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...and it's because of this woman, Ruth Brooks Flippen, who was the television writer who
did the adaptation for television and frankly I had never heard of her.
There are a lot of female writers in Hollywood that never get exposure and so this shocked
me.
Theses are photographs, more likely I was to find her online with her husband because
he was an actor in the period.
So she is more known as Jay Flippen's wife than she is as an executive producer for television
in her own right and after she got through with Gidget she's going to do a lot of interesting
things.
Along the way we're going to talk about gendered writing and how scripts became different when
a man wrote an episode of Gidget versus when a female did, which I did not think would
happen and yet it is exactly what I discovered along the way.
Sadly, when women write women they give them jobs and make the educated and smart and when
men write woman they often don't give them jobs and they have them shop a lot, which
doesn't seem to suit me as a definition as I really don't like shopping.