“[W]riters play a foundational role in the fashioning of the stories a society circulates about itself. But in the Hollywood entertainment industry, unfortunately, there has all too often existed a disconnect between the writers hired to tell our stories and an America that’s becoming increasingly diverse with each passing day,” the report from the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) states.
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Even before I'd read this article, I've had a disconnect with much of what shows on television these days. Maybe it's because most TV shows aren't written for my demographic (because we turn to things like Netflix for movies), but I think it's in part to the large percentage (75%) of television writers that are white males. Granted, I'm not a minority, but even as white woman, it's difficult to relate to shows written purely from a man's perspective. There are just some jokes that I won't ever find funny, and when male writers use them over and over in shows, it just makes them that much less funny for minorities and women. It's no wonder that television viewers are decreasing, the relevancy of most sitcoms and dramas is lost, or at least not effective on the part of the population that isn't white males.
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