Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik targeted for victim blaming in Weinstein scandal

MAYIM Bialik’s copped flak for her take on the Harvey Weinstein scandal after penning a piece about how she’s avoided harassment during her long career.

IN AN effort to give her point of view on the ever-growing scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein and sexism in Hollywood, Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik has opened herself up to some sharp ridicule from fans.

The star, who typically gives her opinion on the issues of the day and her life by way of her blog, changed things up a bit by publishing a lengthy op-ed in The New York Times about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, in which she condemned a culture that puts women in situations like the ones Weinstein’s accusers found themselves in.

However, after including a portion about how she’s avoided Hollywood harassment for so long, many who read the piece are accusing her of blaming the victims for their own assaults.

While describing how she avoided such things by getting into the business at a young age and not being the typical Hollywood pretty-girl archetype, she mentioned how her choices in the business as an adult have helped her get by.

Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik in The Big Bang Theory.

“I still make choices every day as a 41-year-old actress that I think of as self-protecting and wise. I have decided that my sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with. I dress modestly. I don’t act flirtatiously with men as a policy,” she wrote.

Bialik immediately qualified the above statement by saying, “Women should be able to wear whatever they want. They should be able to flirt however they want with whomever they want. Why are we the ones who have to police our behaviour?”

However, many still took her words as evidence that she was shaming the women who fell victim for the way they dressed or acted.

Mayim Bialik calls herself a feminist but trashes women for being attractive and works on one of the most misogynistic shows on television 🤔

— Amy Elizadeath Kill (@amyandelizabeth) October 15, 2017

The #MayimBialik @nytimes opinion piece is so problematic and such a step back in the wrong direction. Victim-blaming is never okay. pic.twitter.com/5sJRe4yybu

— Emma Silva (@emmaclairesilva) October 15, 2017

Respectfully, this doesn't work. I cover my entire body+hair+ get harassed. Have friends in niqab who get harassed. https://t.co/5F6Wwd7eaN

— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) October 15, 2017

The schadenfruede that Mayim Bialik seems to have over the fact that she thinks that only pretty girls are sexually assaulted is gross

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) October 15, 2017

The negative backlash prompted the former Blossom star to post a response on Twitter inviting those speaking out against her to engage with her on the topic when she visits The New York Times today.

Being told my @NYTimes piece resonated w/ so many. Also see some have taken my words out of the context of the Hollywood machine. See below: pic.twitter.com/0NmxtAF1vP

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) October 15, 2017

This article was originally published on Fox News