Whoopi Goldberg didn’t appreciate Rachel Bilson saying it’s “weird” if a single man in his 40s has only slept with four women.
“I don’t understand. To me, if he’s happy with you and you’re having a good time, why are you bitching?” the “Sister Act” star said on Thursday’s episode of “The View.”
The longtime co-host confessed that she finds it “odd” that Bilson is “concerned that he’s had sexual partners — any sexual partner.”
“Why is it your business? It’s not your business,” she continued.
Goldberg became frustrated because in the past, women were “bitching” about how “men traditionally were taught to have many sexual partners” and could “do whatever they wanted to do,” but now it’s turned into the opposite.
“So now this is happening and now you mad? I don’t understand,” she said.
The “Ghost” star’s co-host Joy Behar chimed in and reminded Goldberg that it’s more about the “quality of the four” rather than the “quantity.”
“But she doesn’t know what the quality is!” Goldberg, 67, clapped back.
Behar, 80, seemed to have a more light-hearted approach to the controversial statement and joked, “If just one out of the four could locate my G-spot, I’m all in! I don’t need thousands of them, give me one good one, right, ladies?
“I know where it is, I’m gonna find a search party soon for them to find it.”
Meanwhile, the other women, including Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin, stated that they “don’t want to know anything about ex sexual partners” when it comes to their current husbands.
Bilson, 42, discussed the hot topic on an episode of her “Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson” podcast on Monday.
“This is gonna sound so judgmental, but if a dude is in his 40s and he [has] only slept with four women,” the “O.C.” actress said, adding it’d be “a little weird.”
“Maybe he’s been in decade [long] relationships, totally respectable,” she continued. “But if he’s single in his 40s and it’s only four and he’s never been in the long term, that’s an issue.”
Yet following the backlash, Bilson clarified that she wasn’t trying to be “judgmental” and encouraged fans to actually listen to the “whole conversation.”
“I want to say that I’ve been a fan of Whoopi’s for a very long time, so when I saw the tagline that she criticized something I said, I of course was concerned,” Bilson told Entertainment Weekly Thursday.
She went on to explain that her podcast is “a very safe open place to discuss anything” and that the topic of sexual partners just so happened to be brought up.
“It was a flippant comment that I was just talking with friends, and then I retracted it, because even talking about it now, I’m like, I don’t actually believe that,” Bilson said. “That’s why I think it’s important to stand up for it and clarify.”
