Rachel Confirms s7 Casting Spoilers

[x-forgetromeo.livejournal.com]

 


I'd like to take this opportunity to say that whether or not you loved/hated Ashley Seaver, Rachel Nichols as an actress is a human being who did not deserve to be sidelined liked this. She obviously loved her job and her co-workers, and is justifiably upset about this. 

CBS pulled the same stunt with Rachel that they did with AJ and Paget last year. Please keep that in mind. CBS might have fixed one of the symptoms by bringing AJ and Paget back, but they have in no way solved the problem of treating their actresses as disposable.

If you can, please send Rachel some love on twitter. 

Comments

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

+1

I... don't really understand why people are arguing. Few people seem to be actively denying that networks are motivated by profit and female characters seem to be less popular blah blah. What people seem to be fighting about is the implication that they shouldn't be upset or pissy b/c of it. And while I do think it's rather myopic to place the sole blame on CBS or whoever else is in charge it's equally myopic to be like LULZ WE LIVE IN A SEXIST SOCIETY DEALWITHIT.GIF. The situation goes far deeper than just pointing a finger at one person and calling "sexist!" It's a complex interaction of sexism within the media and within audiences.

This whole musical cast members thing was just fucked-up and required yet another fucked-up move to set things right again. It's like some kind of law of conservation of fuckery or something. Fuckery doesn't cancel out b/c it brought about a desired outcome. You don't have negative fuckery. It's just even more and increasingly complex fuckery.

... I had some kind of point in there somewhere but it got lost in fuckery mathematics

[thecowboycliche.livejournal.com]

This. Honestly at this point it's not the whole "was her firing deserved" that's bothering me, it's the way some people are completely dismissing other people's feelings by saying that ~we should have known this would happen, this is a sexist society, this is TV, get over it~. Knowing all of this to be true doesn't necessarily change people's feelings because you can't quantify feelings with logic. That's not how feelings work.