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I do not know why everyone thinks a male friend must become an assistant husband. Are we saying there are no genuine male friends anymore?

I’d like to write a simple open response from a unique perspective, as I am highly effected by this strike, and it is difficult to put emotions to the side.

I am in the group of nearly 250,000 non-WGA members that will be hurt financially and career-wise by this strike. I am an aspiring director/writer who works on a network television show doing digital promotions like webisodes. A lot of what I do is at the core of issues of the strike.

I see a divide between the youth, like myself, who come from an open source world. We embrace technology, creativity, the internet, and any tool we can afford to get our hands on to let our images be seen and heard.

We are the dreamers, the seekers, the ever-believers that truly fight to express ourselves. We make very little, if no money, from what we do - but we do it because we love it, and now we are crushed. We are the Romantics crushed by petty Realism.

And now, everything I have done is going to come to a crashing halt. Everything I have achieved in my young career is stalled. My new manager, excited by my digital work, can’t take my TV pitch out, my potential agent wont answer his phone. I’m toasted.

Here in the offices I see sad faces. People afraid of how they are going to pay their mortgages. People looking for retail jobs. People hoping that when this is over, they will be re-hired.

The ego, greed, selfishness, and penis-lengths of the few, on both sides, is driving the deprivation of the many. It’s not high school 12,000 members of the WGA, its real life for the 250,000 losing their jobs. And for the so many more who are trying to be creative.

You’re arguing for what? The difference between 4 cents on a DVD sale? For what, the 200 or so writers, like yourself that actually have high profile enough projects to sell enough DVDs to make it matter?

Cesar Chavez fought for freedom in the fields, for people being beaten making 4 cents a day - not 4 cents a DVD.

I’ve read the issues, I know the details, and it’s easy to get into semantics and argue specifics, but on a whole, NOTHING in these arguments warrants the historical weapon of a strike. A strike, a tool that is supposed to speak for inhumanities against the masses, not an elite few.

I’m not on the producers platform. They are greedy, money-grubbing, all the same. Of course they are. But nothing, NOTHING in this situation couldn’t be accomplished with professionalism and diplomacy.

So thank you, WGA members, for your selfishness. Thank you for making me aware that there is a monopoly on writing in this industry.

I hope, with all my heart, that the dreamers out there, the talented youth, will use now as a sign embrace the internet and all other mediums they can use to entertain, educate, and open imaginations world wide. And hopefully educate WGA members on the fact that there are a lot more people out there with hearts and souls and skills, who simply want to work.

Again, this is simply my opinion. Take it or leave it. I’m glad you can pursue all your fun projects while I go work at Starbucks.

i dnt know about all these but i will repeat something every born again christian know: never criticise a man of God.

Anyway, try to read Goodmorning Holy spirit and welcome Holy spirit by Benny Hinn.

any man or woman who cheats on their partners should not be allowed to run for public office full stop,