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[–]mangosplums 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I'm glad that companies who treat their employees like shit get taken to task, but I'm a little annoyed that people seem to be taking this as confirmation that Ellen is an asshole who berates people. According to the sources, that claim is untrue and it's the producers who are the problem. That doesn't mean that she doesn't hold responsibility for her producer's behavior though.

“People focus on rumors about how Ellen is mean and everything like that, but that's not the problem. The issue is these three executive producers running the show who are in charge of all these people [and] who make the culture and are putting out this feeling of bullying and being mean,” another former employee claimed. “They feel that everybody who works at The Ellen Show is lucky to work there — ‘So if you have a problem, you should leave because we’ll hire someone else because everybody wants to work here.’”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ellen-employees-allege-toxic-workplace-culture

[–]yayblueberries 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm annoyed that if a lesbian woman gets taken to task for possibly being an asshole, somehow it's "the revolution consuming its children." There ain't no revolution, I'm tired of being expected to accept being lumped into groups, I'm tired of being expected to like all other lesbians just because I'm a lesbian. Even if Ellen wasn't an asshole to her coworkers, I still thought she was an asshole myself and hated her show. Fuck her, she doesn't stand in as a rep for all lesbians.

[–]mangosplums 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure if this comment is directed to me, because you replied to me, but that's not what I said. I was just clarifying something from the actual article itself on what the problem is.