Bette Midler Accused Of Bigotry After Pro-Choice Tweet
Bette Midler sent out a Tweet on Tuesday that had some folks up in arms over the message she appeared to try and send
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It’s getting pretty dicey these days about and around what you can say about who or who you are referencing even when trying to maybe say something uplifting. It would appear that Bette Midler found this out on Tuesday, running afoul of some internet mobs for a Tweet she put out apparently in reference to the discussions around the labels for women. The backlash to Midler’s comments was swift and severe with some calling her transphobic because of the way she worded her comments. Whether it was meant this way, or was just a person not exactly caught up on the correct verbiage isn’t quite clear. But Bette Midler’s comments definitely didn’t go over well with some parts of the population.
In her Tweet, Bette Midler seemed to be advocating for women and their bodies, calling for something of a reckoning in the way that women are referred to these days. In her message, Midler decries those who would label women a certain way without seeming to acknowledge their womanhood or even rights to individuality. But from this Midler drew backlash in the way she phrased the definition of women or the labels that might not be in line with a modern-day dialogue about the subject. Check out what Bette Midler said and see if you agree with the message.
There were those that thought this Tweet from Bette Midler constituted her being a TERF or a person that excludes transgender women in the discussion around advocating for women’s rights. In comments to the Bette Midler post, many jumped in to say that discussions around transgender topics weren’t the erasure of women and that there were, in fact, ways to be more inclusive around the subject rather than being opposed to how women are being treated. And there was a call to use more inclusive language rather than trying to label things in such a way.
Bette Midler, in her tweet, was referring to the differences in names when it came to women on a biological level. She seemed to be making the distinction that the word “woman” should be reserved for those who were “born that way” so to speak. This drew the ire of the opposition who would make the claim that the distinctions Bette Midler is referring to aren’t inclusive, but rather isolates the transgender crowd into a different group.
And this Bette Midler Tweet came right around the same time that singer and actress Macy Gray had made comments in a similar vein, though decidedly more direct in her approach. She talked with Piers Morgan saying, “I will say this and everyone’s gonna hate me but as a woman, just because you go change your (body) parts, doesn’t make you a woman, sorry.” While Bette Midler’s message was seemingly clouded in a bit of possible confusion or even a misdirected Pro-choice message, Gray made herself pretty clear on the subject. It all coalesced into a big mess around a topic that is only picking up in steam in recent years.
