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pick a fight with every journalist.
I think anyone who has ever heard
me speak knows how I’d rather
spend my leisure time.
I’m speaking up with the awareness that some will roll their eyes
or dismiss my point. Yet it would
be a disservice to all of the hard
working women in entertainment,
including Joan Rivers, who was
the first woman to have her own
late-night show. Not to mention
how this minimizes the efforts of
the 100+ staff members who work
hard on my show every day.
And just as I don’t want to be
inconsequential in any late-night
discourse, I also don’t want to be
singled-out and lauded merely
because I am successful “for a
woman.” I only want to be acknowledged for having worked
hard to build an equally significant audience and fan base to
those of my peers. I believe the
success of any woman should
never be qualified by her gender.
This isn’t about Bill Carter.
This is about being noted as a parenthetical, reaffirming what I feel
has been an underlying, yet consistent in