Clueless Reporters Get Schooled: 7 Times Famous Women Shut Down Sexist Questions (VIDEO)

http://www.alternet.org/gender/clueless-reporters-get-schooled-7-times-famous-women-shut-down-sexist-questions-video

Melissa McCarthy sat down with Ellen DeGeneres this week and rehashed a face-to-face encounter she had with a sexist reporter who called her “hideous” in her 2014 film “Tammy.” She turned the tables on him by asking the question “Would you do this to a man?”

If this story sounds at all familiar, it’s probably because it’s a recurring one in pop culture — even in the year 2015: Moderator asks implicitly sexist question. Female public figure calls them out. Story goes viral. Repeat. Hillary Clinton fired back with the same question when she was asked what designers she wore during a panel she was at to speak about Kyrgyzstani issues … just moments after addressing workplace sexism. Keira Knightley proposed the question, too, when she was asked just last year how she was able to juggle her personal life with her career.

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Red carpet commentators caught up Bialik on 20th Annual SAG Awards red carpet before the show. One of the reporters tried to make some small talk with the nominee, observing that, hey!, she plays a neuroscientist on the show and is a woman IRL. He didn’t consider that she may have formal training outside that role.

Reporter: “Being on the ‘Big Bang Theory,’ how many people — not that you aren’t a genius — think that you can solve calculus at the drop of a hat?”

Bialik: “Ummm…I was actually trained in calculus. For several years. I’m a neuroscientist.”