Anne Fox

[Food Network @FoodNetwork]

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[Anne Fox @FoxAppeal]

@WalshCBS4 Oh no! Say it isn’t true!!!!

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

Z) But I have one question for my women colleagues: how can we go out there and talk about feminism if we're not standing up for our own sisters in the very business we work in? How can we fight for women's rights overseas if we're not fighting for it on the studio lot?

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[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

Y) Hell, we're tired of being labeled difficult after we just ask not to be abused. And we're tired of normalizing your behavior. I hope I'm not the only woman with a large platform to speak out on this...but if I am, I'm fine taking that position...I'm used to it.

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

X) So for the men who are saying that we need to let Louis CK work again, you're dealing with decades of scar tissue..of abuse we've put up with, stayed quiet about, and laughed off. We're tired of being labeled difficult after we ask for what we deserve.

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

W) All of this stuff gets buried because we just want to keep working. I've been financially fortunate in my life, i've worked hard and saved a lot, but you think an actress or comic who makes $100k a year with two kids is going to start spilling the tea? No way

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

V) I can't tell you how many times I've had women in the business say things like this "(Insert executive/producer/director name here) told me I was too ugly for this part." or stuff like "I was at a dinner party and so and so told me in front of 10 other people that I'm a bitch"

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

U) But seriously it's time to end the culture of silence, all of us women in the business, collectively, are way more powerful than any executive or producer. There are so many fucked up things that have happened to us in this business...

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

T) My agents and publicists (I don't have a publicist right now) get nervous and warn me that I'm burning bridges. I'm labeled as "crazy" by some members of the press. You don't think women in this business look at the reaction I get and say to themselves "Not risking it!"

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

S) Rather than internal material (entertainment business) because they know who butters their bread. As many of you know, I have had no problem focusing on the internal but it has hurt me within the business. Whenever I do a story time or talk about some jerk in the business

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

R) So many women in this business stay quiet out of fear, even when it comes to men who really don't have tons of power, because they fear the label of being difficult or disruptive. Women comics generally have a desire to disrupt but they focus on external material

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

Q) Want to see Louis come back because deep down inside they know they've also done fucked up shit to women (sexual misconduct or misconduct generally) and they want to know that it's not going to hurt them on a permanent basis. Louis is their test case...

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

P) that he's done anything to deal with what he's done to women in the past and you don't have any super successful women in the business talking out? FEAR. These women aren't stupid, they know the boys club closes ranks and protects its own. And many men in the business

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

O) That she shouldn't have said anything...and she's going to be put in a category by men (and some women) that's labeled "watch out for her." Think about it, one of the biggest male comics in the business, in the era of #MeToo, is gliding back in after doing nothing to prove

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

N) For women in this business, success doesn't insulate you the way it does for men. A successful male comic can go spout off about an issue he has and he will not receive any blowback from powerful people in the business. But if a woman does it she is still going to be told

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

M) Did you notice what was missing yesterday after the news about Louis CK was revealed? You didn't see any big women comics speak out about him...I want to be clear, this isn't an attack on these women, many of whom are my friends... the reason they haven't said anything is fear

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

L) Louis CK can go jerk off in front of women w/o their permission & then his management destroys their careers and he just gets to waltz back in without any accounting for his behavior and what he's done to fix it? Hell, he hasn't even done a sit-down interview with a reporter.

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

K) You know how many women I know who have had their careers effectively ended because they asked for the same amount of money as a man or who dared to make script suggestions on a show they were working on? How quickly they were labeled as "difficult" and thus un-hirable?

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

J) But i stayed in it and continue to stay in it because I can't imagine doing anything else. This thread came about because of that text message I got from that female comic but there's no doubt that the situation with Louis CK has me and other women in this business thinking

[Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin]

I) Most of us aren't in this business for money...I know that sounds ridiculous as I type this out from my big fancy house, but I basically worked for free in this business until my mid-thirties. From 18 to age 35 I wasn't making more than a few thousand a year TOTAL.