I wrote this little story a few years ago with the idea that The Bible was written in a writers room, with just one woman and a dozen men. This of course leads to every misogynistic line and thought in The Bible, as the woman thinks of everything important, only to have her ideas stomped on and then stolen by the stupid men.
My apologies for the formatting...
In a nondescript conference room, a group of men sit together- with one woman in a far corner. They are arguing and it is hard to hear what anyone is talking about, but words like “Testament” and “Deuteronomy” are heard through the yelling. One man, sitting at the front of the table holding a script in his hand yells above the rest to get everyone's attention. The room quiets down slightly as he continues
“we’re on a tight deadline people, we need this baby done by Friday, so no more bickering!”
The one woman in the room stands up and addresses the group “guys, we’re never going to get this finished by Friday, its just too much, we need to call the executives and tell them this isn’t going to be ready by sweeps, we don’t even have a title for the first section, why don’t we start doing that now….”
“Shut up cathy, that’s an awful idea” One of the other men in the room quickly retorts, then he continues “now, guys, we’re never going to finish this thing by Friday.”
“But I just said…” Cathy stammered out before being cut off.
"No, Cathy, please be quiet, Bill is right, we need to pick up the pace, I think we should start thinking of a title.” All the men in the room smile and nod in agreement as Cathy looks more frustrated.
“Okay people, lets start pitching ideas for the name” the man at the front of the table tells the group.
Cathy quietly moves to stand from her seat. “what about… Genesis? It’s clever, descriptive, and I think it sounds cool too.”
For a moment all the men in the room are suddenly silent. The silence lasts for a few seconds, until one of the men is suddenly bursts out laughing, followed by all the other men. The men begin making stereotypical "girl" sounds with extra high voices, and moving their hands in a talking motion while mocking the name Cathy pitched. Soon though, the man at the head of the table calms everyone down.
“Okay okay guys, she knows not what she does… hey, that’s a good line, Cathy, write that one down, I think we’ll stick that somewhere near the end.”
Cathy looks down at her notes, more frustrated than ever as the leader continues “okay, people, names!” Immediately everyone begins spitting out name ideas, each one as dumb as the last.
“starter”
“invention”
“Law and order”
“first quarter”
“openings”
“exodus”
The leader looks over at one of the men and addresses him directly “Jerry, was that you who said ‘law and order’?”
Jerry looks nervous as he answers with a quiet “yes…”
“That’s good thinking, Jerry: we’re on the right track people, lets really get those mental juices flowing”
“CSI”
“CSI: Miami”
“geneticist!”
The leader stops the group before anyone can go further “wait a minute, geneticist… that’s it! We’ll call it Genesis! Its perfect!” one by one all the other men agree.
“its clever!”
“and so descriptive!”
“it sounds so cool too!”
“good thinking, boss”
Cathy rolls her eyes for the future generations of women who were sure to be doomed by the moronic plunders these men.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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