Why don’t hollywood dudes just admit they all have the same boring reporter lady kink like at least we can work from there

Truly I do not know what it is with male showrunners/screenwriters/etc. being so mouth-breathingly obsessed with the dramatics of a good journalism story but then somehow they are also simultaneously unable to conceive of a single way for a Female character achieve any modicum of success without involving sex?????? 

It’s like the idea of being a reporter who, I don’t know, just listens? and does her research? and finds secondary sources? while ALSO carrying a uterus around?? is somehow metaphysically impossible to wrap The Creative Male’s mind around, like oh my g.o.d. for an industry of dudes obsessed with avoiding cliche, you guys sure love this specific one. 

Anyway, this is all to say, good on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution demanding that the Warner Bros. film clarify the dramatic license they’re taking on the character of Kathy Scruggs, and bravo on hiring a Hollywood attorney to get it done. 

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