ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took time out of his Wednesday monologue to attack a college student who attended a recent Mike Pence speech at the University of Alabama for daring to be fearful that Democrats were redefining what it meant to be a woman. For Kimmel, the concern highlights why universities should “have another look at the minimum GPA required” for admission.
After going through some of the details of Pence’s talk, Kimmel reported: “And then they had a Q&A with the students and one of the young women, in particular, has some very serious concerns.”
Kimmel then played a video of the woman declaring: “As I wake up every day and I sometimes don't feel safe because I'm a woman and I feel that that's being taken away.”
Cutting her off, Kimmel asked, “Really? By who?” The video then resumed, “By our president.”
Whether Kimmel genuinely failed to understand the questioner’s concern or he simply didn’t care was hard to tell, but either way, he dismissed the concern, “Oh, whoa, Joe Biden's taking your vagina away? That’s, I mean, my god, the man can barely ride a bicycle.”
The irony was that some red states were seeking to prohibit the severing of minors’ body parts and people like Kimmel called them bigots for it, but here he was unwittingly acknowledging that being a woman (or a man) was biological and not a subjective feeling.
As for the student, she was then shown asking: “And I just want to know, do you think that's going to change in the near future, do you think that that's going to get better? Because I'm worried that the idea of being a woman is being taken away by the Democrats."
After Pence answered, “Well, let me assure you, help is on the way. Okay?” Kimmel returned:
That's right, Captain Lady Parts is here to save the day. The idea that a woman is asking Mike Pence about women's rights being taken away indicates to me they might want to have another look at the minimum GPA required to get into the University of Alabama, but Mike Pence loves this sort of thing because it's a kind of non-issue that his base absolutely feasts on.
Kimmel may dismiss the student’s concerns as a “non-issue,” but such concerns revolve around one of life’s most pressing questions: who am I and why does it matter?
This segment was sponsored by McDonald’s.
Here is a transcript for the April 12 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
4/12/2023
11:41 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: And then they had a Q&A with the students and one of the young women in particular has some very serious concerns.
STUDENT: As I wake up every day and I sometimes don't feel safe because I'm a woman and I feel that that's being taken away.
KIMMEL: Really? By who?
STUDENT: By our president.
KIMMEL: Oh, whoa, Joe Biden's taking your vagina away? That’s, I mean, my god, the man can barely ride a bicycle.
STUDENT: And I just want to know, do you think that's going to change in the near future, do you think that that's going to get better? Because I'm worried that the idea of being a woman is being taken away by the Democrats.
MIKE PENCE: Well, let me assure you, help is on the way. Okay?
KIMMEL: That's right, Captain Lady Parts is here to save the day. The idea that a woman is asking Mike Pence about women's rights being taken away indicates to me they might want to have another look at the minimum GPA required to get into the University of Alabama, but Mike Pence loves this sort of thing because it's a kind of nonissue that his base absolutely feasts on.
PENCE: The American people know the answer to the question "what is a woman." It's a female human being.
