Opinion of Amy Schumer

[Old Man Willow]

According to Milo she is a product of a feminist conspiracy to promote overweight, unattractive women.

[Old Man Willow]

Ff, duh.

I'm less interested in what you all think about Amy Schumer than what we are supposed to think about her, according to progressive and/or "woke" thought-leaders, particularly those of color, whose views are the ones, as we are repeatedly told, are the ones we should be listening to.

What the heck does that even mean?

I'm assuming this thread is in response to the thing Amy Schumer did which wasn't very progressive or, I hazard, hurtful to marginalized and oppressed people. I don't recall what this thing was, but I recall reading about it. I also recall reading the corresponding takes that said that this thing meant that Schumer wasn't a very good feminist, and was ignorant of the need to take an intersectional approach to her thinking. Lena Dunham was also accused of the same offense, although in her case I know what the thing she did wrong actually was. One provided a list of "good" feminists in popular culture to look up to, most of whom were "women of color" and were overtly ideological and intersectional.

The direct inference of this, and the broader inference from the prevalent discourse on feminism, race, and intersectionalism, is that there is a "correct" way to view the world, informed by the "correct" set of beliefs on how it works, which is generally described as being "woke", and might be described less glibly as having an intersectional and race, gender, class, ableness, sexual, and privilege-conscious outlook. I don't think I need to go into depth as to the beliefs adjunct to this outlook; but the question I asked can be summarized as asking what a person with this outlook-- which is the correct outlook-- would think, or should think about Amy Schumer, taking into account all of the above.

I made this thread in response to Milo's ABC interview, in which he implied there is a feminist conspiracy to make Schumer and Dunham popular.

[Old Man Willow]

Her standup special from a few years ago "Mostly Sex Stuff" was hilariously laugh out loud funny. I saw a few episodes of her Comedy Central show but soon lost interest. She was so vile and gross during her monologue when she hosted SNL I was surprised they allowed it to air. So aside from SNL she is awesome.

I don't get the Lena Dunham hate. She's the voice of her generation, she said that herself and I tend to believe it.

People claim she molested her sister.