Amy Schumer broke into a boys’ club. Now she wants to blow it up
Schumer offered a warning to those men — “we are watching you and we are all together now” — and an open call to their victims: She was there to listen. A phone number from an app that allows anyone to send her texts sat prominently in her profile. Soon, Schumer’s inbox was so flooded with #MeToo tales that she began reaching out to other famous women about trying to set up some sort of a help line.
“It’s all been really sad and disappointing,” she says now, sprawled out on a couch on the other side of a Manhattan hotel room in early February. “And I don’t think that the coercion and the taking advantage and the masturbating in front of people is cool, and I don’t think that those guys should be allowed to come back.”
Schumer, who exploded into the public consciousness with a few filthy minutes at Comedy Central’s roast of Charlie Sheen in 2011 and an aptly titledspecial the following year, is keenly aware of the opportunity that she has to make a difference, and she doesn’t want to squander it. It propelled her decision to stump for Hillary Clinton, to
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