‘SNL’ Just Exposed Its Most Troubling Double Standard With Shane Gillis' Episode

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For years, television has produced some truly remarkable moments of unexpected disasters during live broadcasts. However, the most memorable moments on Saturday Night Live don't get the same attention. Shane Gillis learned that when, during his third hosting gig on Saturday, October 10, he let slip an F-word on air during a skit, the audience reacted with discontent, and he apologized well before the show ended. Yet the episode’s more troubling moment wasn’t a slip of the tongue. It was a deliberate joke about women that made their bodies the punchline and treated men’s responsibility for their own behavior as an unreasonable demand.

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