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Angela Lansbury is not a woman you expect to see trending on Twitter. At 92 years old, she’s blessed us with such classics as Gaslight, The Manchurian Candidate and, of course, Murder, She Wrote. Seeing her name in headlines these days only gives cause for concern — but not the way you might think.

In an interview with the Radio Times this week, she was asked to comment on the current wave of sexual harassment and assault allegations making their way through Hollywood, and her answer probably wouldn’t make Jessica Fletcher proud.

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“There are two sides to this coin,” she said. “We have to own up to the fact that women, since time immemorial, have gone out of their way to make themselves attractive. And unfortunately it has backfired on us — and this is where we are today. We must sometimes take blame, women. I really do think that. Although it’s awful to say we can’t make ourselves look as attractive as possible without being knocked down and raped.”

She added, “Should women be prepared for this? No, they shouldn’t have to be! There’s no excuse for that. And I think it will stop now — it will have to. I think a lot of men must be very worried at this point.”

While that second quote certainly softened the blow of the first, Lansbury was blasted all over social media for her casual misogyny.