When I first found out about her (and liked her), I looked her up and found out that she’d been a “cool girl” on Opie and Anthony. Back then, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed that she had “evolved” as a person and a comedian and had left that “shtick” in her past. How wrong I was, LOL. That was not just…
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I thought it was telling when she said that she asked Kurt to stop posting because it would reflect badly on her. She didn’t want him to stop because his posts were vile trash that perpetuated rape culture. She wanted him to stop because she didn’t want to deal with criticism.
For everyone saying stop holding Schumer responsible for a man’s actions/words: you’re missing the point.
But, dude, he totally has a black best friend! Don’t you know anything?!?
Being friends with someone like Kurt Metzger is similar to being friends with an addict. It comes down to that person loving drama more than they value their relationships/reputation/livelihood and having shitty boundaries.
It’s taken literal YEARS of this asshole actively demeaning, dehumanizing and outright scaring women online to get any real attention to it. He has chased women offline in the past. He’s had articles written on him. 3 whole years of it and he could laugh it all off (and he did) until this—and this was one of the most…
Once a Cool Girl doing regular spots on Opie and Anthony, always a Cool Girl. Even when “feminism” is your new bread and butter, eh, Amy?
I’ve been following this story for a couple of years. Looks like this time, Amy and Kurt are both being found out. It’s about damn time. her use of feminism has been a shameful and transparent grab for fame. She’s used women—we’re just happy to have any representation at all, so it’s understandable. But people need to…
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.
I didn’t think to include harass women. I tried rape comments and didn’t have great results. It seems that Amy Schumer was contacted several times but refused to comment. That’s fairly concrete proof. Your Google fu is better than mine, and I concede she likely saw these. Shame.
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…
Well, there have been several articles written about him by Lindy West and others that are very easily found on the internet and some of the first things that come up when you google the shithead’s name. You are believing what you want to believe here. She’s been confronted about him a bunch of times on Twitter by…
She was the boss. She could easily fire one of her writers if she wanted. Besides, she never fired him. He “no longer writes for her” because her show is over and it has no writers now. She’s been hedging the whole time. Typical.
Oh, I get that.
I don’t think she fired him. I think she’s using Clintonesque levels of language to avoid the issue until production starts next season when she’s planning on hiring him again. Writers are hired on a contract for certain number of weeks, at this moment he is not employed by the show because the show isn’t in…
Maybe there was a contract involved and the network didn’t want to pay it out until he drew too much negative attention. Just because someone works for you doesn’t mean firing them is your decision.
seriously!!!! especially when your show is comprised of feminist and anti-rape culture skits.
Commenting to bump. Metzger is truly vile and I hope everyone has the chance to read his “paper” trail to realize the extent of his awfulness.
I’m pretty much suspicious of anyone who’s friends with or seems likely to have appeared on the Opie and Anthony Show.