By now, you’ve probably heard about the Kurt Metzger/Amy Schumer debacle. Her comedy has been
By now, you’ve probably heard about the Kurt Metzger/Amy Schumer debacle. Her comedy has been labelled as feminist, against rape, against ableism, body positive - does this now all change or are we asking her unfairly to represent all of feminism?Sady Doyle explains: “Most critics aren’t asking Schumer to stop liking Metzger. They’re asking her to stop paying him…Schumer can hang out with Metzger on her own time, but if we want to watch her show without abetting rape culture, Schumer needs to provide us with a show that doesn’t have Kurt Metzger in it.”More on Metzger’s troubling history of sexism and Schumer’s lack of reponse here.Photo credit: Amy Schumer -- source link
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