As celebrities took to Twitter to remember Carrie Fisher after her death Tuesday, one tribute raised some eyebrows.
"When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well," Steve Martin reportedly wrote.
Shortly after his message was posted, Martin began to receive flack for the tweet. Many believed that he was saying a woman's intelligence and wit came as a secondary surprise to her beauty, in opposition to how Fisher viewed women in society.
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In New York Magazine, writer Claire Landsbaum pointed out the disparity and noted that Fisher fought against the oversexualization of women her whole life.
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"Let's not forget that these movies are basically boys' fantasies," Fisher told Rolling Stone of the "Star Wars" franchise in 1983. "So the other way they made her more female in this one was to have her take off her clothes."
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Despite the negative reaction to Martin's tweet, others believed that it was written with the best of intentions and not as a slight to Fisher.
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Martin has since deleted his tweet but has not issued any public comment about it.
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