Posted on 10/19/2017 12:13:39 PM PDT by drewh
Full closing paragraph:
In response, Bialik tweeted Sunday that “a bunch of people have taken my words out of the context of the Hollywood machine and twisted them to imply that God forbid I would blame a woman for her assault based on her clothing or behavior. Anyone who knows me and my feminism knows that’s absurd and not at all what this piece was about. It’s so sad how vicious people are being when I basically live to make things better for women.”
Bialik wrote specifically about protecting oneself from Hollywood's predatory power structure (not from protecting against harassment in general), but her critics chose to generalize their reactions in their anger at her. Her critics may actually be projecting their own anger at themselves for staying silent while this abuse was going on.
-PJ
I admire her for speaking out. Modesty is a virtue which seems in short supply in Hollywood.
in this case Mayim has made modesty work for her in Hollyweird. down right amazing!
Ya' mean Michael ? Look at the puss on him!. . .
We all know women are always more critical of other women.
Yeah, way more than some academic no doubt. But then again, most people in Hollywood don’t have PhDs in anything but leftist stupidity and gay studies. If you want to act, why put yourself through the hell of a doctorate in a hard science? I guess that’s my real interest.
In her original NYT editorial, she (perhaps jokingly) said she went back to acting for the health care.
After 12 years away from Hollywood, I returned to acting, largely because I had no health insurance and missed performing and making people laugh.
-PJ
She’s got a nose for study.
She’s got a nose for fashion.
She’a got a nose.
She has a PhD in Neuroscience.
I doubt any of her critics can spell “harassment”.
ummm her character on Big Bang is dowdy.... she is not. God Bless her for speaking truth. Maybe she is OK with the inevitable attacks from being courageous enough to discuss modesty in female dress as a moral standard. Maybe she has some moral courage and isn’t afraid of being called names.
Coming from someone who considers herself “a raging, liberal democrat”, she shouldn’t be surprised by all the backlash coming from her own. Feminists fighting feminists.
“She probably gets excluded from certain hollywood associations because she has a Phd and can think for herself...not malleable or able to be easily manipulated.”
She excludes herself because she is Orthodox Jewish.
No time for their pagan garbage lives.
My wife became a lawyer, and a good one. But she hated it. When we married, she quit and became a substitute teacher. She makes virtually nothing but she has the things she wants: flexibility of her time so she can take care of things that matter to her (mostly other people) and when she does work it's with kids. Her happiness is much higher and the only thing keeping her from true bliss is probably something I did.
I suppose an actress could have the same thing. Very smart, pushed to excel in some credentialed field, but secretly really just likes to entertain people and decided "screw it, that's what I'm doing."
she was young bette midler in beaches. gotta have a nose!
Recently, Venus and Serena Williams are also being hyped as quasi-super models.
Are they elite tennis players?
Absolutely.
Are they sexually desirable?
Not to most men, regardless of race.
I am wondering if perhaps a few flakes of the red pill might make it into her system...
She is also a practicing Orthodox Jew; that implies a fairly rigid and high bar for moral behavior.
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