Monday, October 16, 2017
Mayim Bialik: Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s World
NYTimes.com: I entered the Hollywood machine in 1986 as a prominent-nosed, awkward, geeky, Jewish 11-year-old — basically a scrawnier version of the person I am today. Back then we didn’t have the internet or social media or reality TV, but I didn’t need any of that to understand that I didn’t look or act like other girls in my industry, and that I was immersing myself in a business that rewarded physical beauty and sex appeal above all else.
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I really like that this article acknowledges the problems that Hollywood has in relation to looking at women in an solely objectifying way, while also being able to show and depict the ways in which Hollywood is doing an at-least-okay job at depicting the "otherness" in people. While I am not the biggest Big Bang Theory fan, I have enjoyed watching a show that has cast different looking, different acting, obviously smart people in it, and this includes Mayim Bialik herself. It is true, as Bialik says, that women are so, so often treated in Hollywood solely based on their looks, however, it is not only in Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment that this is true. In the work force in general, women are expected to wear makeup and look stereotypically pretty, and if they fail to do so, there will be less attention put on them and their hard work. This is a construct that must change, especially today.
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