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Bette Midler

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FireFlyBoogaloo · 04/07/2022 17:31

Just posted on Twitter. The usual suspects are all over the replies, obviously, so give her some support if you can—but there's a surprising amount of balance. Seems to me that the scales have finally started to tip.

It was always going to be sunlight.

---WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”!
Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!---

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WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:51

I'm boggling as it's so unusual for an American celeb to be so matter of fact about this.

WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:51

She was also polite and has said elsewhere she supports the lgbt community. She'll use pronouns "if that's what you want." But it doesn't change the truth.

shes clear that sex matters.

Signalbox · 04/07/2022 22:45

WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:17

This is a longer clip of what Macy said.

I'm quite boggling at how matter fact she is!

twitter.com/piersuncensored/status/1544039013631270912?s=21&t=ryIwXiGP96ALq1aU5OVMbg

Yes she was completely matter of fact. This is good. Women no longer feeling the need to prefix what they say with a sentence or two to ensure that they are not mistaken for a transphobe. Women are cottoning on that they will be called transphobic regardless of how carefully they word what they say, so why beat around the bush.

mrshoho · 04/07/2022 22:42

achillestoes · 04/07/2022 22:24

@WarriorN

I had a tear in my eye when she said, ‘But it’s just the truth.’

Plain and simple. You cannot change the truth.

Tiphaine · 04/07/2022 22:41

WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:21

Omg I can't see what IW said but GO MACY!

Willoughby is such a prolific blocker of women on Twitter it's now awash with screenshots

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WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:25

Where did SHE come from?! ❤️

achillestoes · 04/07/2022 22:24

@WarriorN

I had a tear in my eye when she said, ‘But it’s just the truth.’

achillestoes · 04/07/2022 22:23

I’ve just seen a popular tweet calling Bette Midler a “rich NYC liberal”.

🧐

WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:21

Omg I can't see what IW said but GO MACY!

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WarriorN · 04/07/2022 22:17

This is a longer clip of what Macy said.

I'm quite boggling at how matter fact she is!

twitter.com/piersuncensored/status/1544039013631270912?s=21&t=ryIwXiGP96ALq1aU5OVMbg

IvyTwines · 04/07/2022 22:16

I see the word 'terfs' is now trending on twitter, with the little sub headline 'actors'. Funny how how a tweet about women's rights in the face of the abortion ban is rapidly framed by twitter as being all about the trans.

AngelinaFibres · 04/07/2022 21:55

123Callie · 04/07/2022 21:08

People are realising that the attacks on women’s rights, whether from the TRAs or the anti abortionists, all have the same root: misogyny.

Women have clearly got too big for their boots recently and the men need to beat them back down one way or another.

We have spent our lives being told what to think by men who identified as men. Now a tiny ,tiny number have decided they are women and can therefore mansplain this bollocks ( which most still have) from inside our changing rooms, our toilets ,our sports teams and on and on. They aren't women. I will never, ever accept that a man can put on a wig and a dress and take some HRT and, boom , they are exactly the same as me. No, never. How dare the world be turned upside down for this . Thank god the tide is beginning to turn .

CrossPurposes · 04/07/2022 21:49
RadFemApparently · 04/07/2022 21:41

I've literally just signed back into my long-forgotten Twitter account for the first time in 10 years to like the tweet and follow her. She's bloody amazing.

I have actually been quite encouraged to see the word 'women' on so many posts and memes relating to the overturning of Roe vs Wade. Even from people who are very much TWAW in all of their other posts.

WarriorN · 04/07/2022 21:35

Madonna dared to say woman today....

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NellesVilla · 04/07/2022 21:35

So good to see an icon like Bette speak sense and shine a light on all the recent ridiculousness. Hopefully a new start.

Go roar, Brilliant Bette and Marvellous Macy!!

WhiskersPete · 04/07/2022 21:31

Yes to Hadley Freeman's reply too!

DoubleYouOhEmAyEn · 04/07/2022 21:31

Love Macy. So glad she's out & proud as GC. Bette's a legend. Rise up!

Thelikelylass · 04/07/2022 21:31

wow! yesterday I had my friends round for drinks. I played Bette Midler AND Macy Gray on my apple play, not be accident but by choice.
Bette Midler has a HUGE gay following so it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
She is fabulous live by the way, and a fearless comedienne so doubt she has stumbled into this.

Arnaquer · 04/07/2022 21:27

I let out a little cheer when I read it and also Hadley Freeman's pithy retort to the mansplaining

Acqua · 04/07/2022 21:25

...and subscribed to Bette Midler's Youtube Channel. Who knew she had one?!

Acqua · 04/07/2022 21:23

Just subscribed to Macy Gray's Youtube Channel. The only way I know how to say thank you :-) 👏

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Vargas · 04/07/2022 21:08

Brilliant!! Love her, hope she doesn't back down. Hopefully like JKR she's too big to fail...

And Macy Gray - whoop! Spotify here I come.

123Callie · 04/07/2022 21:08

People are realising that the attacks on women’s rights, whether from the TRAs or the anti abortionists, all have the same root: misogyny.

Women have clearly got too big for their boots recently and the men need to beat them back down one way or another.

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