Pamela Anderson Takes On Victim-Blaming Charge After Comments She Made About Harvey Weinstein Scandal

While Pamela Anderson has mostly fallen out of relevance with regards to her acting lately, she recently managed to find her way back into the spotlight, although in a much more negative light this time.

The actress made some controversial statements about the Harvey Weinstein scandal and implied that most of the victims should have had more common sense about the whole situation.

The Weinstein scandal is a very hot and sensitive topic right now, and as can be expected, such comments were not taken lightly by the Internet community.

It did not take long for the critical comments to start pouring in, along with some downright hateful ones — but to Anderson’s credit, she at least knows where she stands, and it looks like she has given this a lot of thought.

The actress refused to back down or apologize, and in fact, she made additional statements which further dug her into the controversial position.

She stated that her sole intent was to make women more aware of the things happening around them, and to prevent situations of abuse from occurring in the future.

According to Anderson, avoiding certain things — like getting in the car of a stranger, or entering the suite of a higher-up who answers the door in a bathrobe — is common sense and women should know better.

Whether she really is trying to be educative in her statements or if that is an attempt to calm down the masses is difficult to say, as her tone seems to imply the latter. Any further comments made by Anderson on the situation could possibly shed some light on her true stance.

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I think this narrative of "victim blaming" and "lack of solidarity" is trying to coerce me (and others) into consensus on something that should be debated and discussed broadly. I can tell you that from my experience of working on protectin – be it a protection of journalists and human rights defenders and internet security – there is ALWAYS a call and recommendation to see the issues in their complexity. There is understanding of a need to address the issue on structural and legal level, to punish perpetrators but also to build resiliance and ability of "self-protection". What techniques you should use online, what precautions you should take when covering certain issues as a journalists. There are also a lot of self-protection courses. There is even a well known story of suffragettes learning martial arts and protection when doing activism for right to vote. I did not say that women deserved being abused or that the pigs like Weinstein were not to be punished. Quite an opposite, I said myself that Weinstein is a sexist pig and a bully. So this is not victim blaming but looking at the issue from the angle of women being aware of certain problems and how to spot them and fight them. It is totally hypocritical to ignore this. And it is not helping anyone to ignore the realities in the society we live in. The causes of the problem and solutions are complex and women who do not live in the utopian bubble must be aware of what is going on. And that is what I have highlighted. I do NOT wish apologise for what I said. And will not get coerced into apology. This exactly what I am saying is a problem with the contemporary "victimhoood feminism"! The people who subscribe to that notion tolerate and actually expect women to talk about the stories of abuse and experiences with creeps.  But they would NOT tolerate a woman with her own opinion. So pathetic. Px @TMZ @todayshow @megynkelly

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However, what is clear, victim-blaming is not a tactic that will find many fans social media.

Those fighting back call this groupthink, and the phenomenon is very powerful and forces a good bit of people to remain silent when it comes to scandals to avoid a backlash like the one Anderson is currently facing.