Subject: Re: Elliot Page Wanted His 'Umbrella Academy' Character To Come Out As Trans. The Showrunner's Response? "Oh My F***ing God. Kill Me Now."
Newsgroups: alt.showbiz.gossip,alt.transgendered,can.politics,sac.politics,talk.politics.guns
From: Dutch <no@email.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:34:04 +0200
On 28 Jul 2025, Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> posted
some news:MPG.42f19473fd322409989772@news.eternal-september.org:
> Verily, in article <6f808205e3ec71a6f2c58e2ef281a4c5@dizum.com>, did
> transheuser-busch@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:
>>
>> The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman responded to a damning
>> report from Rolling Stone that details complaints from 12 former
>> writers and support staffers who claim Blackman fostered a hostile
>> work environment behind the scenes.
>
> None of this sounded damning to me.
>
>> In one instance, a female writing duo was let go after one of the
>> writers gave birth and took maternity leave about a month in.
>
> This is unprofessional. If you're only one month away from giving
> birth, you don't return to working until after that's done.
You can't fire someone because they took maternity leave. If they did
that's totally wrong and illegal.
>> In another instance, the complaint revealed that two members of the
>> writing team and an actress on the show had a private conversation in
>> which they all expressed their frustrations with Blackman regarding
>> her storyline. When Blackman later caught wind of the conversation,
>> he allegedly demanded to know the details of their conversation,
>> though one of them refused to share that information.
>
> He wanted to know their concerns and she wouldn't tell him? That's not
> a good way to get concerns addressed. The correct approach is to relay
> the concerns without saying who said which thing.
>
> As for Ellen/Elliot Page, that individual's obvious misery isn't going
> to be fixed by compelling the show to depict a happy version.
Not a good time for gender changes in shows. The social and financial
trend is going the other direction. People are starved for entertainment
and they are willing to pay for it. Look at some of the shows at the box
office lately, some surprises there.