Lisa Kudrow Says the ‘Friends’ Writers Were ‘Mostly Men’ Who Stayed ‘Up Late Discussing Their Sexual Fantasies’ About Her Female Co-Stars
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Lisa Kudrow Says the ‘Friends’ Writers Were ‘Mostly Men’ Who Stayed ‘Up Late Discussing Their Sexual Fantasies’ About Her Female Co-Stars
by MoneyLibrarian9032
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Somehow I can‘t think a mostly female writers room would be free of sexual fantasies.
It’s true. There was a whole court case about how sexist that writers’ room was, and it ended up with the California Supreme Court setting a terrible legal precedent by declaring that *not* telling the sole black woman in the room to suck them off would be stifling the creative environment they needed to write jokes for the “adult” TV show with “mature” themes.
Not a shocker when you hear from two women, two women of color in particular, who have been open about their experience on working on *Friends*:
[Amaani Lyle](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/friends-writers-assistant-lawsuit-me-too-era)
[Patty Lin](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-08-24/friends-former-writer-memoir-says-stars-unhappy-tanked-jokes-on-purpose)