I think it matters when someone who’s brand is built around supposedly being this empowered woman voice still chooses to keep a rape apologist (and essentially a rape activist, as he actually calls himself “pro rape”) close to her as a personal friend. That matters and needs to be examined by the public that she’s…

That might make sense if her friend were not deliberately and aggressively contributing to a culture of rape. Since the issues of rape and the culture that foster rape are quite obviously bound up together, it is nonsensical to pretend his statements and actions are benign.

She is more than his friend. She is his EMPLOYER. How many of us would be fine if we had a coworker who spewed this atrocious garbage, and our boss said that the jackhole in question was ‘their friend’ that they loved and didn’t fire them?

Yeah, if I found out a friend was harassing women online and creating fake Facebook accounts posing as these women in order to defame them, I’d kick them to the curb in a heartbeat. Just as I have with friends that went on terrifying, borderline-violent racist rants. It’s not that hard.

I judge people by the company they keep. The way shitty people get away with shitty people is because they’re always going to be somebody’s father/son/mother/daughter/cousin/favorite uncle/best friend/soul mate/pen pal. Maybe it’s because I moved a bunch as a kid, but the idea that people are supposed to be in your…

Here’s the thing. She can’t call herself a feminist and still support people like Kurt. This isn’t the first time she’s said or done problematic stuff. She really should immerse herself in intersectional feminism and the movement to stop sexual assault/rape to better understand these issues. I’m sick of celebs hiding…

Did she actually fire him? They already wrapped filming for the next season of the show. She has danced around if he will be back when they come back for season 5. I honestly think she's hoping this will die down and she can still employ him even if it's only behind the camera.

Did she fire him? She says she didn’t in a tweet. He’s not working for the show right now because she’s touring and they’re not making it at the moment.

Not at all what I’m saying. I’m saying that I don’t like her equivocation. I’m saying that her actions don’t align with her words. Hell, her words don’t align with her words.

I am SO DONE with Amy Schumer. I’ve given this lady enough chances. She no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt. She’s constantly equivocating over issues like this. Take a fucking stand, Amy, or else step off the damn podium.

Kurt Metzger has been a BIG problem for Amy Schumer since 2013. She has done nothing about him but promote him, which he shoved in the faces of the women he was stalking on the internet. If she’s going to market herself (and boy is it marketing) as a feminist and a supporter of women, the very least she can do is get…

But if she's still employing him, or if there's a question as to whether she's still employing him, then it's not unreasonable for people to ask if she's still employing him, and if so why.

So based on all her tweets, Kurt isn't fired because she's hoping by the time season 5 goes into production this will all have blown over. So fuck you Amy for not having a fucking backbone.

I’m seriously baffled by the comments here. I don’t feel “entitled” to Amy. I barely follow her career. But Jesus. She’s not infallible. Let’s not pretend she isn’t problematic in general. Her superficial feminism has always bothered me anyway.

This is an article about how misogynistic and harassing Metzger is. It’s from three years ago. Amy has known about this for a while, as have any comedian working today:

she’s known who he was for years. He’s been attacking women non-stop for years. Since at least 2013. She knows him, she put up with it, she was questioned many, many times about it. She appeased him until he went so far it made national news. They’re both assholes. You do not do that if you support women.

Believe it or not, you can be mad at Schumer for employing a longtime misogynist and rape apologist AND be mad at Metzger for being a longtime misogynist and rape apologist AND be mad at the actual rapist.

Can we not forget that when women cape for rapists or apologists, that not only makes it worse for victims but sends a message that those victims shouldn’t be listened to since this woman is saying those guys are “alright”?