Fuck Yeah, Chad Michael Murray and Ryan Buell

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

Female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called “amplification”: When a woman made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution — and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own.

I am a stubborn girl. I am also a talented and hardworking girl, and the truth is I do play well with others. But in corporate culture, “play well with others” has come to mean absolutely agreeing to everything that gets thrown at you. It is a given: You have to say yes to your boss all the time. And that means all the time, and cheerfully—that, I’m not as good at. And the men who I’ve seen attain success in this world are salesmen, charmers; they know how to manage up. That’s another phrase I learned: manage up. Basically that means making your bosses love you, whether or not you are doing a good job. Here is another phrase that I learned: comfort level. When I was fired from the show I created, my soon-to-be-ex-agent told me that the president of NBC had a “comfort level” issue with me. Comfort level, I came to learn, is Hollywood code for men who don’t want to work with women. So women, who are suspect because there is this comfort level issue have to work extra hard to play well with others and manage up, in addition to sucking everything up and understanding that things are going to be handed to the guys, and then they’re going to tell a lot of sexist jokes and tell you to your face that you’re supposed to be writing the girl scenes because they’re too busy writing about shooting people and blowing things up and other utter bullshit. Ooops, did I say that? This is another thing that “play well with others” means: Keep your mouth shut. In television, we have to be very stubborn girls indeed.