Is television ready for angry women?
That’s the title of this Atlantic article that caught my eye.
Actually, it caught Pocket’s eye, which decided to recommend it to me on the basis of some algorithm or other.
My immediate reaction was a stomach-churning “No!!” Hasn’t TV and just about every other form of media been full, been positively loaded, been inundated, with angry women telling us all the things they’re angry about?
The very thought makes me—angry.
I actually clicked on the article and started to read it, but it was so profoundly boring that I exited pretty quickly. One thing I took away from it is the idea that a lot of women are angry about the way the laws of sexual attraction work. Good luck with fighting that particular set of circumstances.
I tried reading a few paragraphs.
“Blah blah pink blah blah Buffy blah blah co-producer blah blah addiction blah blah found voice blah blah blahhhhhhhhhhhhh ”
I give up.
Ready for angry women? Ready? Check out the various reality shows about African-American women. They’ve been nothing but angry for decades now.
When The Atlantic stopped accepting comments, I stopped reading.
Never started reading A. Not gonna start now.
I wish we had fewer angry men on TV, not more angry women.
I have never watched any of Noxon’s shows, and don’t intend to start.
“Late in 2017, a former writer on Mad Men, Kater Gordon, accused Weiner of sexual harassment, claiming that Weiner, her boss, had told her she owed it to him to let him see her naked. In a series of tweets, Noxon affirmed Gordon’s account, saying she remembered how “shaken and subdued” Gordon had been the following day, and from then on. Weiner, she wrote, was many things, “devilishly clever and witty, but he is also, in the words of one of his colleagues, an ‘emotional terrorist’ who will badger, seduce and even tantrum in an attempt to get his needs met.” (Weiner has denied Gordon’s allegations.)
Noxon says she debated whether or not to speak out. “I knew stuff,” she says, “and I knew it might have a cost to me personally” to come forward. Like everyone in Hollywood, she’s heard stories that haven’t been told yet about other people in the industry, because the fear of offending them is too powerful. But she didn’t want to be one among the sizable group looking the other way to protect their own career.”
How long ago did that happen?
Did either of them say anything at the time?
Well — turns out the answers are: ten years, and no.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mad-men-matthew-weiner-kater-gordon-1202611447/
“Former “Mad Men” writer Kater Gordon has accused series creator Matthew Weiner of making a sexually charged remark to her while she worked on the series.
According to a report published Thursday by the Information, Gordon alleges while working together late one night in 2008, Weiner said she owed it to him to let him see her naked. A PR rep for Weiner reiterated the statement he gave to the Information: “He does not remember saying this comment nor does it reflect a comment he would say to any colleague.”
Gordon won a writing Emmy in 2009 for her work on “Mad Men,” but she has not worked in TV since she was let go from the “Mad Men” staff at the end of the third season. She began her TV career as a personal assistant to Weiner, then advanced to writing assistant to Weiner and ultimately to staff writer.
Of the incident, Gordon said she recalls freezing up and trying to brush off his comment. She didn’t report the remark to anyone at the time out of fear of losing her job. She told the Information she decided to speak out about her experience following the explosive revelations of sexual assault allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein.”
Not impressed by Noxon’s “courage” at joining in after the #MeToo herd has already started running.