Shonda Rhimes Opens Up About NYT "Angry Black Woman" Article

Shonda Rhimes covers the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter, and they are dubbing her as "TV's Savior."

The 44-year-old screenwriter and producer who is responsible for hits like, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Way With Murder sits down with the magazine to chat about racial bias, odd misogyny and her cast of Scandal.

Referring to the cast of Scandal and comparing it to her Grey's Anatomy cast she states, "There are no Katherine Heigls in this situation. I don't put up with bullsh*t or nasty people. I don't have time for it."

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With her "no time" for shenanigans on set, she's the same way in real life. Recently New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley hinted to Rhimes as being an "angry black woman"

Rhimes responded to the Hollywood Reporter by stating, "I find race and gender to be terribly important; they are terribly important to who I am. But there's something about the need for everybody else to spend time talking about it ... that pisses me off."

She openly talks about the article stating that, 'It's a very good reminder to see the casual racial bias and odd misogyny from a woman written in a paper that we all think of as being so liberal."

Stanley later released a statement stating, "There are some big questions here – about diversity, about editing procedures and about how The Times deals with stories about women and race."

But, Rhimes explained her side eloquently and with not an inch of judgment, however uses a realistic take on the subject matter. "As a woman of color, you've heard every label by the time you get out of the womb," she continued, before acknowledging, "Some really amazing articles were written that had the conversation that I've been trying to have for a very long time, which, coming from me, makes me sound like I'm just, 'Rrrraw!'"