While the end of the Roe v. Wade brought a lot the members on the left are disappointed togetheran increasing number of self-proclaimed feminists and celebrities have decided that now is the time to further restrict transgender and non-binary people by opposing transgender women in their fight for reproductive rights.
Among them are the singer and actor R&B Macy Graywho said that transgender women are not women in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored in Monday. (In the next appearance on TODAYshe said she felt bad because she had “hurt some people” but did not retract her statement.)
While Gray’s comment sent shockwaves through Twitter, people seemed less surprised when Bette Midler, the social media app’s worst freelance guru, issued what seemed to be a warning. for “women” in terms of language including homosexuality.
On July 4, the actress tweeted, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights to our bodies, our lives and even our names! They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthers’ or ‘menstruating people’, and even ‘vaginal people’! Don’t let them delete you! Every human on earth is indebted to you! “
In a later time tweet Defending herself against the backlash she received, Midler claimed that she was simply reacting to a “engaging and well-written work on NYTWritten by journalist Pamela Paul in a column criticizing the application of inclusive terms in conversations about reproductive health.
“I have fought for the marginalized for as long as I can remember,” A trick the actress continued to talk more some tweets. “However, if you want to dismiss my 60 years of proven love and care through a tweet that unintentionally angered the very people I have always supported and loved, then so be it.”
It turns out that a beloved gay icon is not a free card to speak of transgender and non-binary people as they are a threat to women’s rights.
“After she said some of the most divisive bullshit of her life and kept doubling it, now Bette has the courage to call for unity,” one user wrote. Quote tweeted. “Apologize or get out of the way. The salvation of democracy is no longer in your TERFy hands. “
“Bette Midler becoming TERF even though she started playing at the gay bath is a reminder that progress is like making food.” Written again. “You’re never really *done* with it. There will be new dishes to make tomorrow and you have to keep making them every day. “
It didn’t help either, earlier that day, Midler posted a photo of conservative Supreme Court justices taken with turbines, beards and burkas, seems to show a false equivalence between our country’s abortion ban and Sharia law.
Feminist advocates identify themselves with bigotry, xenophobia politics as a dime on the internet. But few have been more clear and persistent in a regressive stance disguised as women’s empowerment than Midler, whose Twitter account has become one of the most miserable places in terms of liberal identity. of Twitter. In fact, her tweets are often so bad that, if you refer someone to one of her posts from just the past few days with her username greyed out, it’s hard to tell. know whether she or Ben Shapiro is the author.
Some of Midler’s biggest hits include name the song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono “Woman Is The N****r of The World” when she expressed anger at the results of the Brett Kavanaugh FBI investigation in 2018. There was also a time when she ridicule former first lady Melania Trump for her English proficiency and called her “illegal aliens,” which is ultimately a very Trump thing to say. And before her most recent hit, she attack the inhabitants of West Virginia because there’s a bad senator, calling them “uneducated” and “torn apart.” Keep in mind that this is just a sample of her tasteless comments.
Considering that Midler tweets nothing but political opinions several times a day, we’re sure to get a lot of her gruesome tweets before the year (maybe month) is over. Likewise, it’s time for the people she insults every week to prioritize our sanity and withdraw from her account once and for all.
“Considering that Midler tweets nothing but political opinions several times a day, we’re sure to get a lot of her gruesome tweets before the year (maybe month) is over.“
I personally blocked Midler a few years ago because her tweet implied that (white) women were just as oppressed as Blacks while making Black women invisible. However, I can’t even like this choice because her words are constantly being screen-captured and appearing on my feed. Yes, watching the most ignorant celebrities can be fun and exciting. Occasionally, they will offer an internal apology after a bad tweet, regaining our trust and making us forget about their crimes against humanity. But anyone with a problematic grandparent or parent knows it’s impossible to change a 76-year-old man’s mind or guarantee that they really are. understood through a scolding on Twitter.
It’s a shame that someone with as much money, prizes, and access to luxury vacations as Midler is logging into Twitter everyday pretending she’s an MSNBC manager. Why not let her live with that shame and continue our days in peace?
Again, I understand the emotional release of being angry at a celebrity (and I’ve certainly done it a number of times). But in Midler’s case, it’s really like talking to a wall, as opposed to calling on celebrities to be able to partake in the criticism to some extent or at least delete the ones. their rotten tweets after they were balanced.
It’s not fun to interact with someone with a historical photo of a flower as their profile picture, or who posted political memes from Facebook since 2016. Those people can’t be polarized. radicalization. So I invite you all to hit the block button and pretend that Midler doesn’t have a bad case of Twitter Brain.
