Tracee Ellis Ross is determined to change the perception on TV that only women do chores around the house.The star, who appears as Rainbow Johnson in hit ABC show Black-ish, which tackles issues affecting the Black community, told the Los Angeles Times’ Can’t Stop Watching podcast viewers won’t see her character doing “lady chores” all the time.“What I did speak up about from the beginning was, ‘Why am I carrying laundry?’ ‘Why am I the person in the kitchen cooking right now, when this has nothing to do with the scene?’” the 47-year-old shared.“Even sometimes when it does have something to do with the scene.
I started coining them as ‘lady chores.’ ‘Why am I doing the lady chores?’ ‘Can’t Anthony (Anderson) do the lady chore?’”Explaining.
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