In yet another astounding example of sexism in the entertainment industry, the creator of GreysAnatomy Shonda Rhimes has revealed that the multi-award-winning show, currently airing its 19th season in the US, almost didn’t make the cut.
has revealed that the multi-award-winning show, currently airing its 19th season in the US, almost didn’t make the cut.podcast that a room full of old male television executives gave her a hard time for starting her show in the way she did. How exactly? Read on and prepare to be surprised.
Because a woman couldn’t possibly enjoy sex and be intelligent, talented and highly employable, right? For context, when this episode first aired, internet dating wasn’t really a thing, Tinder wasn’t even a pipe dream and women didn’t really talk about having casual sex as openly as we might do today.
Rhimes recalls: “They could not get out of that room fast enough. They didn’t know what to do – they were like, ‘These are the kinds of women we don’t like.’”
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