Actress Kaley Cuoco, star of the CBS hit comedy “Big Bang Theory,” has outraged many on Twitter for comments she made on feminism in a recent interview with Redbook magazine. First up, here’s what she said:
Scandalous? Hardly. But the outrage that followed was entirely predictable:
.@Cosmopolitan how can someone who is reaping the benefits of the feminist movement (via her large paycheck) not be a "feminist"?
— Jamie Rae Gibson (@JamieRaeGibson) December 30, 2014
@GlamourMagUK I find her attitude so selfish. Feminism is a worldwide movement to help ALL women…which should be in her interests too.
— Florence Grace | UK Curvefluencer (@florencegraceuk) December 31, 2014
https://twitter.com/milyelle/status/550245342827270144
Urgh RT“@TIME: Actress Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting: I don’t consider myself a feminist http://t.co/UYbdbumgoO pic.twitter.com/OivBtAJnNb”
— moon (@wittnsass) December 31, 2014
https://twitter.com/caitlinstasey/status/550192115255635968
https://twitter.com/erinspirationxo/status/550118300534198275
Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting’s thoughts on feminism are as tragic as her haircut. Barf.
— Nicole Pirshafiey (@NicoleMojan) December 31, 2014
Although not everyone was content to simply disagree with Cuoco’s worldview. Oh, no. They had to go and insinuate she was too stupid to understand what “feminism” truly means:
@KaleyCuoco says she's not a feminist, which is pretty silly: http://t.co/3fu1fczAaD
— CELEBUZZ (@CELEBUZZ) December 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/xyam70/status/550199504881082368
“@glamourmag: Here's the latest celeb who says she's not a feminist: http://t.co/3rgA4UpVvw” kaley should educate herself on current events
— jen_i_fer (@jen_i_fer) December 31, 2014
https://twitter.com/RachelxDuncan/status/550145290171604992
And we wonder if some of Kaley’s critics have ever watched the show:
Kaley Cuoco stars as a dumb blonde waitress who lives next door to a group of smart male scientists #BigBangTheory
— Jessica Abrahams (@jiabrahams) December 31, 2014
Where's the show in which a clueless dumb guy lives next door to a group of brilliant female physicists? #BigBangTheory
— Jessica Abrahams (@jiabrahams) December 31, 2014
That's the inequality she's missing
— Jessica Abrahams (@jiabrahams) December 31, 2014
We won’t go into a lengthy analysis of the “Big Bang Theory” here, but in many ways Kaley’s character is the smartest one of the group. And as for equality, she just signed a reported $72 million contract:
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Cuoco, Parsons and Galecki tripled their salaries from $325K per episode to ‘about $1 million per half-hour and an increased cut of the back-end.’
Look at that: Her salary is equal to that of the male co-stars!
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