Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, and Why the 2000s Sucked for Women

I've always been intrigued about how we weaponize the word "difficult," especially in Hollywood. The adage is well known: a difficult woman is a bitch or a pariah while a difficult man is a boss or a genius. In 2018, in the wake of several women coming forward to talk about how their careers had been altered by a Hollywood smear campaign (much of it fueled by disgraced Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein), I wrote a piece for Roger Ebert about this topic.