The fight against gender bias in Hollywood has ramped up in the last few weeks with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Jessica Chastain all speaking out against pay gaps and inequality.
And now Amy Schumer is fighting the good fight for comedians, telling the audience of her HBO special, Amy Schumer: Live At The Apollo, how she is only labelled a ‘sex comic’ because of her gender.
‘I’m labelled a sex comic, like that’s in interviews and people are all like “So you talk about sex?” and I think it’s because I’m a girl,’ Amy says. ‘I feel like a guy could get up here and literally pull his dick out, and everyone would be like, “He’s a thinker.”‘
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