Posted on 03/27/2017 9:59:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Aaron Sorkin Reportedly Surprised to Learn That Women and Minorities Have ‘More Difficult Time Getting Their Stuff Read’ in Hollywood
It’s going to take a lot of walking and talking to wrap Aaron Sorkin’s head around this one. The writer participated in a discussion at the Writers Guild Festival this weekend, where he was confronted with questions about Hollywood’s diversity problem. Apparently, however, the topic stumped Sorkin, as its very existence left him “in disbelief,” according to Variety’s report of the event. The slow stripping of ignorance started when Sorkin’s description of Hollywood as a true meritocracy was met with immediate resistance, leading him to wonder, “Are you saying that women and minorities have a more difficult time getting their stuff read than white men and you’re also saying that [white men] get to make mediocre movies and can continue on?”
Sorkin reportedly stuck to the issue even after conversation moved elsewhere, later asking, “You’re saying that if you are a woman or a person of color, you have to hit it out of the park in order to get another chance?” Variety describes Sorkin as “genuinely troubled by his lack of awareness,” ultimately questioning what assistance he could offer. “What can I do [to help]? … I do want to understand what someone like me can do … but my thing has always been: ‘If you write it, they will come,’” he said. We’d love to help Sorkin out, but at the moment we’re kind of busy being speechless.
Aaron’s cocaine abuse has permanently clouded his mind.
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The “Harry Potter” books were written by “J.K. Rowling” because the Liberal woman who wrote them knew that putting a woman’s name as the author was likely to get her submissions tossed aside. She chosen a gender-neutral approach and is now worth a billion dollars.
Don’t forget the mushrooms.
Pride keeps people from acknowledging their advantages.
White males are denied jobs so often that the stats indicate that many have just quit looking for work.(My son has a PhD in physics and the next three positions up where he works are occupied by females, two of them Black and all are less educated)
Many young White males have begun to go the way of Black males...just hanging out.
Merit no longer matters.
But Beatrix Potter and Jacqueline Susann somehow made it.
I’d hope they’d be a little more resourceful than that. For example, immigrants from Italy and Ireland had trouble finding employment at one time, but they persevered...
Hollywood? As in 90+% liberal white males in charge?
“Wow, this is shocking! Me and my other snobby Jewish writer-producer friends will meet at a deli in Sherman oaks today and discuss this.”
“but but but... we are the Good People, and thus above reproach and criticism! Only the Bad People (being those who disagree with us) can be called racists, misogynists, homophobes, etc. I’m so confused!”
~Aaron Sorkin.
Reminds me of a comment I heard a few days ago (maybe here on FR) from a black actor or writer. “Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you go, the whiter it gets.”
(approximate quote but you get the idea)
As opposed to the short story/novella magazine publisher world, where they have come out and stated that preference is given to young female or gay ethnic writers with experience living in cultures other than America, Australia and Europe. A glance at the covers will confirm.
This is entry level, especially in science fiction and it is closed to white Anglophones who lack mentors.
Women and Minorities Have ‘More Difficult Time Getting Their Stuff Read’ in Hollywood.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
I just clicked to see what they weren’t getting because of Trump.
Global Warming will fix both problems.
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