Bette Midler has long been associated with gay culture, being a purveyor of showtunes and bland liberalism. In the runup to the fascist takeover of the USA, she wrote a very TERFy op ed in some newspaper or another (this is not factually accurate, see correction in comments). As transphobia was one of the levers the nazis used to gain power, she directly contributed to that.
And yet a month or so after the old Woody Guthrie song “You Fascists Bound to Lose” started trending on yewchoob, to what should my wondering eyes appear? Bette Midler doing a cover of that song! Look gays, she hates fascists almost as much as she hates transgender people!
I hope no other bloggers or commenters on FtB will post anything about her anywhere. Trans Day of Visibility. Make that shit go unseen. I only mention its existence the way you say Dracula! before you raise the crucifix.
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feel free to post versions by better human beings
I took a look: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bette-midler-viral-tweet-transphobia-allegations-1378484/
(She’s a bit clueless about it)
editing ain’t what it used to be, headline at the article there “transophobic.” it seems i misread the thing i’d seen about her, thought she’d wrote something more than a tweet. fine. still not interested in her shit.