Amy Schumer is no stranger to online criticism. Since having her son, Gene, in May, people criticized her for a variety of things, and she always had a funny response ready and waiting.
First, she was criticized for getting back to work too early.
When she shared this shot of her doing a standup set just two weeks after giving birth to her son, a lot of people online told her she should be staying home with her baby.
The following day she shared this all-too-real photo of herself.
Her caption read, “Sending out love to the moms shaming me for doing standup last night! #tinystairs #schumerpumprules” poking fun at all the haters.
She also caught some heat for her caption on these photos.
Hospitals often give new mothers stretchy, absorbent underwear, and Amy’s caption about wearing them everywhere/forever struck some people as inappropriate.
Some people said Amy shouldn’t be posting pictures in her underwear.
Amy responded with this photo and the caption, “I’m really sorry if I offended anyone with my hospital underwear. Except I’m just kidding.”
Now Amy’s facing a very different kind of criticism.
Amy shared a few photographs of her family enjoying a day at the beach, including this shot of her sitting in a beach wheelchair while her husband pushes her. Fans immediately questioned her use of the device.
Fans were accusing her of hogging resources.
Beach wheelchairs to rent are usually in fairly short supply, and some fans pointing out that Amy renting one when she didn’t need one meant there was one less for someone who does.
Some accused her of presenting the device too casually.
Others thought that she was promoting the chair as just something fun or helpful to use at the beach and not a mobility device for people who need it.
Some fans, however, defended her by pointing out her dad is wheelchair bound, and the chair could have been for him.
It’s totally possible Amy’s father needed the chair, but let Amy take a picture in it or ride in it for a bit for fun during their day at the beach.
Others were just living for it.
Someone even called Amy in the beach wheelchair the “ideal summer mood,” which, honestly, I kind of relate to.
Some people saw opportunity.
A lot of people had no idea these kinds of wheelchairs even existed, even people like this commenter who could definitely use one.
Some fans focused on the more important issues.
Where is baby Gene?! In the first photo Amy shared, she and her husband are holding the baby, but in the beach wheelchair shot, he’s nowhere to be seen!
This commenter pointed out an eerie similarity.
They noted that Amy’s husband bore a resemblance to the Adam Sandler character Billy Madison.
And if you take a closer look…
He 100% does. Maybe he’s pushing Amy because she was taking too long to walk
Amy herself doesn’t seem concerned with the backlash.
Amy responded only to a comment complimenting her on her post-baby body, saying in her reply that she’s loving her “warm, soft, post baby body” and that she’s “grateful to be feeling so strong again!”
It looks like Amy won’t be commenting on her use of the beach wheelchair.
What do you think? Should Amy have left the chair for people who needed it, or should the Instagram commenters mind their own business?
