Jeff Dye asks why Katt Williams gets a pass on misogyny

Jeff Dye went after Katt Williams in a post on X, arguing that Williams gets graded on a curve that Shane Gillis does not.

Dye's setup is simple. He says the same man who lectured Gillis for saying "Whore" is now hosting and promoting a book titled "Nine Lives, No Wives, And 69 Concubines." Then he asked the question that is doing all the work.

"So why does Katt get a pass on 'misogyny' and Shane doesn't??" Dye wrote. He tagged @kenanthompson at the end of the post.

What we actually know

Not much beyond Dye's version of it. The lecture he describes, the book title and the promotion are all things Dye says in his post. Nobody else has stepped in to confirm the details or to argue the other side.

That tag is the part people will stare at. Dye does not explain why Kenan Thompson is in the post, and he does not accuse him of anything. He just drops the handle at the bottom and lets it sit there.

Nobody has answered

Williams has not responded. Gillis has not responded. Thompson has not responded. So right now this is one comedian making a double standard argument into the void, which is a very different thing from a fight.

That matters for how you read it. A back and forth has two people defending positions and usually produces a clip worth watching. A single post has one person swinging, and it either gets picked up or it quietly disappears by the weekend.

The real story

Dye is not really defending a word here, he is arguing about who gets held to the standard. His claim is that the same behavior reads as misogyny when Gillis does it and as a bit when Williams does it, and that the people doing the judging never apply it evenly.

Whether that lands depends entirely on whether anyone with a bigger platform decides to pick it up. Until Williams or Gillis says something, it stays a one man argument with a book title attached.

Jeff Dye

@JeffDye

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So why does Katt get a pass on “misogyny” and Shane doesn’t??