I'm also tired of this attitude that Schumer shouldn't even be famous simply because she's "ugly and fat", according to some immature teenage dudes whose idea of beauty is apparently only stick-thin actresses who looks like skeletons. Schumer looks more like the average woman than most Hollywood actresses, which is another reason audiences (especially women) find her so relatable--and, frankly, I don't think she's either one. I don't know what's wrong with the dudes who keep saying that. Mainly because you see fat male comedians making it all the time, and nobody is constantly saying that they're too fat to even be popular comedians. There have been even ugly male comedians time and time again but they always get a pass because they're men----you rarely hear somebody whining about how ugly or fat a male comedian to the exclusive of damn near anything else about him---I mean, damn,women aren't here just to look good to men all the damn time.
I don't think any comments of that nature are taken seriously, though, and certainly the majority of female comedy actors aren't conventionally good-looking (Melissa McCarthy, Rosie O'Donnell, Roseanne Barr etc.) That has very little bearing on what I think of Schumer, anyway. I think people like Whitney Cummings and Iliza Shlesinger are probably worse comedians, even though they're conventionally more attractive.
What irritates me about Schumer is that, at the end of the day, it's all about making her look good - even if it's ostensibly making her seem like a "trainwreck". It's the covert self-aggrandisement of it all which jars with me, which is certainly not something exclusive to her - although I think she is getting more of a free pass because it's "fresh & exciting" when, like you say, a woman does what men have been doing for decades. That doesn't make it good, though, if anything it makes it even more disappointing.
In the case of Trainwreck, it may be partly down to Judd Apatow as well, who seems incapable of having a protagonist who's anything other than basically perfect in the audience's eyes. "Sure, they've got their issues, but who hasn't?!" Seth Rogen's character in Knocked Up is a pretty good example; he's just this kooky kind of loser with a good heart, while Katherine Heigl is just a screeching harridan with very few redeeming features. Apatow's certainly not a very feminist filmmaker, as far as I'm concerned, which made it all the more cringeworthy when he tried (and failed) to do so here.
As for Schumer, I don't think she's a bad person or anything. At the end of the day, she's a celebrity, and she's fulfilling all celebrity criteria (including getting political, more recently). That's fine, most of them do it, but for the most part she seems to be getting praise for what others may have received derision or indifference. And then in two years we'll have a different "woman comedian we love". The irritating thing is that there are genuinely great female comics and comic actors, but they're not as business-/publicity-minded as Schumer is. 'Twas ever thus, but it's still a pretty dire situation that public image speaks louder than talent. I hope that at least somewhat explains my view on it. If you found the movie funny and relatable, more power to you, I certainly don't want to try and take that away from anyone. I just think we can do better.
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