Posted on 03/12/2019 2:48:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
Another day, another celebrity going off the deep end on Twitter.
Zachary Leeman reports that "Actress and Democrat activist Alyssa Milano sent out what was arguably the most bizarre tweet on International Women’s Day." Bizarre? Sure. But let's not forget "nonsensical," and for those who are concerned with such matters, "valor-stealing from the genuinely intersectional."
That's a thing, or at least it is now.
The former Charmed star tweeted, in full, "I’m trans. I’m a person of color. I’m an immigrant. I’m a lesbian. I’m a gay man. I’m the disabled. I’m everything. And so are you, Kirk. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after."
I suspect some will find it more easily than others.
It shouldn't require saying, but Milano is not actually the six-way winner of the Intersectional Victimhood Olympics. She's an extremely attractive woman with a successful career in an industry more cutthroat than most. If Milano has felt the Boot of Oppression at any time in the last 20 years, it was probably Gucci and she was probably wearing it.
I'm just old enough to remember when actors, at least the most-loved ones, were entertainers. That is, they had a public persona which conformed to their on-screen presence, and they maintained that persona 100% while in public.
Cary Grant never stopped being Archibald Alec Leach in private, but he was always Cary Grant on the screen, big or small. Johnny Carson was a cold, shy man in real life, but five nights a week on The Tonight Show, he was unflappable and boisterously, boyishly charming. Frank Sinatra was, in Moe Greene's famous phrasing, banging cocktail waitresses two at a time, but on stage, he was the world's foremost interpreter of romantic love songs.
I could go on, but you get the idea: Entertainers always tried to appear larger than life, even when they weren't.
Today's actors, by and large, are not entertainers. They still seem larger than life in their movies and TV shows, but after-hours they whip out their phones and pull up Twitter to make very public demonstrations of what small, really very tiny people they are.
Perhaps this is more honest than how the stars of old behaved, but for audiences, it's a lot less fun.
I loved her in the Kavanaugh hearings. Sitting there smugly while she and the left were beaten down by the something they’re not used to hearing: The Truth.
Apology not accepted. She must lose everything. Everything! And shut her yap for ever.
She is a nutcase, for sure..........................
Be a shame when Mr. Lin Wood gets around to her.
A whaaaat?
The more(leftist)manure you spread the more(roles)$$$ you get fed.
Huck Follywood
She’s nuts, Jim.
“Alyssa Milano Apologizes for Claiming to Be a Trans Gay Disabled Immigrant Lesbian of Color”
No need to apologize. Who hasn’t done it.
I once wanted to marry her. /sarc. Glad I didn’t. She’s an airhead and has an inflated view of her “self-importance”.
I think that LAZ wouldn’t hit on her, even if she had a bag over her empty head, or would he. Depends on whether he likes “bag ladies”.
So she isn’t Muslim then?
You said “inflated”! Nudge nudge, wink wink!
“I’m just old enough to remember when actors, at least the most-loved ones, were entertainers. That is, they had a public persona which conformed to their on-screen presence, and they maintained that persona 100% while in public.”
FWIW, Charlie Sheen did his best to still conform to that ideal, although I wonder now how much Chuck Lorre encouraged it.
Ha! That would be hilarious if the left started attacking her for who she left out! In this insane world I wouldn’t be surprised.
I have no particular use for Alyssa Milano or her politics, but I think she is getting a bum rap here. She was using an old rhetorical device. Remember “We are Charlie Hebdo”? Same thing. “They came for the X, and I didn’t stand up”. Same thing. She was not claiming she literally was a member of any of the groups she named, but she was virtue signalling her solidarity with everybody who has ever been given a hard time. I don’t agree with the “virtue” she was signalling, but that’s all it was. The other side parses anything we say to put us in the worst possible light. I’m not saying we should turn the other cheek, but imitating their mindless attack tactics is not helpful in this particular case IMO.
I completely agree. But the irony lies in the left being hoisted on their own petard.
Can she be charged with a hate crime? (liberal logic).
When soapbox virtue signalling backfires.
feckless frunt with a bra size IQ that just doesn't know how to keep it's holster shut...
She’s just identifying as an “Idiot American”. Totally in the rule book.
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