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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Sexual Harassment in Writers Rooms: When Spitballing Ideas Goes Wrong
Variety: Television writers rooms are not like most workplaces. They’re creative spaces where people — many of whom gravitated toward the field because they blanched at thoughts of working straight jobs — spitball freely and rely on the group to police bad ideas. Intimate personal stories are often shared. Behavior that would not be tolerated elsewhere is given a pass, to the purported benefit of the final product.
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