Bette won’t work in Hollywood after this.
Via Daily Mail:
Bette Midler caused uproar on Thursday with a 49-year-old Yoko Ono quote.
The actress tweeted that ‘women are the n-word of the world’ — and the internet was not happy about it.
The 72-year-old was attempting to make a point about the oppression of women, just like the originator.
‘Raped, beaten, enslaved, married off, worked like dumb animals; denied education and inheritance; enduring the pain and danger of childbirth and life IN SILENCE for THOUSANDS of years,’ she wrote. ‘They are the most disrespected creatures on earth.’
The post was met with fury, with many attacking her use of the racist term, however censored or derived.
Many more slammed the Hocus Pocus star for comparing the plight of women to the mistreatment of black people.
‘It’s time to retire that quote. It minimizes racism and is counterproductive to intersectional feminism. The shock value is in NO WAY worth the harm to Black people,’ one Twitter user wrote.
There is no reason to use this quote,’ another added. ‘Among MANY problems with it, it erases black women and this is unacceptable at any time, but especially now when we as white women are in such debt to black women and should be using our privilege to elevate, not eliminate, their voices.’
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