Mila Kunis Pens Open Letter About Blatant Sexism In Hollywood
Posted on Thu Nov 3rd, 2016 11:30am PDT By X17 Staff
Mila Kunis ain't staying silent!
The Bad Moms actress has written an open letter in A Plus magazine, which is husband Ashton Kutcher's online publication about positive journalism, about sexism in Hollywood -- and it's blowing up the Internet!
- "Throughout my career, there have been moments when I have been insulted, sidelined, paid less, creatively ignored, and otherwise diminished based on my gender," she wrote. "And always, I tried to give people the benefit of the doubt; maybe they knew more, maybe they had more experience, maybe there was something I was missing. I taught myself that to succeed as a woman in this industry I had to play by the rules of the boy's club. But the older I got and the longer I worked in this industry, the more I realized that it's (expletive)! And, worse, that I was complicit in allowing it to happen."
In the letter, the Ukrainian-born actress detailed two specific experiences in her career where she dealt with sexism. In one instance, she says a male producer threatened that if she didn't pose semi-nude on the cover of a men's magazine that she would "never work in this town again."
The former That '70s Show actress wrote:
- "I was livid, I felt objectified, and for the first time in my career I said 'no.'"And guess what? The world didn't end. The film made a lot of money and I did work in this town again, and again, and again. What this producer may never realize is that he spoke aloud the exact fear every woman feels when confronted with gender bias in the workplace."
The actress then noted that a different male producer sent an email in which he called her Ashton Kutcher's "wife and baby momma!!!"
The 33-year-old wrote:
- "He reduced my value to nothing more than my relationship to a successful man and my ability to bear children. It ignored my (and my team's) significant creative and logistical contributions. We withdrew our involvement in the project."
The outspoken lady also made sure to say: "If this is happening to me, it is happening more aggressively to women everywhere." She's right!
She went on, "I am fortunate that I have reached a place that I can stop compromising and stand my ground, without fearing how I will put food on my table."
The brunette continued, "I am also fortunate that I have the platform to talk about this experience in the hope of bringing one more voice to the conversation so that women in the workplace feel a little less alone and more able to push back for themselves."
Hell yeah, Mila!