Bette Midler FTW

[mac56]

[geardaddy]

1. I love the Divine Ms. M!

[onecent]

2. I do too!!!!

[lagomorph777]

3. Exactly!

[Soxfan58]

4. .

[Stuart G]

5. FTW..(for those of us who didn't know) is ..."For The Win"....

...........?????.............................

[Cha]

13. Thanks :)

[Maynar]

39. Secondary meaning

F*ck The World.

Different context, of course.

[disndat]

6. Great Midler insight!

Short, succinct, and to the point.

[Cha]

14. Precisely.

[Amaryllis]

31. AMazing how much can be conveyed with so few words, yes?

[gademocrat7]

7. On point, Ms M.

[SpankMe]

8. Daaaaamn!! n/t

[smirkymonkey]

9. Touche!

[czarjak]

10. You're just going to disappoint Marco...

Again.

[FirstLight]

11. Zing!

One liners like this are so awesome...!

Bette is my hero!

[niyad]

12. the Divine Ms. M!!!!

[FreeState]

15. I love Bette but not this post

Homophobia has no place in this. Look at the replies to her post, all homophobic jokes excused because they are on "our side."

And people wonder why LGBT people don't feel accepted by the party.

[Ms. Toad]

17. An on DU.

Second one I've seen. The first one was deleted by the author after I objected to it.

[FreeState]

19. AS most LGBT people on here know, it doesn't matter what we feel or think

I have been here since the beginning and there have been many discussions and battles as you know, all go nowhere. We know out place.

[Ms. Toad]

20. I'm not so good at knowing my place.

I keep banging my head against a brick wall - hoping I'll dent the wall before I do serious brain damage.

[FreeState]

21. After what 15 years I've come to accept DU will never be gay friendly

Homophobia gets a pass every time do to "community standards" that do not take a minority into account.

By the way this isn't just an LGBT problem on DU, its true for a lot, if not all, minorities here.

[Ms. Toad]

22. Agreed as to the breadth of the problem. n/t

[NurseJackie]

23. Read this to my son and his husband... they both LOL'd and thought it was great!

They weren't offended at all.

And people wonder why LGBT people don't feel accepted by the party.

That's unfair. Maybe it's just a certain subset of very sensitive LGBT people, I don't know, but it could be.

[FreeState]

24. Wow, so your calling me very sensitive?

Gee thanks for trying to understand where people in the community are coming from. You put me in my place.

I am hardly the first or last to complain.

Thanks for making me not feel welcome here. Bulling works.

[NurseJackie]

26. Yes.

WowSo your calling be very sensitive?

Yes.

Gee thanks for trying to understand where people in the community are coming from.

Well "gee"... you're welcome! That's why I asked my resident experts. Two men that I trust and respect very much. They disagree with you, I agree with them.

I am hardly the first or last to complain.

Okay, so there are other very sensitive people such as yourself.

It doesn't justify saying that "LGBT people don't feel accepted by the party". Good grief! So much drama and hyperbole! I happen to know many who DO feel accepted by the party.

You put me in my place.

Another over-reaction. I didn't "put you in your place"... I gave you my opinion.

Thanks for making me not feel welcome here. Bulling works.

Nobody is bullying you.

[FreeState]

27. You are outright dismissing my opinion because you know better - thats bullying n/t

[NurseJackie]

30. No it's not.

27. You are outright dismissing my opinion because you know better

Well, actually, I'm dismissing it because I disagree with it. Other mature, reasonable and level-headed and less-sensitive homosexuals that I happen love and respect also disagree with it.

I also think you're being overly dramatic to say that LGBT people don't feel welcome in the Democratic Party... all because some anonymous posters on an internet forum have an opinion that's different from yours. Seriously? You'll trash the ENTIRE Democratic Party because someone had an opinion that was different than yours? Wow.

Bette Midler is a very talented singer, songwriter, actress AND COMEDIAN!

- thats bullying n/t

No it's not. But, by your yardstick, I could claim that you're "dismissing" my opinion, too. Does that mean you're "bullying" me? GMAFB!

[TheBlackAdder]

32. With one LTBTQ daughter and other gender fluid kids, I met the same treatment on another thread.

.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10743086


My kids open laugh at stuff like this, including various memes, and they are staunch Democrats.
One's in college, one heads off this fall, one's in high school still and too young to vote.
And it somehow doesn't matter that you have an open and accepting house, mentioning your
children, gets the, well, Samuel S. Jackson. . . treatment, without even knowing me.


Granted, they also laugh when they see me on here, "Oh, dad's on DU again!"
It's not hip for them. They like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and other services I don't use.


Our take is what I later wrote, which can apply to Putin too:
"Or that Trump is going well above just kissing Putin's ass. He's sexually pleasuring him."

Somehow kissing ass isn't in the same form of euphemism as sucking dick or fucking each other?
People say, "Kiss my ass!, "Suck my dick!", "Eat me", "Fuck you!", "Fuck me!" and a whole raft of others.

.

[NurseJackie]

34. Hey there, you!

[EffieBlack]

35. Sigh

[NurseJackie]

36. I know.

[heaven05]

16. BAM!!!!!!!!

Bette don't play...

[bdamomma]

18. love it

Bette. You always have a way with words!!!

[Blue_true]

25. Oooohhhh! Yow. But on target. nt

[Initech]

28. Someone call the burn ward because Trump just got burned!

[rwsanders]

29. She'd better not apologize!!!

[Nitram]

33. and Trump has the time...

[Az_lefty]

37. Perfect

[Lookatthecrow]

38. My eyes

Hmm. Odd I thought that this was in reference to Putin hooking Trump up in the past. (Possible Sex tapes, peeing etc). Funny not anything else.

[marble falls]

40. I disagree. Its funny and doubly so because its true...

Vladimir Putin's Net Worth: Is He the World's Richest Man ...
They say money equals power, and Vladimir Putin has plenty of power of right now. But how much money does he have? He's not telling. Figuring out the Russian president's net worth has long been the holy grail of spooks and hacks around the world. But the personal wealth of Putin—a former KGB ...
[Search domain time.com] time.com/money/4641093/vladimir-putin-net-worth/



How Much Is Donald Trump Worth?

The president's net worth dropped $400 million on this year's Forbes 400 list.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a9162094/donald-trump-net-worth/

[Maynar]

41. Good.

[Behind the Aegis]

42. I love you Divine Ms. M

But this is wrong. I am surprised Bathhouse Bette would say this. I am not surprised how many let things like this get a "pass" and how the privileged feel the need to 'splain to us why we are wrong to be upset and find this homophobic.

[aidbo]

43. Love too laugh at homophobic jokes from people on 'my side'