People are truly ignorant https://twitter.com/andressabussm/status/1343219080845787136

Of course there are very few studies on this, which doesn’t help. The only one we hear about is the “CSI effect”, which turned forensic science a women dominated field and made jurors expect a suitcase full of DNA before they believe someone is guilty.

And that’s globally...not just in the US.

There is also this sad fact https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-baywatch-unknowingly-changed-the-world_b_3891368

Do you want to hear about the time someone asked for a meeting with me to discuss a remake of the Baywatch TV show?

Hold on, let me make some...

Okay...so I’m on location shooting something when my agent calls.
“I know you’re in the middle of shooting but I just had to call you about this”
“Okay...?”
“But don’t start yelling...just hear me out...”
Me:

Agent: “so I got a call from ******* asking if you’d be interested meeting on a remake of the Baywatch TV show - at which point I immediately start laughing and told them they must be calling for the wrong person, Lexi is a feminist and Palestinian and an activist-hahahahaha

...”at which point the Executive interrupted me and said -no, we know who she is. That’s why we’re calling her-

Me: Oh?

Agent: Right????

“So apparently they’re considering a remake that was pitched by the original rights holder who never wanted the show to be about shallow pretty people, he always wanted this to be a show about the environment like... a type of eco-thriller”

Me: Really?

“So do you want me to set the meeting?”

“Fuck, yes. Set it for the day after I’m back0

“Okay. They want you to bring some ideas based on this info”

“I got I ideas”

“I know you do”

Me (except not blond or in high heels or wearing a dress):

So I go to this meeting, struggle through the small talk, then someone says: “so you know what we wanted to meet with you about?”

Me: Yes! Environmental feminist Baywatch. I got ideas...

Execs: well we are excited to hear them.

Me: Do you know who Yusra Mardini is?

Silence.

“She’s a Syrian refugee who became an Olympic swimmer and is now a prominent environmental activist. She is one of seven young activists working at the intersection of environmental and...

...racial injustice and they’re badass. If I was to make a socially conscious Baywatch show that advocates for the environment, this would be who my cast would be based on...

That was 2 years ago. I never heard from them again.

And just so you know...I wasn’t a complete moron, of course I included Americans and many white characters. I had found this story about Huntington Beach lifeguards that fit in nicely https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/tn-dpt-et-0305-devyn-bisson-20170303-story.html