Variety: In 1999 Monika Mitchell wrote, produced and directed a short film that she took to festivals. At the time, she recalled Sunday at a Television Critics Assn. press tour panel, when her name came up in the credits there were so few women helming projects that she overheard an executive say, “Monika’s a funny name for a guy.” In the two decades since that experience, she has crossed mediums between film and television, working most recently on Lifetime’s original movie “Jane Green’s To Have and to Hold,” while the industry around her has made slower advances. Currently there are 17% women directors, while only approximately 15 months after the #MeToo movement went viral men such as Louis C.K. and Les Moonves are getting back to work.
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When it comes to Hollywood, I honestly don't see why these people should deserve to work again. The entertainment industry is the most public career a person can have, and honestly represents our country and the way we want to present ourselves. They serve as a time capsule of an age. Do we really want to put anyone who represents the worst part of our culture back to work? Many of the men who fell from power during the Me Too movement were established institutions in the entertainment industry. They've all made millions of dollars, and they frankly don't deserve the chance to return to popularity, and these women should be sticking to their guns. If it were any other industry, where women weren't required to be as vulnerable, or women are more protected by the workplace, then I think it would be less of a conversation, but these men really have absolutely no place representing our society in the entertainment industry, and occupying positions that women and POC could have as comedians, and directors, and performers, and CEOs.
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