Originally posted by Northbank
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IDK, it's a pretty shitty system. If you're a co-writer you should be paid equally. In any other writer "partnership" the writers split the fee. And after writing on CRA she wasn't inexperienced any longer. They both worked on the CRA, right?
It's bad enough that in many industries, including film, women and people of color have to work twice as hard as white men do and we still aren't paid the same. We have fought this our entire lives.
And, sure, TV is different than features, but the point is she had already proved herself on CRA. She should have been elevated immediately on the success of that film alone. I mean, how can anyone be so tone deaf as to what's going on in the country about disparity that they didn't see this as an issue? Some executive wasn't doing their job well.
Kudos to her for standing up for herself and refusing to be reduced to a "soy sauce," writer. That was the reference in the article. She just made a stand for every other woman, and all women and men of color.
Now we just need a studio to stand up and do what's right.
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