5/22/2023 0 Comments The power of yes shonda rhimes![]() Women, people of color, LGBTQ people equal WAY more than 50 percent of the population. I am making TV look like the world looks. “It irritated me to my core,” she writes, “that we live in an era of ignorance great enough that it was still necessary for me to be a role model, but that didn’t change the fact that I was one.” Differents”-the people, like her, who are saddled with the heavy pressures of cultural trailblazing. It’s who someone is.” She mentions the dizzying expectations placed on people who are what she calls F.O.D.s: “First. ![]() And that “I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Stop asking it.”) She also mentions how much she hates being asked how she accomplishes so much as a single mother. Since I’ve never been anything other than a black woman, I can’t tell you how specifically anything feels any more than someone could tell someone how things feel as a white woman. The answer, no matter how you fill in that blank, is always the same: I don’t know. Rhimes mentions how much she hates being asked, usually by reporters, questions that begin, “As an African American woman, how do you feel about _?” (“Here’s a tip. In all that, though, are buried pieces of advice that concern not just Rhimes’s readers, but everyone. ![]()
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