They are just afraid to stop Kennedy. She has so much power she can't be removed so they have to allow her to publicly fail because otherwise she'll cry "sexism" if they fire or demote her.
Didn't stop the Mouse from axing Victoria Alonso from Marvel, even though she (being a Latinx lesbian) enjoys even more diversity points than Kennedy. Tbh, at this point I'm leaning toward the idea that KK was a fantastic fuck in her prime and built up a big enough dossier of blackmail on every important person at Disney/Lucasfilm that she's ever gone to bed with, possibly up to and including Lucas and/or Spielberg themselves, to fill Little St. James twice over to make sure she's impossible to fire.
Even if Disney wants to destroy Star Wars & Indy for the sake of The Message™, you'd think they'd want someone who could do so on a slower and more profitable timetable. They're bleeding money bad enough to lay off thousands (no doubt including numerous other, probably more diverse hires than Kennedy herself, because that's the kind of people Iger's been filling the company with for ~18 years and who Chapek bowed to) recently and yet they won't touch the one person who pretty much everyone hates & has identified as the root cause of so many problems, to the point where she can't get applause at Disney events? It can't be a (literally) skin-deep-issue.
They are just afraid to stop Kennedy. She has so much power she can't be removed so they have to allow her to publicly fail because otherwise she'll cry "sexism" if they fire or demote her.
Didn't stop the Mouse from axing Victoria Alonso from Marvel, even though she (being a Latinx lesbian) enjoys even more diversity points than Kennedy. Tbh, at this point I'm leaning toward the idea that KK was a fantastic fuck in her prime and built up a big enough dossier of blackmail on every important person at Disney/Lucasfilm that she's ever gone to bed with, possibly up to and including Lucas and/or Spielberg themselves, to fill Little St. James twice over to make sure she's impossible to fire.
Even if Disney wants to destroy Star Wars & Indy for the sake of The Message™, you'd think they'd want someone who could do so on a slower and more profitable timetable. They're bleeding money bad enough to lay off thousands (no doubt including numerous other, probably more diverse hires than Kennedy herself, because that's the kind of people Iger's been filling the company with for ~18 years and who Chapek bowed to) recently and yet they won't touch the one person who pretty much everyone hates & has identified as the root cause of so many problems, to the point where she can't get applause at Disney events? It can't be a (literally) skin-deep-issue.
It is worse than "bleeding money", they are down to a cash reserve of 10.2 Billion. That is enough to run Disney for a little over a month.
If there was a problem with their banking loans (injunction etc) then Disney would be literally bankrupt next month.
LOL. She's far too old for him.