The Sneaky Power of Amy Schumer, in ‘Trainwreck’ and Elsewhere

Among Ms. Schumer’s most challenging scripts this season was the episode-long parody of the courtroom drama “12 Angry Men.” In this version, the all-male jurors debate, in lacerating terms, whether she is hot enough to have a TV show.

.. Bonnie Dow, the chair of communication studies at Vanderbilt University, noted that Ms. Schumer doesn’t practice “empowerment feminism,” serving up only positive role models on the theory that they will change stereotypes: “The direction she goes is taking aim at sexist norms and sexist stereotypes by laying them out in all their ridiculousness.”