I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I think in a lot of network television, everyone’s vaguely Protestant and doesn’t really go to church so they can be ‘relatable.’ Rachel Bloom Read Quote
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it’s specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It’s just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We’ve seen that. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won’t get heard. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
It’s understandable why TV hasn’t been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren’t going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They’re not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family. Rachel Bloom Read Quote