Often, the tragedy is in the lack of self awareness of the people being made fun of, and lets just say that modern western women are ripe for such ridicule.  No other group in history has enjoyed this level of unfettered privilege and protection.  So much protection, in fact, that you're not even allowed to make jokes about their bad behavior. 

The term "modern woman" largely refers to liberal women in first world countries, and the feminist idealism surrounding these women is truly bizarre.  The political left views them as untouchable pure spirits; the pinnacle of human evolution, the most benevolent and morally superior beings on the planet.  Everything they say is rooted in feelings, therefore everything they say is right.  Logic and reason are considered masculine evils that poison the waters and get in the way of the otherwise perfect feminine perspective. 

Of course, this is complete nonsense.  Liberal women are some of the most selfish, arrogant, petty, degenerate and violent creatures the human species has ever produced; they just express their violence through mob aggression and sabotage rather than direct action.  They prefer to get other people (or the government) to brutalize their enemies on their behalf (cancel culture). 

And the one thing that will make you an enemy of modern women faster that anything else is exposing their narcissism and laughing at their expense.  This is simply not done in a civilized and progressive society.

Comedian Shane Gillis is very familiar with this problem; he's been the target of feminist cancel culture more than a few times.  In 2026 the power of cancel culture is waning and comedy seems to be making a comeback, but that doesn't mean modern women are going to stop clinging to the power they once had.  They continue to look for ways to stifle and suppress honest speech, but all they have to fall back on right now is the old standbys of "shame" and their allies in the mainstream media.  

Gillis' most recent appearance on Saturday Night Live is a good example (a show he was fired from in 2019 because of old podcast clips in which he used naughty words to make fun of liberal candidates like Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders).  Gillis ripped on modern women going to public gyms in "whore" clothing that makes them look almost naked.  In the process he may have inadvertently touched on the most taboo subject for feminists, which is their demand that women's promiscuity and addiction to attention be socially normalized. 

Men are not allowed to judge anything a woman wears, nor anything she does to feed that addiction.

The world of cellar crowd comedy is typically no-holds-barred and is meant to be offensive in order to cut to the ugly truth of an issue.  This is the kind of comedy America needs once again.  The fact that Gillis has been invited back on a left-leaning production like SNL is a testament to the public demand for scathing humor.  It's undeniable - everyone is tired of Karens trying to ruin our fun.