Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer is one of the most incisive and brutally honest feminist commentaries in mainstream media today. The skit “Compliments” (about the inability of women, especially younger women, to hear nice things about themselves without resorting to self-deprecation) is a small masterpiece, while the “A Very Realistic Military Game” is a searing (and necessary) critique of rape in the military and casual misogyny among video-gamers.
To be so frank about sex and sexism requires the language to talk about those matters candidly. At a Paley Center panel for the New York Comedy Festival, creator and star Amy Schumer, executive producer Dan Powell, and head writer Jessi Klein revealed that Powell fought with Comedy Central to use the word “pussy” on the show.
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[via Vulture]
