Are you one of the many men who find Amy Schumer too vulgar? If so, one magazine editor thinks you’re just plain sexist.
In an April 5 op-ed for InStyle magazine, Digital Beauty Editor Victoria Moorhouse slammed men who take issue with the crude comedian. During an evening out at the bar, the editor recalled mentioning Trainwreck, a film starring Schumer, to her male companion and getting an unexpected response.
“Oh, I don’t think she’s funny,” he stated.
As Moorhouse recounted: “My jaw dropped. We don’t all have the same sense of humor… but I was slightly shocked by this dude’s response. Inside Amy Schumer was a viral sensation; how could this guy not appreciate her as the comedy giant she is?”
After “rattling off” Schumer’s “list of accomplishments, hilarious sketches and endlessly retweeted jokes,” Moorhouse was “stopped dead in her tracks” by the man’s reasoning.
“She’s too vulgar,” he told her.
“My face reddened; I was incensed,” Moorhouse remembered. She knew her companion was referring to Schumer’s penchant for sexual topics — particularly vagina jokes. But since most male comedians make sex jokes too, Moorhouse felt that the man was hypocritical and thus “sexist.”
This is simply another example of liberal label-flinging. But here’s a newsflash: although the media love to praise her, lots of women also find Schumer too vulgar and completely unfunny. As MRC Culture associate editor Katie Yoder wrote in a FoxNews.com op-ed, Schumer “seems to hate women, calling her own mother a “c***” and treating abortions like they’re a punchline… She laughs at Christian women. She laughs at pro-life women. She laughs at women who don’t sleep around.”
Are Yoder and the women who agree with her “sexist,” or are they simply principled? And what about the men who dislike vulgar comedy of any kind – regardless of whether it’s from a male or female comedian? Are they “sexist?”
But the editor didn’t have the time or the inclination to address those questions.
“Hopefully, these double standards will disappear before I’m in my eighties,” Moorhouse concluded, “but until they do, it’s comforting to know that Amy Schumer will continue to point it out, make us laugh, and get real about her sex life—even if that means making lame dudes everywhere feel a little uncomfortable.”
Oh, please.
