Amy Schumer is one of the newest popular female comedians of today’s time. On her award-winning show, Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central her television show contains sketches where she challenges various issues through comedy. Gender is one of the main issues she challenges on her show.
In the sketch, Last Fuckable Day Amy finds her idols: Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the woods, and decides to join them for their celebration. Amy discovers that the women are celebrating Julia’s last fuckable day. They explain to Amy when women get to a certain age they are not fuckable anymore. Tina, Patricia, and Julia explain to her that all young women get the roles now. Patricia Arquette says that she didn’t get the role of …show more content…
She goes around asking random strangers who are men if she should take birth control. , Amy gets her birth control pills at the end of the sketch, but she learns she has to go through the same ridiculous cycle again. She is going to have to go to her doctor then ask random men if she should take birth control. Also, a little boy asks the pharmacist if he can have a gun, the man gives the little boy the gun then says, “Remember that’s your right.”. The sketch shows how double standards run not only in Hollywood but in the life of women who are not famous. Amy is just a woman who wants to receive birth control, and she is looked down for it. It’s crazy that she has to ask all these random guys if she can take birth control then not have her prescription be refilled, and has to go over the same cycle. First, it invades her privacy, the only person she should ask is her doctor. Secondly, her own doctor shouldn’t look down on her wanting to take precautions because that is a total double standard. Men use condoms has precautions. What’s the difference of a woman using birth control and men using condoms? Both genders are using precautions so they do not become parents because they are not ready or don’t want to have a
In the sketch, Last Fuckable Day Amy finds her idols: Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the woods, and decides to join them for their celebration. Amy discovers that the women are celebrating Julia’s last fuckable day. They explain to Amy when women get to a certain age they are not fuckable anymore. Tina, Patricia, and Julia explain to her that all young women get the roles now. Patricia Arquette says that she didn’t get the role of …show more content…
She goes around asking random strangers who are men if she should take birth control. , Amy gets her birth control pills at the end of the sketch, but she learns she has to go through the same ridiculous cycle again. She is going to have to go to her doctor then ask random men if she should take birth control. Also, a little boy asks the pharmacist if he can have a gun, the man gives the little boy the gun then says, “Remember that’s your right.”. The sketch shows how double standards run not only in Hollywood but in the life of women who are not famous. Amy is just a woman who wants to receive birth control, and she is looked down for it. It’s crazy that she has to ask all these random guys if she can take birth control then not have her prescription be refilled, and has to go over the same cycle. First, it invades her privacy, the only person she should ask is her doctor. Secondly, her own doctor shouldn’t look down on her wanting to take precautions because that is a total double standard. Men use condoms has precautions. What’s the difference of a woman using birth control and men using condoms? Both genders are using precautions so they do not become parents because they are not ready or don’t want to have a