Bette Middler shares (potentially) transphobic tweet

[Dojo 19,365]

[Pennywise 34,610]

This is just the same rhetoric R*wling keeps spewing. Absolutely no trans people want "women" erased. Trans-inclusive language, especially in the field of medicine, saves lives.

Sure, "menstruator" or "birthing people" sound particularly dehumanizing I think, in my opinion there could be better language use that also includes trans women. However, those words (in this tweet) are not used much at all at the moment anyway, and this tweet therefore is generalizing something that is a non-issue and helping TERFs attack trans people.

So, miss thing here either does not know **** and just heard something and decided to make it an issue, or she's actively being a TERF. I hope it's the first one, though ignorance in this age is also... unsightly 

[Borisapillar 6,579]

And of course JK Rowling immediately retweeted. 
 

I think this will go quite badly for Bette, but I don’t think she was being intentionally transphobic. Something tells me she will have to apologize for this and clarify what she meant after someone at Disney tells her to. 
 

[Pennywise 34,610]

look at me writing a whole essay, thesis writing really got to me huh 

[PartySick 134,068]

I've never gotten terf vibes from her before. I think she's just ignorant to the rhetoric being adopted tbh. Hopefully she learns.

[PartySick 134,068]

2 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

look at me writing a whole essay, thesis writing really got to me huh 

We love the passion though

[Chromatography 9,498]

am i being ignorant? i don’t think that’s what she meant at all. i read it as women are just viewed as vessels/incubators for men in light of roe v wade. obviously rowling retweeting it doesn’t look good and puts it in a different context but i read it as women are viewed as second class citizens in the us which i think is true 

[Anderson123 30,821]

If I read that on Twitter instead of this thread I'd have never thought it's transphobic.. but that's just me idk. I don't think that's what she meant. Either way it's gonna get messy and stuff is going to happen, especially with Hocus Pocus 2 on the way.

[PartySick 134,068]

2 minutes ago, Chromatography said:

i read it as women are just viewed as vessels/incubators for men in light of roe v wade

That's fair but this language is very terf-y so...I'll just add "potentially" to the thread title and hope she clarifies later

[Pennywise 34,610]

1 minute ago, PartySick said:

That's fair but this language is very terf-y so...I'll just add "potentially" to the thread title and hope she clarifies later

Someone tweeted this 
 

 

[LadyEnigma 952]

does she have a past of being transphobic, because with what's currently going on i feel like this is more directed towards "pro-lifers" and the men who view women as incubators.

[PartySick 134,068]

Just now, Pennywise said:

Someone tweeted this 
 

 

Yeah, so others are reading it the same way

But she's consistently been anti-right so I think @Chromatography and @Anderson123 might be right and she was making a point that women are more than incubators. It's a shame transphobes have hijacked feminism so badly that stating that can be interpreted as transphobia.

[Dojo 19,365]

always editing my titles, there's no creative freedom in here

[Ouranos 502]

Bette luvs our community I really doubt she meant it that way

[PartySick 134,068]

Just now, Julia Fox said:

always editing my titles, there's no creative freedom in here

Accuracy > creativity