- “Grey’s Anatomy”Shonda Rhimes, the creator, said she was “not fully present at work.”
- She called the “girl boss”Brand of Feminism “bullshit that men have created.”
- “I don’t want to sound sexist, but I never tried to lead like a man,”She said.
“Grey’s Anatomy”Shonda Rhimes is slowly creating her own work culture within TV while viewers have been riveted to small screens, watching shows she has written or produced. She’s not afraid of letting people know that she was human during this revolution.
“I’m not fully present at work,”She Recently, Time.“I don’t think anybody who has kids is fully present at work.”
Rhimes is the mother of Harper (18), Emerson (8), and Beckett (7), whom she adopted.
She acknowledged that her work success makes it less important to her personal life and vice versa.
“The idea of pretending that we have no other life is some sort of fantasy out of the 1950s, where the little lady stayed at home,”She said. “I don’t have a little lady at home. So if I am excelling at one thing, something else is falling off. And that is completely OK.”
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Rhimes is well-aware that she created a character type for her TV shows, especially for ABC. “There was a brand that I specifically created for ABC. It has some hallmarks, and one of them is fierce, incredibly successful career women,”She said.
Rhimes, however, refused to identify her characters as part the story. “girl boss”The 2010s saw a wave of feminism come under fire. “I think the girl boss archetype is bullshit that men have created to find another way to make women sound bad,”She spoke to Time.
Her writing style and her leadership are examples of how she creates characters. Shondaland was founded by the founderShe stated that she was able to provide some of her identities so they were informed.
“I don’t want to sound sexist, but I never tried to lead like a man. I was a single mom with kids. The idea that I would lead any differently than my needs required never occurred to me,” Rhimes explained.