I knew it!

Rosie quit The View!

I really did know Rosie was going to do something passive aggressive after Elizabeth stood up to her. I told a friend, after the stuff hit the fan between her and Elizabeth, that she wouldn't be on the air the next day - she'd call in sick or something. Sure enough, she did take off, for her "wife's" birthday - as Barbara said, covering for her. I'd say sweet little Elizabeth can hold her own, huh? She won the cat fight. (Little sweeties have a tough side, they just don't bully people.)

Yes, I will admit it - Rosie is a bully. We all went to school with her type; loud mouthed, tom-boy. Kind of homely and fat. They liked to pick on the femme girls who were smarter and prettier than themselves. With dykes, that attitude doesn't go away - they channel it by becoming bull-dykes. Rosey femmes up for TV, but she's a beer joint lesbian, to be sure.

I kind of feel sorry for her. She demonstrates, by her aggressive and argumentative behavior how utterly unhappy she is. She transfers all this onto whatever issue happens to piss her off at the moment. Getting "married" and having kids didn't help much - oh, maybe for awhile, but she's on some good anti-depressants - and I think she drinks. Success doesn't make any difference for her, although she uses her money for various charities, even that doesn't make her happy. She's an angry woman.

Was it her mom dying when she was young? Was she abused in some way? Or was it she just didn't fit in with her peer group? Who knows, but that anger simply indicates some very deep wound. And yes, as one blogger put it she is jealous of Elizabeth, the pretty girl, all pregnant, in a wonderful normal marriage, invited to the White House, and lunch with the Queen. I believe Rosie always wanted something like that. I'm pretty sure, deep down, most gays do as well, to some degree - that being a normal, love-filled life.

For some gays, accepting them as they are will probably never really make them happy, even if they get everything they want. I believe they know this deep down. There is always that wound in their soul, that hole, in spite of which, even if they got all they think they want and need, will never be filled; there is a sorrow that will never be assuaged. No matter how normal they try to be, homosexuality will never be normative. This fact alone is what should move us to compassion - not pity - but rather a deeper understanding of that interior suffering.

Anyway - good for Elizabeth. I've now changed my opinion about her, I believe she may have spoken for many normal American women that day, and a tyrant backed down. (Maybe Elizabeth should be negotiating with some of our Nation's enemies.)

I still like Rosie though - it's fun to see someone stir the pot like she does. (She's still the nicest dyke I've ever met.) Just watch however - she will be going into rehab next.