Amy Schumer on finding self confidence

Reminded me of some discussions around here. She's a 6!

 

I'm a well-documented SNL fan.

And 12 Angry Men was better than anything SNL has done in the last 15 years. (OK, Dick in a Box was in the ballpark. But that's it.)

 

It was brilliant and it says a lot about how well-respected Schumer is by her ability to pull in some of these guest stars like Quaid, Goldblum and Giamatti, not to mention Fey and Louis-Dreyfus from earlier this season.

 

British writer Caitlin Moran may have put it best: Amy Schumer “tore the fucking roof off” [June 2] with a hilarious NSFW acceptance speech at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards.

Accepting the award for Trailblazer of the Year at the London event, Schumer was at once bawdy, empowering and wonderfully unpretentious.

“I’m like 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want, and that’s the truth,” she said at the start of her speech to wild applause.

Schumer joked about how female comedians are typically treated poorly in photo shoots, and slammed some women’s magazines for making you feel “bad for just being born with a pussy.” She also gave a shout-out to actress Goldie Hawn, who was at the event, for being “beautiful and vulnerable and fucking hilarious.”

Amy Schumer's Totally Real, Rad And NSFW Glamour Awards Acceptance Speech

 

Girl goes to her doctor, "How many calories are there in sperm?"
Doctor said, "Believe me, if you swallow nobody gives a fuck how fat you are."

 

Racist jokes, or do we all need to get a sense of humor:

Last month, in a piece for the Daily Dot, Anne Thériault argued that Schumer had essentially been granted a pass on jokes that were insulting to minorities because the culture has been so eager to embrace her as the new, fresh comedic voice of feminism.

"... while her work is being called subversive and transgressive, the truth is that many of her jokes aren't as enlightened as they might seem," Thériault wrote. "Take, for example, a bit where she says, 'I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer consensual!' No matter how you parse this joke, it's racist and awful. It's not a smart critique of rape culture. It's a white woman blithely saying that all Latino men are rapists."
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When Schumer hosted the MTV Movie Awards in April, she made a joke about Latinas.

“‘Gone Girl,’ how good was ‘Gone Girl’? Such a good movie,” Schumer said. “If you didn’t see it, it’s the story of what one crazed white woman, or all Latinas, do if you cheat on them. That’s a fact.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-schumer-racist-jokes-20150630-htmlstory.html

 

Pretty funny.

 

I'm offended by her unfunniness.

 

Yeah, but it leads to what happened in Charleston, and turns women into helpless victims:

The commonality here is white women who are trading on the fear of men of color as unclean pillagers of virtue. That fear has been exploited to justify decades of racial terrorism, including as recently as two weeks ago when witnesses said Charleston shooter Dylann Roof killed nine worshippers at the historically black Emmanuel A.M.E church after telling them that "you rape our women." This type of benevolent sexism doesn't just damage men of color, but hurts white women, too. It suggests that they're helpless and delicate and in need of saving. It robs them of their agency.

 

Doesn't know what you're talking about...

 

Someone needs to get laid.