Alyssa Milano Says Women Should Not Be Seen as ‘Complicit’ for Not ‘Denouncing’ Biden
Actress Alyssa Milano has been criticized for not being more vocal about a sexual assault allegation made against former Vice President Joe Biden . In March, Tara Reade accused Biden of sexually assaulting her while she…
Actress Alyssa Milano has been criticized for not being more vocal about a sexual assault allegation made against former Vice President Joe Biden.
In March, Tara Reade accused Biden of sexually assaulting her while she was working for him in the Senate in 1993, as IJR reported.
Milano, who is a proponent of the #MeToo movement, penned an op-ed for Deadline on Wednesday in response to some of the criticism she received, “As we started holding politicians and business leaders and celebrities around the world accountable for their actions, it was easy to sort things into their respective buckets: this is wrong, this is right.”
She continued, “Holding people accountable for their actions was not only right, it was just. Except it’s not always so easy, and living in the gray areas is something we’re trying to figure out in the world of social media.”
She also claimed that women are “not allowed anything but the binary extremes” and are “pressured to turn on one another.”
Milano explained why she continues to support Biden:
“It’s not up to women to admonish or absolve perpetrators, or be regarded as complicit when we don’t denounce them. Nothing makes this clearer than the women who are still supporting Joe Biden