right to look at that ad and say, that's trash.

But that's not what these women want. They want to be able to express whatever they want, however they want, and then make it socially illegal for you to have a reaction to it.

Because the way that you choose to present yourself, that's the way people are going to perceive you. If your body is the main character of every single thing that you post, you don't get to act shocked when people respond to your body.

There's a hard line here and I'm not blurring it. Nothing that you wear and nothing that you post gives any man the right to harass you or put his hands on you, period. The man answers for his conduct 100% of the time. He answers for how he treats you, and you answer for the perception you've built. Both of those are true at the same time.

The accountability dodge works in a pretty predictable pattern once you see it. You don't answer the criticism, you flip it into an attack on all women, attach yourself to whatever trend is blowing up that week, and the label flips with it, because now you're an advocate standing up for your gender instead of someone who just got called out. And the part that nobody wants to admit is that buying into these trends pays because the trend hands out attention to everybody that climbs on board.

So my question is, why does a joke like that make people lose their minds in the first place? Well, there's actually research on this. Psychologists have described for decades how self-esteem isn't one fixed number sitting in your head, it moves up and down based on how you're doing in the specific areas where you've staked your worth.

So if your entire sense of self-worth is based around, we'll say, your appearance and the approval that comes with it, then one comment about the way that you look isn't just a comment anymore. That's a direct attack on the thing that's holding your whole identity up.

There's a second layer nobody says out loud. A joke only lands on you because some part of it is true, and that's literally what makes jokes funny. Good comedians say the thing people won't admit, in a way that makes you laugh instead of flinch.