All these reports are just one major reason I didn't get involved with script writing or journalism. Interest in those writing outlets was one thing. The other issue was not only being a woman in a creative field, but being a disabled woman. Basically, people think of the disabled community and women alike are easy targets. Guess what? We're not. I'll go back to writing about badass female superheroes which are disabled and POC while I wait for AK and MG to get fired.
I hear ya, @dmichellewrites. Script writing has always been an interest of mine and I’ve dithered and dallied about whether I want to get involved in those industries for precisely these reasons. As @eilowyn1 put it in another post, in my mind I’ve always envisaged these places to be rosier than the reality appears to be, and the more I read about the insidious darkness within them, the more I realise how naive I was to think that the world was a better place than it is.
I have hope though. There are some amazing shows at the moment filled with progressive, inclusive, diverse writers’ rooms, and I have to believe that the tide is changing. Women and minorities and people of the disabled community deserve a stronger voice, and it seems we’re all going to have to shout that little bit louder to be heard. Who knows, maybe years from now we’ll look at 2017 as the seminal moment before change finally occurred. In the meantime, yeah, keep on keeping on, write your stories, feed your creativity, build your portfolio. Houses of cards come tumbling down eventually.