Shonda Rhimes Speaks Up For Feminism at Global Womenâs Rights Awards
âShe told a story about her assistant who expressed wanting to be a man for a day to know how it feels âto have all of that.â Rhimes repeated the refrain, meditating on the complexity of the suggestion.
âMy assistant wants to walk through the world just for a day without some guy hitting on her when she runs to Starbucks to get me coffee,â Rhimes said before tumbling deeper into her assistantâs mind. âShe wants to not be called âcuteâ by the security guard. She wants to not be told that she should be a model. She wants to not see the look of surprise on someoneâs face when she tells them where she went to college. She wants her boobs to no longer be a topic of conversation. She wants to no longer make 70 cents on the dollar. She wants to not have old men legislate her vaginaâs rights. She wants to not know that a glass ceiling ever existed. She wants to not believe that having a baby would end her career. She wants everything in the world to be made for her, be about her and speak mostly to her. Because thatâs how it is for men.â
Rhimes said that, in the moment, she rejected her assistantâs idea because it raised a terrifying truth, and âwe donât have time to be terrified.â She closed by clarifying her platform. âI donât even want men wishing they could be women,â she said. âI just want those words âall of that,â to apply to all of us.â
Photo courtesy Disney | ABC Television Group
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