I never worked on a TV show where a male writer declared it “rape day” or groped me or watched porn in the writers room, some of the actions attributed to Eric Weinberg. This was, as one female writer was quoted, “The worst of the worst.” This is the big stuff.
But in my nearly 20 years as a sitcom writer, I experienced plenty of medium to small stuff. Everything from a showrunner’s hanging women’s underpants on his lamp, to being told women aren’t funny, to being asked if my contribution to a script was making the coffee, to innumerable jokes about my breasts. Each time I’d laugh and blow it off. Yes, it wore me down. But I wanted to work. And it had happened on every show.
Except one. On that show, nothing like that happened. Ever.
When Michael Elias contacted me recently about the passing of Rich Eustis,...
But in my nearly 20 years as a sitcom writer, I experienced plenty of medium to small stuff. Everything from a showrunner’s hanging women’s underpants on his lamp, to being told women aren’t funny, to being asked if my contribution to a script was making the coffee, to innumerable jokes about my breasts. Each time I’d laugh and blow it off. Yes, it wore me down. But I wanted to work. And it had happened on every show.
Except one. On that show, nothing like that happened. Ever.
When Michael Elias contacted me recently about the passing of Rich Eustis,...
- 12/2/2022
- by Lisa Rosenthal
- The Wrap
New York, Oct 4: People who stick to traditional gender roles are more likely to be self-conscious, less comfortable and less safe in bed, a new study has revealed.
Researchers from Yale University find that for young adults, sticking to traditional gender roles makes them less comfortable and therefore possibly less safe in the bedroom.
Researchers recruited 357 women and 126 men ages 18 to 29, all heterosexual and sexually active.
Study head Lisa Rosenthal and her team had subjects respond to survey questions on their sexual confidence and sexual assertiveness in a private cubicle, where there was a bowl of female condoms with a sign that read: "Protect yourself and your partner. Please take some! Free Female.
Researchers from Yale University find that for young adults, sticking to traditional gender roles makes them less comfortable and therefore possibly less safe in the bedroom.
Researchers recruited 357 women and 126 men ages 18 to 29, all heterosexual and sexually active.
Study head Lisa Rosenthal and her team had subjects respond to survey questions on their sexual confidence and sexual assertiveness in a private cubicle, where there was a bowl of female condoms with a sign that read: "Protect yourself and your partner. Please take some! Free Female.
- 10/4/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
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