“It’s time that we women did what we need to do rather than continuing to organize ourselves into committees or gather information and input. A prime example for me, and someone I look forward to speaking to in person, is Shonda Rhimes. I’ve come to admire her, although she’s in the entertainment business rather than technology. She’s an African-American woman who broke all the rules when she proposed a prime-time show with a woman as the leading actor. Several years later, she brought a second show with another woman lead to television, and last year, she unveiled her third prime-time show with a female lead. Two of the three leading women were African-American.
Now, one creator/producer has changed the game completely by having three very strong women leading network television for three of the top-rated hours on Thursday nights. Every other network has to compete with her.
What’s admirable about Shonda is that she spoke less and did more. I don’t think she’s spent a lot of time talking about what works and doesn’t work. She’s led by example.”
??? what is this. Let’s not engage in tokenism/exceptionalism, please? One of the scariest things about being successful against the stereotypes is that people start building narratives like ‘if only all the other people could work hard like you!’ and then suddenly you are a symbol for how lazy everyone else is.
And of course it is both intimidation and gender discrimination. And if we are going to be upset about intimidation, what about calling out the intimidators to be less shitty instead of calling out the shit-upon to plug our noses?
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