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Thursday, February 1, 2018
Amy Schumer: I"ve Been "Flat-Out Raped"
Amy Schumer has made a living joking about sex.
She even got VERY candid about giving her then-boyfriend a blow job last March.
But the comedian is very much aware that sexual assault is no laughing matter, and she’s here to tell her full story about an unfortunate past experience in this realm.
“I’ve been flat-out raped,” Schumer told Katie Couric this week for the reporter’s Wonder Women podcast series.
Such an admission marks the first time Schumer has used this word when describing her troubled history.
In her autobiography, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, Schumer did write about how her first sexual encounter was NOT consensual.
She also opened up about the incident to Marie Claire in 2016, telling the magazine at the time:
“My first sexual experience was not a good one.”
Schumer told Howard Stern something similar that same year, saying she fell asleep one night alongside her high school boyfriend and woke up with him inside of her.
She did not press charges.
She even stayed with the boyfriend and found herself comforting him at times over what had happened.
“People, they want you to have been raped perfectly, and they want you to be a perfect victim,” Schumer told Stern, explaining how sexual assaults vary and the types of victims very.
At the end of the day, however, non-consensual sex is non-consensual sex.
“We’re so critical and it makes victims really not wanna speak up,” Schumer added.
That was in 2016.
Fast forward nearly two years and we’re in the middle of a #MeToo movement in which women are finally starting to feel empowered and in which sexual assault is at last being treated like the very serious issue that it is.
Recalling this same incident with her high school boyfriend, Schumer told Couric:
“I didn’t think about it until I started reading my journal again.
“When it happened, I wrote about it almost like a throwaway. It was like, ‘And then I looked down and realized he was inside of me. He was saying, I’m so sorry and I can’t believe I did this."”
She continued:
“This was 17 years ago. There are just so many factors. I had another time with a boyfriend where I was saying, ‘No, stop,’ and it was just completely ignored.”
Schumer now realizes that none of this was okay.
Moreover, Schumer says flat-out rape or assault is easy to identify.
But there are plenty of other situation that also require women to speak out and men to shape up.
“If you have a doctor that makes you uncomfortable, or you get a massage, or you have a date with someone and they coerce you in a situation like the Aziz [Ansari] one, I don’t think there’s any sort of criminal charge, but I think that it’s good for everybody to learn that that behavior’s not acceptable,” she says.
“It’s not a crime, but it’s not cool. And it can still really mess with a woman.”
In this case, Schumer is referring to Aziz Ansari being accused of sexual misconduct after going on a date with a woman who claims she repeatedly made it clear to the star that she did not want to go as far physically as he wanted to go.
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Alexa Ray Joel: Christie Brinkley Daughter Claps Back When Called "Hideous" by Troll!
We don’t know what kind of bitter troll feels a need to leave nasty comments that compare the beauty of sisters, but one Instagram user did just that.
Their rude post compared Christie Brinkley’s oldest daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, to her 19-year-old daughter, Sailor Brinkley Cook. The troll used the opportunity to bash Alexa’s looks.
Alexa, unafraid to clap back at haters, gave a response so strong that the troll deleted his comment and ran for the hills. Metaphorically speaking.
Christie Brinkley and her daughters are sizzling hot. That shouldn’t really be up for debate. It’s barely subjective.
Nonetheless, some guy out there thinks that Alexa Ray Joel, (Christie’s daughter with Billy Joel), is unattractive.
At this point, you must be worried that this person has some sort of visual impairment. We wondered the same thing.
But no, this person was able to appreciate the gorgeous looks of Alexa’s younger sister, Sailor Brinkley Cook.
And he said as much after proud, gorgeous mom Christie Brinkley shared a behind-the-scenes look at Sailor’s photoshoot.
She’s stunning, right?
We can understand the natural human instinct to rank things. (I love making lists, even if it’s hard to choose a favorite movie, a favorite video game, a favorite Brinkley daughter)
What we can’t understand is why someone would use this as an opportunity to bash Alexa.
Specifically, why anyone would feel the need to straight-up post their negativity. Maybe some people just feel powerful if they hurt a famous person’s feelings.
Some dude decided to describe Alexa as “hideous” in a now-deleted comment.
Alexa’s epic clapback, however, is still standing.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Mr. Big Shot.”
Them’s fightin’ words, as they say.
“You may think I’m hideous, but I like the way I look.”
To be clear, most people like the way that Alexa looks.
Then her retort continues:
“And that’s really all the matters.”
She’s right — her own self-image matters more than what others think.
“(Besides, there’s a lot more to people than just what they look like.)”
And then, well, Alexa tells it like it is.
“But hey, continue being a shallow, hateful troll in life and see where it gets you!”
Quite frankly, this dude shouldn’t be surprised that she saw it and replied.
First of all, he probably wouldn’t have posted something so obviously inflammatory (and hyperbolic — he called her hideous?!) if he didn’t want to get a rise out of someone. Out of either Alexa herself or another fan.
Second of all, Alexa is not shy about discourse in Instagram comments. Seriously, and you can look at her page for yourself, she’ll talk politics with absolutely anyone.
(For the record, she mostly hopes for conciliatory politicians to make decisions for everyone; she talks about wanting things like Wall Street held accountable when they do wrong but also valuing prosperity. So her views definitely aren’t extreme)
Trolling is all good and well until you meet someone who won’t back down and whose fans will absolutely tear you to shreds.
And, again — though it’s not really the point of this whole thing — Alexa Ray Joel is absolutely gorgeous.
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