Comedy CentralJessica Williams may be the next rising star from The Daily Show with her own show in her future.
Jon Stewart's senior correspondent of whatever is relevant at any given time took on sexism on last night's episode and promptly destroyed any of the crackpot theories out there which purport that men are the ones who are put upon in today's over-feminized culture and, hey, "boys will be boys." (Lots of clips from Fox News are provided to prove that that point of view is out there.)
Williams invited skeptics to join her "fun world" as a gal with a great job, noting that, what for most men would be a "calm, boring commute," is for her a daily beauty pageant.
Cue the complete strangers at the construction site who tell her she looks nice and ask what her name is and the random security guy who tells her she likes her hair. So Williams comes up with a solution: All she has to do is completely change the route she takes to work to avoid the "teenagers hanging out at the bodega" and "the creepy old guys playing dominoes," and somehow try to avoid "Wall Street douches, white guys, Latino guys, black guys, Middle Eastern guys—really any men." It only takes her 55 extra minutes to get to work, and she's getting so much exercise!
"How could any women possibly be bothered by this?" she wonders.
So you can imagine how not surprised Williams is when she sits down with a group of women who are just plain sick of being objectified right and left. (Or appreciated for how they're different from men, as one pundit observed earlier in this insta-classic segment.)
Having to wonder if firing a comeback at one of these complimentary gents is going to put her safety at risk is another concern these women have... And cue Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle insisting during The Five that the catcalling guys "mean it in a nice way, I think, like they find you attractive or they just want to pay you a compliment." Then Fox News' Kirsten Powers saying that when she was younger she didn't like it, but now that she's older, if it doesn't happen she's offended.
Sigh.
Try telling that to the member of Williams' focus group who recalled a guy once coming up to her on the street and telling her he wanted to "s--t on her t-ts."
Watch the full clip—everyone should—and don't miss Jessica finally concluding where a woman is safe from catcalling in New York City while out in public—oh wait, there's actually pretty much nowhere—and her rules and tips for avoiding trouble if a woman dares walk outside wearing anything, looking anywhere or doing something.