Amy Schumer and Blake Lively Tag Teaming Gender Bias

Amy Schumer put Girls’ Life magazine on notice to quit it with the headlines about being pretty and having nice hair and makeup and breakup tip for girls. Especially in contrast to Boys’ Life which features dream jobs for boys like fireman or fighter pilot or a cleaning a dog’s teeth. They likely ran low on clipart.

Amy Schumer re-Instagrammed the already viral social media juxtaposed photo but added the word, “no”. So powerful in its simplicity. Not long after, Blake Lively re-passed on Schumer’s re-pass on, but with the words, “wow” and “second that emotion”. The all-female staff at HuffPo followed up with an “indeed”. If you want to a cool boy job like detective or race car driver, you’re going to need to upgrade those language arts skills.

Naturally, and conveniently, Blake Lively, and to a lesser extent, Amy Schumer, evolved to their current positions of seven figure salaries by following the sexist advice rife in Girls’ Life. Pretty blond hair, revealing dresses, perfect make up. Gossip Girl wasn’t casting based on your secret ambition to be a genetic scientist. Amy Schumer is mildly amusing on stage, but so is Margaret Cho. Track the career earnings and the pudgy blond showing off the titties earns the greater than sign. 

A mom got involved enough to pen a letter to the editor’s of Girls’ Life, all women, to ask them what in the hell they’re doing reinforcing outdated stereotypes about girls being into dating and looking great and fashion. The Girls’ Life editors have yet to respond, though have already nixed the idea of an honest answer along the lines of, “we’re in the business of selling magazines, this is what sells… bitch”. Run the numbers. Girl Computer Engineering Life isn’t flying off the shelves.

A magazine for girls, produced by women, purchased by moms, and it’s all merely a pawn for the patriarchy standing in the shadows pulling the strings. Demonic. Some day we’ll be grown up enough to admit these stereotypes are driven almost entirely by women themselves and that most men don’t really fear smart, hard working women, they kind of respect them. We’re not there yet. Maybe four more issues.