{"id":1541508,"date":"2022-07-06T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541508"},"modified":"2022-07-06T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:51:45","slug":"it-wasnt-about-that-bette-midler-responds-to-criticism-about-alleged-transphobic-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-wasnt-about-that-bette-midler-responds-to-criticism-about-alleged-transphobic-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Wasn\u2019t About That\u2019: Bette Midler Responds To Criticism About Alleged \u2018Transphobic\u2019 Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-wasnt-about-that-bette-midler-responds-to-criticism-about-alleged-transphobic-tweet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/bette-midler\">Bette Midler<\/a> is responding to all the backlash about her alleged \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\">transphobic<\/a>\u201d comments from earlier this week, defending her original tweet and doubling down on why she wrote it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPEOPLE OF THE WORLD! My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\">tweet<\/a> about women was a response to this fascinating and well written piece in the NYT on July 3rd. There was no intention of anything exclusionary or transphobic in what I said;\u00a0 it wasn\u2019t about that,\u201d Midler <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1544470451476467715\">shared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was about the same old sh** women \u2013 ALL WOMEN \u2013 have been putting up with since the cavemen. Even then, men got top billing. But seriously, folks, if anyone who read that tweet thinks I have anything but love for any marginalized people, go to Wikipedia and type in my name,\u201d she continued in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1544470452889853952\">follow-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve fought for marginalized people for as long as I can remember. Still, if you want to dismiss my 60 years of proven love and concern over a tweet that accidentally angered the very people,\u201d Midler <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1544470454005538816\">continued<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always supported and adored, so be it.\u00a0 But the truth is, Democracy is slipping through our fingers! I\u2019m all in on trying to save Democracy for ALL PEOPLE. We must unite, because, in case you haven\u2019t been paying attention, divided we will definitely fall,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1544470455167422464\">concluded<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The linked article led to a New York Times opinion piece titled, \u201cThe Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don\u2019t Count.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/03\/opinion\/the-far-right-and-far-left-agree-on-one-thing-women-dont-count.html?smid=url-share\">article<\/a> blames conservatives for stripping women\u2019s rights by overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but it doesn\u2019t let liberals off the hook. Instead, the author accuses radical leftists of disrespecting women in a different way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of academics, uber-progressives, transgender activists, civil liberties organizations and medical organizations are working toward an opposite end: to deny women their humanity, reducing them to a mix of body parts and gender stereotypes,\u201d writer Pamela Paul argued. She does not agree with language which eliminates the word women or their essential roles, including new terms such as \u201cmenstruators\u201d and \u201cbodies with vaginas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Midler seems to agree with that assessment. The original tweet that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas\">got her into trouble<\/a> said, \u201cWOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t call us \u2018women\u2019 anymore; they call us \u2018birthing people\u2019 or \u2018menstruators,\u2019 and even \u2018people with vaginas!\u2019 Don\u2019t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n<p>Critics were quick to call out Midler for what they called trans-exclusionary language, comparing her to another famous TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), J.K. Rowling. Other followers agreed with Miller and applauded her for speaking out on the highly controversial topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas\">Bette Midler Gets Attacked As A \u2018TERF\u2019 After Saying Women Are Being Erased Due To Terms Like \u2018Birthing People,\u2019 \u2018People With Vaginas\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bette Midler is responding to all the backlash about her alleged \u201ctransphobic\u201d comments from earlier this week, defending her original tweet and doubling down on why she wrote it. \u201cPEOPLE OF THE WORLD! My tweet about women was a response to this fascinating and well written piece in the NYT on July 3rd. There was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1541569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}