Oh, Amy Schumer.
Are you the Internet answer to “Can’t Get Right” or what?
As if your confused friend Lena Dunham didn’t make a big enough fool of herself with a highly questionable, self-obsessed rant about why a grown, independent man (and fellow celeb, TBH) didn’t jump out of his skin to make friends with her at the Met Gala.
I won’t make you suffer through her neurotic musings in this space, but if you care to look into the mind of a narcissist, follow this link and then come right back. I’ll wait.
Alright, after wisely atoning for the highly problematic content of her character, using all the right buzzwords in all the right places, it seems that she tagged in “comic” Schumer to take her place as the town dunce.
Exhibits A through Z: This tweet that Mic.com caught before Schumer, in an act of belated logic, attempted to erase it from the Twittersphere.
(Good looking out, Mic!)
“Who is hollerin at you in the street more pa?”
Let’s drink that in for a moment, shall we?
Is this Cabbage Patch Kid come to life a statistician unbeknownst to us? Has she, in addition to stunt casting LeBron James in her aptly named Trainwreck, taken up polling women to see if men of color are the biggest offenders in catcalling? Or perhaps she has the aid of an Eye in the Sky to scan the land and catch more of these minority men hissing, whistling and admiring the ladies of the planet?
In any case, I will need to see ALL the receipts on her secret career.
Madame Schumer is opening up a very dangerous lane and one that is fraught with racial, socioeconomic and cultural stereotypes. Since, based on her show, movies and supposedly cute commentary on race, she gives the distinct impression she lives in a pretty homogeneous world….one similar to “Girls” in the lack of anything more colorful than the dialogue in her script. It would serve her well not to anoint herself the Minister of Multicultural Catcalling.
In fact, her best chance at a title would be Minister of Misinformation and/or Minister of Misguided Tweets. I’ll politely invite her to log off social for a bit and reconsider her position. I’m sure it’ll be difficult for her to reflect and concentrate, what, with all these men of color pursuing her up the street.
Pardon me, while my eyes roll all the way back until I’m comatose.