RACHEL DRATCH: Moving on, BUST says they haven’t interviewed you since you had your son, Archie, last year. So what are your favorite and least favorite things about being a mom?
AMY POEHLER: My favorite thing is my kid. It’s cliche, but it’s true. A little person exists in this little body, and he’s growing, and getting to meet that person is the coolest part. And then — BUST will enjoy this rant and so will you, Dratch. This is a rant I would say to you even if I wasn’t being interviewed. My least favorite part is when women ask me how I do it. There’s been a little lady-on-lady crime in my life recently, where a person was asking me about my schedule and, like working mothers everywhere, I have to work and I have help. I’m lucky to have help with my kid, and then you’ve just got to make it work. In my case, I’m a lot luckier than some people who have to work two jobs and, you know, I sometimes get to bring my kid to work and all that stuff. But this woman was like, “Oh, my God, your hours! You just work so hard! How do you do it?” And I realized that, “How do you do it?” really means “How could you do it?”
RACHEL DRATCH: Ooh!
AMY POEHLER: Isn’t that interesting? I was like, “I want to punch you fucking right in the mouth.” [both laugh]
RACHEL DRATCH: Even when you were pregnant, you said you’d get a lot of unwanted advice. And now people are still butting their noses in.
AMY POEHLER: Yeah, there’s an unwritten rule that women who stay at home are supposed to pretend it’s boring, and women who work are supposed to pretend they feel guilty, and that’s how it works.
RACHEL DRATCH: That’s a good observation.
AMY POEHLER: Women fuckin’ torture each other. It’s just constant. That’s the weird part of all of this; the drive-bys, the comments that, like, weirdly stick in your head that are just projected shit that women tell each other. It’s such a drag!
RACHEL DRATCH: I like how you call it “lady-on-lady crime,” because nobody would ask a dude questions like, “How do you do it?”
AMY POEHLER: My cousin Lynn, who’s a working mother, she would be in meetings and guys would be like, “I gotta leave early you guys. My kid has a baseball game.” And people would be like, “Oh, my God, that’s so cute! He’s leaving early for the baseball game!” But then when a mother says, “I have to leave early ‘cause there’s a baseball game,” everyone’s like “We really need you here.” (x)
I want to marry this whole interview.
(Source: rufustfirefly)
