So Rosie’s gone from The View. Surprisingly enough, given the amount of media coverage of this event, my world has changed not at all.
But like Chloe “Chompers” McTeeth, The Amazin’ Castratin’ Whore, Rosie just doesn’t know when to shut her mouth.
Towleroad pointed out this little snippet of “comedy” from Hurricane Rosie, currently on the road with Cyndi Lauper’s True Color’s Tour (someone who I have far more respect for): I got to tell you, I’ve been hanging around with those heteros for a full year and it’s not fun! Turn around one minute and they’ll stab you in the back with a high heel. They will.
Wow, so maybe you don’t get along with Hassleblech and now have issues with Babs. What abotu Joy, though? Joy had your back, Rosie. Too bad you seem to have taken up the same mannerisms as “those heteros”, except you probably had to settle for beating the hell out of Joy with your Birkenstock.
The thing, though, is that there has to be this identification of them as “heteros”. Does this mean Barbara would be in her rights to say, “Since day one that pushy dyke has been looking for a fight and was willing to manufacture it if that’s what it took?”
Of course, a certain segment of the gay community can’t claim, “Jeeze, it’s just a joke,” fast enough. I would agree, except no one really knows which way Hurricane Rosie is blowing nowadays.
Apparently it’s okay to make those types of broad jokes-pun intended-when you’re making them about straight women? Well, straight women and the Chinese.
If saying women are basically backstabbing, two-faced liars based on the virtue of their heterosexuality is comedy genius, then I guess I just don’t have a sense of humor anymore whenever Hurricane Rosie washes on shore.
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QJ: I was a little put off by that joke as well, and — FYI — it didn’t get much of a reaction from the crowd at the DC show. The anti-Trump stuff got much more play. But, at the same time, it’s important to remember that Rosie is a comedian, and was actively doing stand-up when she made that joke. “Stabbed in the back with a high heel” is a punchline — putting the same words in Barbara Walters’ mouth isn’t really analogous, because it’s not her job to make outrageous jokes — while wearing bright yellow Crocs.
On the ride home from the show, my date and I discussed the Rosie set — bottom line, she’s going through an angry period which probably started in late 2006 … and will hopefully move out of soon, for her own sake. What probably didn’t get reported on Towleroad is her long, long (long!) declaration of love and adoration for Cyndi Lauper — a hetero woman who, we presume, has never stabbed Rosie in the back with a high heel.
True, RS, I should probably cut her some slack, but she’s blurring the lines and that’s what I object to. One never knows when she’s a comedian and when she’s trying to be an intellectual or even when she’s just trying to get the media’s attention.
Frankly, I’m tired of trying to figure it out, so I’ve promoted/demoted her in my mind to the status of “celebrity”. That means anything she says at any time in a public venue is fair game for whatever interpretation one wishes to apply.
I used to like Rosie and when she came out I thought, “Oh, good, she’ll be a positive image for the gay and lesbian community, both internally and externally.” But she went to Hurricane Rosie or AngeRosie or whatever moniker one prefers so quickly that it caused me to mistrust my initial impressions of her. Was all that rage just seething under the surface for the first part of her career and, if so, then who’s she to talk about hypocrisy or not being true to oneself?
I hope someday the nice, fun, Koosh-throwing Rosie comes back and does what she does best, making people laugh, but right now we’re stuck with BadDadRosie, bitter and disillusioned with opinions on everything but not enough sense to either back them up or shut it up. Thanks, though, for the perspective on the Rosie comments. You’re right, it wasn’t covered which leads me to think there’s still hope, just that she’s not ready to let go of a lot of anger issues.
And congrats on the date. I’m envious. It’s nice, though, how you keep peppering the blogosphere with mentions of The Gentleman Suitor or Mr. Bacon and Eggs, I believe you called him. Sounds like something’s cooking up!
I didn’t see it, so have nothing to offer regarding that, but was just thinking Rosie is human like the rest of us, why should there be an expectation that she shouldn’t show that? Lord knows there have been phases in my life where i’ve been bitter or angry — those times have been brought on by some very fucked up situations. A couple of times I did not bounce back the next day or week. I can’t imagine going through some of life’s hard times in the public eye, with folks pulling out the disapproval card on human reactions or ways of being. Anger and bitterness isn’t “good”, but hey, shit happens. Personally I like Rosie. I don’t like or agree with everything she says and does, but hey, does she have to be 100% the way I’d like her to be? She’s making it through just like the rest of us, and is doing more than a lot of folks are. So she’s in hurricane mode right now. OK. we’ve all been there, I guess is all I’m saying.
QJ: Understood, but for those at the show, she was clearly in stand-up mode. Those who heard it first-hand could have noted that; she didn’t say this in an interview somewhere — it was clearly part of her act. Kathy Griffin once said, “I love Oprah but I have to make fun of her because she thinks she’s Jesus.” Back when Joan Rivers was funny (there actually was a time), she had a slew of jokes about how ugly Prince Charles was, how fat Elizabeth Taylor was, how stupid Bo Derek was, etc. It’s what comedians do.
My first hunch whenever I hear Rosie being quoted is to assume that her words have been taken completely out of context, which is what her critics love to do above all else.