“I followed all the rules!!” Beck Bennett’s fake male feminist whines as he’s pushed from view after striking out with Cecily Strong in Saturday Night Live’s latest digital short, “Girl at a Bar.” (Not to be confused with Strong’s popular, recurring “Weekend Update” character “The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party.”) His attitude—that if you support women’s rights, you’re entitled to some action—is played for laughs as first Bennett, then Kyle Mooney, then Mikey Day, and, finally, Alex Moffat (in a spectacular pussy hat) try and fail to score with Strong. After taking punches at members of the Trump administration and craven Republicans throughout the night, S.N.L. finally gave liberals a reason to cringe with self-recognition.

Proving that no subculture (if we want to call feminism a “subculture”) is immune to being co-opted, the male cast members of S.N.L. trotted out all the greatest hits of woke modern feminism. Name-dropping Kamala Harris, attending the Women’s March, and sporting “The Future Is Female” shirts all become tactics used to score points—or, really, just score—with women. It’s the old “enroll in a Women’s Studies class in order to pick up girls” approach taken to an extreme. As the interactions get increasingly extreme (Moffat’s look is truly outrageous), the sketch is capped off by an appearance from Aidy Bryant, who takes the premise in for a soft landing with an inappropriate overture of her own.