tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post7769814105961133772..comments2024-03-28T09:53:43.900-04:00Comments on The Hurting: Munchausen WeekendTegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-46819908973808427732015-08-13T23:46:02.241-04:002015-08-13T23:46:02.241-04:00"If one accepts that Schumer's comedy is ..."If one accepts that Schumer's comedy is at least putatively feminist in nature..." Putatively, sure, but I thought <i>Trainwreck</i> was impressively regressive. I really wanted to like the movie, but from go we're led to understand that Schumer's sexual appetite is pathological, which is lazily connected to her father's justification of his philandering (Quinn's opening bit was the only real laugh I had during the film). Once she's slept with Hader, it's basically game over, if I remember correctly. It's not as if her character struggles with giving up her freedom. "This isn't working for you anymore," her sister tells her (which is really, I suppose, all dad's death amounts to, judgment passed on a lifestyle, he dies alone trying to kill the pain). Hader calls her out for sleeping with more people than he has. As you note, she hits bottom when they break up and she quasi-accidentally almost gets it on with a sixteen-year-old. Repent, slut. Which she does by literally becoming a cheerleader for her man (on the basketball court and in the pages of <i>Vanity Fair</i>). This is feminism?Nickhttp://nicholasjahr.comnoreply@blogger.com