Rachel Bilson’s Response to Criticism of her Views on Males’s Sexual Lives

Rachel Bilson. Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs

Rachel Bilson fired again after Whoopi Goldberg slammed her opinion {that a} man with lower than 4 sexual companions is “a bit of bizarre.”

“I need to say that I’ve been a fan of Whoopi’s for a really very long time, so after I noticed the tagline that she criticized one thing I mentioned, I in fact was involved,” Bilson, 42, informed Leisure Weekly on Thursday, October 5, after saying she watched Goldberg, 67, focus on a latest episode of her “Broad Concepts” podcast on The View partly earlier that day.

Bilson defined: “I feel it’s necessary to listen to an entire dialog earlier than casting your personal judgment or criticism on one thing.”

The O.C. alum insisted that her workforce makes the podcast “a really protected open place to debate something,” noting she and cohost and pal Olivia Allen “have been simply speaking” when the subject of sexual companions got here up on her Monday, October 2, episode.

“I’ve the ability to edit our podcast, and I selected to maintain the dialog as an entire in, as a result of numerous the time in life, you say one thing, and perhaps you may have a minute and also you replicate on it,” Bilson continued. “The purpose I get throughout is that it doesn’t matter, and perhaps previously I might’ve checked out it [judgmentally], however I wouldn’t do this anymore. I made it clear that I don’t need to sound judgmental, it was necessary that that time get throughout, not what I mentioned initially.”

Bilson made headlines on Monday after she revealed on her podcast that she’d discover it “a bit of bizarre” if a person in his 40s had “solely slept with 4 girls.” She then acknowledged that “all of it relies upon” on the individual, explaining that if the person’s been in a decade-long relationship then it’s “completely respectable.”

Bilson clarified in the course of the broadcast that it wasn’t “honest” for her to move judgment on somebody’s intercourse life. She famous that whereas she used to ask males about their variety of previous companions, she “most likely wouldn’t” do this transferring ahead.

Whoopi Goldberg. ABC/Jeff Lipsky

Goldberg, for her half, weighed in on Bilson’s feedback in the course of the Thursday episode of The View and took concern with the subject.

“I’m sorry, I feel it’s very odd that you simply’re involved that he’s had sexual companions — any sexual companions. Why is it your corporation?” Goldberg mentioned. “Pay attention, males, historically, have been taught to have many sexual companions. That’s the way it was. Males might go and do no matter they wished to do, and girls weren’t alleged to. Now, that has been shifting, and younger girls have been bitching about, you recognize, ‘Why are you telling me what I ought to be [doing?]’ Now, it’s occurring [the other way around] and also you’re mad. I don’t perceive.”

Trying again on her remarks, Bilson informed EW that it was “a flippant remark that I used to be simply speaking [about] with mates” that she then “retracted.”

The Hart of Dixie alum concluded: “As a result of even speaking about it now, I’m like, I don’t really consider that. That’s why I feel it’s necessary to face up for it and make clear.”

Allen, in the meantime, backed her cohost, telling the outlet, “The truth that Rachel didn’t edit to make it current a sure method is a real reflection of what precise conversations in actual life are. That’s certainly one of our values, and I feel that if we’re going to proceed to try this, that individuals ought to take heed to the entire episode earlier than passing judgment.”