Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Ego Nwodim appeared to respond to Shane Gillis’ controversial monologue from his latest hosting stint Saturday, during which he said that women who wear short shorts to the gym are “whores.”
\n\n“Whore reporting for duty,” Nwodim captioned an Instagram story Monday that featured a photo of her in the gym wearing black leggings, a black long-sleeve shirt and a black baseball hat.
\n\nShe then posted a photo of her post-workout meal, writing, “Getting my 30 grams of protein in after heauxing,” with “heauxing” being slang for “whoring.”
\n\nGillis’ monologue garnered backlash online in the days since, with people calling the raunchy comedian “tone deaf” for making a comment about women’s bodies, especially as the country reckons with a sexual assault scandal out of Cornell University.
\n\nIn the seven-minute, stand-up style monologue, Gillis claimed he “didn’t know women just dress like whores now” at the gym. He went on to describe the “neon, artificial-vape colored” shorts that women are wearing to work out, and the fact that men are not allowed to look at women in those shorts.
\n\nActor Dan Levy also joined the conversation Sunday night. In a selfie-video posted to Instagram, he said…
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