Following comments recently made
by The Big Bang Theory starlet Kaley
Cuoco-Sweeting, this week Luxe Models asks; what does it mean to be a feminist?
Rehabilitating the Image of the Word ‘Feminist.’
Ask anyone in the know – like
Luxe Models – and they’ll soon tell you that 2014 could very well be labelled
as the year the word ‘feminist’ made a comeback.
Long derided as a term reserved for
the man-haters of the world, stars such as Beyoncé and Taylor Swift took on the
considerable task of rehabilitating the image of this loaded word in 2014. By
year’s end, the efforts of these vaunted A-listers saw the word feminist
reimagined as a term referring to the equality of the sexes.
Kaley Cuoco Admits to Not Thinking About Feminism
Yet feminism’s stand-out year did
not stop Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, the actress who plays Penny on phenomenally
popular comedy The Big Bang Theory,
from denying
that the term applied to her.
According to Digital Spy,
Cuoco-Sweeting was asked whether she considered herself as a feminist in a
recent interview with Redbook. Her answer? "Is it bad if I say no? It's
not really something I think about."
Cuoco-Sweeting “Never Really Faced Inequality.”
Going on to reveal that she’s “never
really faced inequality," the actress who rose to fame in 8 Simple Rules went on to talk about her
own experiences as a woman.
"Things
are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women
happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding
equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality."
You Could Face Discrimination at Any
Time
In
other words, Cuoco-Sweeting seems to be suggesting that in order to be a
feminist, you need to be given a reason to take up the cause of women
everywhere. At Luxe Models, we’d suggest that this is perhaps just a little
short-sighted. Just because you haven’t faced inequality so far, doesn’t mean
you won’t as you continue to craft a standout career in what is still sometimes
considered a male-dominated world.
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