Clueless actress Stacey Dash, who’s willingly placed herself in the line of fire multiple times over the past year, has once again waded into controversy, this time about the transgender bathroom debate in the U.S.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday, Dash went on a tirade about trans people, and also said that feminism is “ruining” men.
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“It’s tyranny by the minority, she said. “Why do I have to suffer because you can’t decide what you wanna be that day?” Dash said. “It’s your body! So, it’s your decision, right? We all make choices.”
When ET host Nischelle Turner said to Dash that trans people don’t actually decide to be trans, Dash acquiesced, but then said she doesn’t want to endanger her children and it’s “infringing upon her rights too much.”
Dash, 49, is promoting her memoir on the talk-show circuit. The book, titled There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative, includes a section on Caitlyn Jenner in which Dash berates her for using the women’s bathroom in the Trump Tower.
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Before the ET interview was over, Dash took a few jabs at modern feminism.
“We are the most powerful creatures on the planet, women,” she said. “That’s why I hate when they say ‘I don’t get this, I don’t get that.’ I’m like, ‘Come on! We have the men. We raise the men. So, let’s start letting them be men.’ Stop trying to be men. Let’s be women. And let’s let men be men. Let’s empower them to be men, because I feel like they’re falling away.”
The ’90s actress revealed to ET that she’s starting her own brand: Dash America. According to Dash, it will change the way the world sees modern feminists.
“I can look like I look and use all the tools in my toolbox, be a stay-at-home mother and a wife and be a feminist or be a CEO of a company, and wear a dress and show my legs and whatever God gave me and be a feminist,” she said. “I don’t have to dress like a man or try to beat a man or try and get a man’s job to be a feminist.”
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“What we’re doing is we’re chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine,” she continued. “And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We’re chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to Mad Men days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.”
Dash also bashed Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga in the interview.
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