Saturday, June 13, 2020

What Didn't She Know?



June 13, 2020

I don’t know if you ever watched the show “Friends”, but it was about a bunch of twenty-somethings living in New York and dealing with romance, careers, etc. Apparently it was criticized at the time for its lack of diversity, as all the characters were white.

According to an article I read this week, one of the co-creators got emotional when asked what she wishes she had known at the start of her career. “Sorry, I just wish I knew then what I know now,” she said tearfully. “I would’ve made very different decisions.”

I was trying to figure out what she didn’t know: That non-white people live in New York, or that she’d be criticized later in her career for ignoring that.


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