Roseanne Barr just announced that she’s queer via YouTube. But before you start cringing about another right-wing nutter joining our community, we should probably take her unexpected coming out with a grain of salt.
In a surprisingly understated and short YouTube video (below), Barr said:
“Man, the word ‘fag’ is a really hateful word, isn’t it? Especially when it’s when it’s like one gay calling another gay guy that? Hoo! Have you ever been in the middle of one of them hate marriages? Hoo! It’s like, wait a minute, we’re not supposed to say that word. How come you’re saying that word? What?
“Oh, I just can’t say that word. Well, I can when I’m in the house, but I can’t say it outside the house. Okay, I get your rules. But it is a hateful word and we should get rid of it. Get rid of it being spoken.
“All that LGBTQ stuff, okay let me just be real, I put the Q in the LGBTQ. Okay, because I am queer as two motherfuckers. I’m queer, I’m alien, I don’t belong here with all these people. They makes no sense. They are very queer. That makes me queer, I guess. But I did put the Q in it. Bye!”
Here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/Wz8ghOLflWQ
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So it seems that Barr is just using the word “queer” to describe herself as “different from the mainstream” rather than to actually come out as LGBTQ. So put away the “Welcome to the family” cake.
Oh, Roseanne. Where do we start? The former sex worker and actress was known for presenting groundbreaking LGBTQ characters (including a young gender fluid character) on her eponymous sitcom. But then she got her show cancelled after comparing Obama administration senior adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
Related: Roseanne Barr Is Totally On Board With Getting The Drag Queen Treatment
Perhaps we should’ve expected her weird social media outbursts. In 2012, she made a transphobic comment about penises in women’s bathrooms. Sigh…
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DCguy
The headline is a bit misleading.
The reality of this is, it’s just another right winger crying because they can’t use a bigoted slur against LGBTQ people, but we can use it on each other. It is LITERALLY the same lament you hear over and over on FOX News “Why can rappers use the “N” word but we can’t?!
Summary, right wingers REALLY REALLY Want to use bigoted or racist slurs against people and become enraged that they can’t anymore. Roseanne is just more of the same.
moose_keating
That sounds about right.
CABS2000
That’s it EXACTLY.
RIGay
She looks like a crazy cat lady. Please, Roseanne, don’t do us any favors.
mr guy
>So it seems that Barr is just using the word “q ueer” to describe herself as “different from the mainstream”
So, pretty much like how other colonising creepy heterosexual “nutters” (in your decidedly unwoke term) have glommed onto our community in recent years
lather
Yes yes yes. And all the others who want to be part of the cool kids now that it’s both rebellious and cool to be “queer” and go back to your safe life anytime you want.
funpitt412
Roseanne has been supportive of gay rights for a long time. In 1994, Rosanne Barr kissed Mariel Hemingway on her sit-com Rosanne. Rosanne fought with Network executives who wanted to cancel the episode.
DCguy
And now Roseanne supports a rabidly anti-LGBT political party and is lamenting that she can’t use a bigoted slur against us.
Glynn
So what, she kissed Mariel Hemmingway in 1994? Who (apart from you and me) knew who the hell Mariel Hemmingway was in 1994 (she was way past her ‘best by date’ in 1994). They were both courting the publicity (albeit in a pro Sapphic way) but they were thinking of themselves FIRST – jumping on a labia pink bandwagon. Oh how we whooped at the time!
No. Rosanne wasn’t and never will be L or G or B or T or Q. Every word she utters now is stacked with nastiness. So, until she can provide definitive proof that she is queer (I don’t know, maybe something like a picture of her eating raw vagina), she can just shut her nasty cake hole.
Creamsicle
People can change I the course of 25 years. She went from a comic to a crazy person. Have you seen the video this screengrab came from? She recorded that and posted it to Twitter thinking it would somehow help her case. All it got was a remix of her screaming “I thought the bitch was white.”
Durwood
Was she commenting from her nut farm?
QueerTruth
Why give her the mic?
bowlingbutch
Roseanne needing some attention? AGAIN? Stop giving her any type of a forum.
NCSilverBear
I think I agree, @bowlingbutch. It’s hard to like Roseanne when she acts out — like she’s suffering from BiPolar disorder, going off and on her meds. Not saying that’s factual. Just saying that, to me, that’s what I get from her bizarre, unpredictable behavior. I very much wish I could like her. But, she acts out in ways that are personally abhorrent — much like another famous personality who needs constant attention, be it good or bad.
Karrnal
Okay, the youngsters on the site won’t remember this, but whenever Roseanne’s around, I’m reminded of what George Burns used to say when wifey Gracie Allen made one of her absurdist comments: “Say goodnight, Gracie.” To which Gracie would graciously reply, “Goodnight, George.” Please, Roseanne, take George’s advice. Say goodnight.
And if you have no idea who George and Gracie are, head over to Youtube and catch up! You all need a little vaudeville in your lives.
Saps48
Gracie just said “Goodnight.”
Dragyn
LOVE George and Gracie! She was Irish, spoke the mother tongue fluently, and wore long sleeves throughout life due to a burn accident in young days. Se was so loved by George, he went to her grave at least weekly, and refused to wed again, wanting to rejoin his beloved Googie after he passed. True beautiful love story.
moose_keating
I think it went —
George: Say goodnight, Gracie.
Gracie: Goodnight, Gracie.
prarie pup
What is WRONG with her?
funpitt412
I love Roseanne and I walked away from the Democrat plantation in 2016. Let her talk, while we still have freedom of speech.
DCguy
Translation: The new anti_LGBT troll account loves the idea of people using bigoted slurs against LGBT people.
Oh, and sweetie, trying to jam a racist trope AND trying to pretend that saying the N word or F****t are freedom of speech? Wow, I thought the last batch of trolls were bad, but you’re HORRIBLE at this.
truthseeker
@DCguy
So queer is a slur now? You do realize this site is called Queerty, right?
Sounds like she was just trying to come across as comedic, similar to something Joan Rivers would say.
DCguy
@truthseeker
Awwwww, sweetie, it’s adorable that you’re hoping I didn’t sign back on and see this so I could point out that Roseanne was complaining she couldn’t use the word “F*G”.
Now why would you lie about the topic…oh…riiiiight, you’re an anti-LGBT troll who always defends bigots.
truthseeker
Oh look DCguy makes up lies about me again like he does everyone else.
“it is a hateful word and we should get rid of it. Get rid of it being spoken.”
Jon in Canada
Seriously Roseanne,
Just go away and take your delusional constructs with you.
Toodles.
Dragyn
This bleached freak has claimed to be bi, gay, and about everything, including human. Queer has more than one definition, with this, I feel queer as freaky fits.Lets eradicate it. The thing, not the word.
GayEGO
One of the dictionary definitions of queer is – “Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected”, and that could be Roseanne, she is a right winger nut!
IWantAFullBeard
Does it make you a queer if no one of the opposite sex would ever touch you with a ten foot pole?
s b
A grain of salt? Try a tablespoon.
TomG
Yes Roseanne, you ARE queer. Now can we deport you to another planet ? Or at least get you checked into a rubber room in a psychiatric hospital.
grethomory
she’s nuts…she even looks deranged