Beneath the comic the creator of the comic explains a bit. I hadn't heard about Shonda Rhimes before today, is there anything I need to know about her?
There's almost nothing I can say that won't come back to bite me. Suffice it to say I know Disney and a friend has been credited on a Shonda Rhimes show. Look. Hollywood is Jewish as fuck. Shonda Rhimes went to USC - got an MFA there. If you did that today you'd be looking at $300k in diplomas alone. I personally think she's a talentless hack - which used to be the majority opinion - but that didn't stop her from getting Jada Pinkett and Omar Epps to star in her debut short film in nineteen fucking ninety eight. Sure, work hard. But being a deeply privileged minority woman at a company known for its culture of misogynistic racism is a little more complex than "work hard." Hollywood is full of talentless hacks. If you know someone, you fail upward. If you don't, you wash out. Shonda Rhimes has been a much better person to know than, say, Tyler Perry for a long damn time. Talent or no, that's a complex issue.