Behind-The-Scenes Discrimination In The Entertainment World

It’s not just the characters and situations that are problematic. It’s the garbage behind the scenes.
Behind-The-Scenes Discrimination In The Entertainment World
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We're getting better about being more inclusive and diverse, but we're not there yet. You don't need to look any farther than entertainment, to find proof. Even in this day and age, there's a baffling amount of sexism and racism behind the scenes of our most ubiquitous pop culture.

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Behind-The-Scenes Discrimination In The Entertainment World
Two thirds (65.4%) of TV shows have zero Black writers. CRACKED.COM An additional 17.39 of writers' roors have just one Black writer.
Hollywood has an Asian problem. Though beautiful and talented, no casting calls came for CHLOE WANG. But one name change later and everyone knows Chloe Bennet as Quake. AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Says Chloe, Oh, the first audition I went on after I changed my name, I got booked.
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Book Publishing

Book publishing is overwhelmingly white. LAhla MO TITLES SUGR on Just under 80% of publishing employees in the U.S. are white, and this is reflected in their output. For example, a major research library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that, of 3,400 books published in 2016, only 94 (about

Female Characters in Video Games

Behind-The-Scenes Discrimination In The Entertainment World
If you're older, don't expect to be treated fairly by the games industry. LRELO 1171 Ageism is the industry's most common form of discrimination after sexism, according to a 2014 survey by the industry association IGDA. People over 50 make up almost a quarter of gamers in the U.S., but
Behind-The-Scenes Discrimination In The Entertainment World
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Gaming

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Hollywood has a tolerant and progressive working environment, right? Not so much. For example, in a study of 5,700 movie actors by UCLA'S Williams Institute, 58% of gay and lesbian actors said they heard anti-gay slurs from directors and producers. 43% of them said they've seen gay and lesbian actors
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The Butler

LEE DANIELS' CRACKEDCON THE BUILER the of an African-American who served the White House for over three decades, needed 41 producers. Independent financiers were approached because, according to producer and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, In Hollywood, no one wants to step up to the to support African-American films.
Most Grammy awards go to men. Inthe past SEX years, 899 people have been nominated for Grammys. CRACKED.COM Only 9.3%o of the nominees were women. 90.7% were men.
In the 2017-2018 TV season, only about 1.8% of series regulars were people with disabilities. Even though about 12.8% E of people in the U.S. live with disabilities. OH, IT GETS WORSE! Only about 5% of those characters played by are actual disabled people. CRACKEDCON
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL rejected was once for being too old to play a 55-year-old man's lover. She was 37.

Grey's Anatomy

Ellen Pompeo didn't earn as much as Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy. At one point, I asked for $5, .000 more than him just on principle, because the show is Grey's Anatomy and I'm Meredith Grey. They wouldn't give it to me.

Latinos

YOU'RE NOT ENOUGH LATINO is something Latino actors have to hear all the time. Eva Longoria, America Ferrera and Jimmy Smits all say that at some point in their careers they've been told to be more Latino by a white casting director.

Latinos don't have a particular “look.” The movie Encanto nailed it best; that family was all over the place visually, just like Latin Americans in real life!

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