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'Women are the n-word of the world': Twitter unrelenting in takedown of Bette Midler for terrible comparison

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:38 UTC

Actress and singer Bette Midler has been verbally flayed online after an ill-judged hot take stating: "Women are the n-word of the world."

Midler, 72, is widely known as both an environmental and civil rights activist as well as a self-declared ally of marginalized groups in society. However, her past good behavior did not spare her from the baying Twitter mob Thursday night.

Midler initially defended the tweet by drawing attention to the cause-du-jour, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, while also claiming she was invoking the sentiments of Yoko Ono, who infamously penned a song with her late husband John Lennon called 'Woman is the N***er of the world', in 1972.

It wasn't long before the tidal wave of backlash forced her into an embarrassing climbdown mere hours later in which she deleted the offending tweets and apologized.

Once again, however, backlash was immediate, intense and unrelenting. She was then accused of 'whitesplaining' as a means of damage limitation.

Reader Comments

Searcher · 2018-10-06T01:16:39Z

I liked that song. At the time it is totally appropriate.

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Bezel Bub · 2018-10-06T02:02:39Z

Not true Bette. I put all women up on a pedestal....mostly so I can look up their dress...

Woodsman · 2018-10-06T03:07:44Z

But... It's Twitter.

An "Unrelenting tidal wave of Twitter backlash" really only means a bunch of ducks are knobbling at you with their silly little beaks.

If Bette Midler was learned in the ways of the Troll, she might have walked away for a day or two and then come back to tweet, "Oh, are you all still at it? Sorry, I was out here in the real world."

Then:

"Here's a game which you may indignantly try to not play but secretly will anyway: Count the number of hysterical SJW Tweets you posted this week." Then provide a scale from 1 to Bitter. Perhaps with witty gradations in between including words like, "Loser" "Infertile" "Celibate" and "By Default".

Then walk away for another 24 hours. Rinse and repeat until the Twitter-verse either collapses into a singularity or realizes the hard truth that Twitter is for the birds.

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Nah. That's too cruel. They'll figure it out on their own without help.

Evster · 2018-10-06T04:24:43Z

I would be surprised if 5% of the SJW people on Twitter know any Lennon beyond Imagine, and that only because it was used in an Anti-Defamation League commercial (Amnesty Int’l used it too). The culture is on life support and it ain’t looking good. It’s like “trying to shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind."

yournamehere · 2018-10-06T05:11:24Z

Horrible comparison. Bette Midler didn't take philosophy in college did she? Horrible comparison. Is she comparing women to the use of the n word or the person normally called the n word? An extreme comparison and an e-flogging she got.

Lemuel Gulliver · 2018-10-06T07:26:39Z

Bette Midler is a goddess. She should brush off the SJW snowflakes like mud off the soles of her shoes, tell them they should worry about their real-world problems, like getting a real job that pays money, so they can pay off their student loans they incurred for their degrees in "Gender Studies" from the University of Bad Seepage, Ohio, and move out of their parents' houses. Bette is a real woman with a heart of solid gold, not like these fragile "wimmin" who break out in screams if they see a man within 100 yards. And if they are objecting to the n-word, I would take a bet 95% of them are as white as little daisies.