Amy Schumer fans have been waiting eagerly for the speech that writer Caitlin Moran said “tore the fucking roof off” and Kerry Washington said “gave [her] life.”
Accepting Glamour’s Trailblazer Award, Schumer hilariously stuck it to women’s magazines for projecting unrealistic beauty standards — even though Glamour, one of the most popular women’s magazines in the U.S., was bestowing her with the award.
“Some [women’s magazines] make you feel bad for just being born with a pussy.” Yet Schumer has respect for Glamour, because it was the first magazine that treated her like a person, instead of a “cum dumpster.” She said, “Glamour has given me a voice.”
It’s a free-style acceptance speech bereft of decorum or political correctness — and it is absolutely refreshing.
Schumer has never pulled punches on women’s magazines and the unattainable beauty standards and relationship expectations they bring. In the first season of Inside Amy Schumer, one sketch parodies the inner workings of Glamo, a fictional magazine, where the staff comes up with the most ridiculous sex tips (resulting in thousands of men later suing the magazine for physical damages.)