Maria Semple
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And in my case, one of them made me kind of quit my job, and the other one got me fired from my job.
And I didn't tell anybody about it.
I didn't tell friends.
It was just too shameful, you know?
I kind of, like, fully shut it out.
I just thought...
And you keep going and that's what it was.
And then when Me Too happened, it just really blew everything open because suddenly there's words for it.
That's right.
And there's a whole different framework to look at it.
That's right.
And to me, what I went through at the time was that I felt really kind of guilty for being part of the system, which was just to kind of be on these shows.
And I feel like comedy at the time, really, there was so much misogyny in it.
And I didn't...
I can't say that it made me feel really bad about myself and I thought there was anything wrong with it.
Like I thought that was comedy.
I thought that's what you had to do to be a comedy writer.
I was often the only woman on the writing staff or one of two.