Mayim Bialik Won’t Stay Silent On Orthodox Blurring Out Women’s Faces
If you think the fact that Mayim Bialik can’t speak for a month will keep her from publicly sharing her opinion, you obviously don’t know Mayim Bialik.
Despite strained vocal chords, Bialik took to Instagram to share her opinion about an Orthodox journal’s policy of blurring women’s faces out in ads.
Bialik’s comments come in response to an incident in which Adina Miles, aka “Flatbush Girl”, an Orthodox comedian and Instagram personality living in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was told by the Flatbush Jewish Journal that she would have to blur her face in an ad she was running in its magazine.
Miles responded to the journal’s policy with an Instagram post of her own.
Bialik is an outspoken feminist who runs an active YouTube page where she shares her —sometimes controversial — opinions with her fans. Good to know we’ll have her Instagram to turn to in this month of YouTube silence.
Becky Scott is the editor of The Schmooze. Follow her on Twitter, @arr_scott
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