Given her accomplishments, it’s not surprising that Mayim Bialik considers herself a feminist, although one that’s hardly extreme. “A lot of people …. think feminists are all man-hating, no make-up wearing militants,” she noted on Facebook. “We’re not all like that!” Her moderation, however, didn’t stop her from blasting shows like the hit Disney flick “Frozen,” declaring it exposed young girls to sexist manhunting urges. “My issue is that this is a movie geared to small children who I don’t think need to be focusing on that as the main driving plot of a movie, especially when it’s not a literary or historically-based fairy tale,” she wrote in Kveller.
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Critics, however, have taken apart Bialek’s show, “The Big Bang Theory,” for its own particular brand of chauvinism. While some of them were mild in their criticism, believing that the B-type geeks could get away with sexist behavior on “adorkable” grounds, others were much harsher. In a Pop Culture Detective YouTube video, it’s noted that “Adorkable misogynists are male characters whose geeky version of masculinity is framed as both comically pathetic and endearing. And it’s their status as nerdy nice guys that then lets them off the hook for a wide range of creepy, entitled, and downright sexist behaviors.” Despite its 12-season run, the series had plenty of detractors, who likely weren’t sad when ratings dropped and the show ended in 2019. As one person told Newsbeat (via BBC), “I think it can be really misogynistic and can be quite sexist.”
