Amy Schumer Explains Why 'Being a Woman Sucks': 'We're Sexualized All the Time'

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Amy Schumer is getting candid about the difficulties women face in society.

TheI Feel Prettyactress, 37, spoke with Dax Shepard for hisArmchair Expertpodcast this weekwhere she talked about her own self-esteem and how women face harassment in their everyday lives.

“Being a woman sucks. It’s very difficult… We’re sexualized all the time, even when it seems crazy,” Schumer said. “I feel really bad for these girls who are so hot because guys can’t handle it. You can’t have a conversation, everything skews sexual and you’re gonna be treated differently.”

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Schumer said she now calls men out on their bad behavior, even though it makes her uncomfortable, because it could possibly help the next woman along.

In the end, Schumer reiterated that women are “mostly scared of violence.”

“1 in 6 women reports being sexually assaulted, but really it’s 1 in 3 women. So we’re not even like, is this gonna happen? We’re like, when?,” she said. “Like if I’m in New York and I take the subway — women, we run home at night. We’re afraid. We put the key between our two fingers, like we’re gonna be able to do something with that.”

She continued, “We live in constant fear of violence. Just the feeling that we have all day, walking past a guy sitting alone on a bench. We just brace ourselves. And I think that’s something men don’t really understand.”

source: people.com