Amy Schumer’s Brotastic Feminism: Why the Trailblazing Comedienne Has Won Both Sexes Over

JULIE GLASSBERG/NYT via Redux
THE VOICE  - The Daily Beast 06.07.155:15 AM ETIsabel Schwab

The outspoken, hilarious, and brazenly feminist star of Inside Amy Schumer and the upcoming Trainwreck is the comedy voice of the Tinder age.

Accepting the Trailblazer Award at the Glamour UK Women of the Year event last week, Amy Schumer brazenly proclaimed in her speech, “I’m probably like 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want.” She shrugged as the audience laughed. “It’s not a problem.”

Her language—crude, bro-ish, self-congratulatory—is most of all, completely true. With the successful, Peabody-winning sketch comedy show on Comedy Central, Inside Amy Schumer, and a much buzzed-about Judd Apatow movie, Trainwreck, opening on July 17, Schumer seems pretty irresistible right now. Who wouldn’t want to be caught by her?  Read More

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