“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are…

Its the kneejerk assumption of prejudice by people who haven't been within 500 miles of a Hollywood negotiation that always bugs. Personally I'm usually a bit more comfortable making serious charges like this when I have some idea what I'm talking about.

Jesus.

*backs away slowly*

Yeah, pretty simple fact. Its just silly how you types have to deny the most obvious elements of reality to justify your crusade.

It might reflect sexism. It probably has a more reasonable answer, as men are just much much more ambitious about careers than women in general, but I can't say you're wrong.
But I am guessing sexism is pretty high on your list for loads and loads of problems.

OK.

There you go. Give yourself a pat on the back, though I'm sure you took care of that already.

And I have a hard time thinking there are executives just trying to screw women….hold on, rephrase that. Executives out to give women the short end of the stick…..wait. There's gotta be a better way to phrase this. Men trying to be mean.

I'd imagine some connection to the idea of supply and demand, and the expected financial impact of the various performers.
That, or industry-wide misogyny. Not sure.

Does she not have an agent? Sounds like her beef should be with whoever represents her and negotiated her deal.

Totally man. I watched the show to catalog my outrage and tallied 22 instances of sexism, 14 confirmed instances of racism, 2 jokes about the disabled,16 swear words, 8 blasphemous or otherwise anti-religious comments, 5 implications of animal cruelty, and 31 other assorted vicious attacks.

Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do "Big Me" tomorrow?

"Though no direct studies on the prevalence of GID have been done, a variety of clinical papers published in the past 20 years provide estimates ranging from 1:7,400 to 1:42,000 in assigned males and 1:30,040 to 1:104,000 in assigned females.[42]"\

Amazingly ironic post given the topic of this story.

Why is that?

Transgender awareness is probably the most overplayed issue in America. No issue which affects so few people gets so much coverage, and I doubt its even close.

Bullseye

Its especially dangerous when someone is just telling their audience what they want to hear, regardless of accuracy or other perspectives.

Its mostly about people parading around saying "look how tolerant I am!". Its pure self-interest and strutting.