“I regret using Dolly as the example for the point I was making in the article,” she told Yahoo! Entertainment Saturday. “As I wrote in the piece, I love her and think she does some incredible things for the world. We all make poor choices in how to frame things sometimes. This was one of those moments for me! Dolly is one of the few people who is beloved by all and who loves all. The world is lucky to have her.”
You don’t get to pretend that it was an error in framing your message. You meant what you said and the only thing you regret is the backlash. You picked on an angel and everyone else rightfully gave you shit for it.
“I used Dolly Parton’s name to gain infamy. I am glad that it happened, as I have been offered a one hour weekly show on NewsMax.”
The piece, titled “There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel,” […]
“Parton’s version of love, which includes condoning immoral sexual behavior (‘be who you are,’ she’s said), is unaligned with God’s vision for humanity,” Andersen writes.
This is not a “Sorry, I didn’t mean it that way, I just framed it wrong.” This person meant exactly what she said.
God’s vision for humanity
You know a religion is utter bullshit when its followers use phrases like this.
God’s vision for humanity
Translation:
Our cult leaders’ vision for humanity
Its always weird how people can be so conceited to think that “God’s vision for humanity” perfectly aligns with “the way I want things to be done”
When you have no disagreements with god, then you are absolutely full of shit.
They don’t even follow their own religion. Christianity is about being nice and kind to people. Which seems somewhat incompatible with these peoples world views. Of course it was also incompatible with the whole religious crusade thing, so perhaps it’s not surprising that they still think like this.
It’s generally the atheists who know more about their religion than the religious.
If all or even most of Christianity’s followers were actually kind, generous people, it would be harder to criticize, but it’s so blatantly just another hateful cult like the rest of them.
I’m an atheist, but I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic high school. People like this honestly amaze me. If there’s one message that’s repeated over and over in the new testament, it’s “love everyone, regardless of anything about them, and treat them with kindness.” People like this are somehow unashamed to say “Loving everyone is wrong because it condones sinful behavior.” And so many will nod their heads with that.
I’m happy to see that when they use a person like Dolly, who actually lives the values, as an example of what they mean, people will say “Hey, wait a minute…”
That’s not an apology.
It’s only an apology as far as ‘I regret the blowback’. essentially they are only sorry to themself for doing a dumb dumb. Not to Dolly. And not to LBGTQ
That’s not an apology.
It’s a “sorry I got busted” statement.
Anyone else notice how often the party who won’t shut the fuck up about “personal responsibility” whenever social services and such are discussed accepts absolutely zero “personal responsibility” when they are the ones who need to display some?
It seems to be a universal across countries and cultures. Those who spend their entire time telling everyone else how to behave are never able to behave themselves. Perhaps it’s simply that everyone with any brains isn’t stupid enough to say that sort of thing. At least in a public forum.
The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn’t look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:
Oh, boy–they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!
And that thought had a brother: “There are right people to lynch.” Who? People not well connected. So it goes.
Slaughterhouse 5 is a great novel. I haven’t read it in a long time. Maybe time for a re-read.
Good luck getting America to hate a blonde blue eyed white woman with fake titties. On top of supplying kids with books, donating her money to various charities, and taking the Dixie out of Dixie stampede (because fuck the confederacy) you’d have a harder time convincing ppl to hate oxygen
They ain’t fake, son.
[When being asked if she would be riding one of the new rides at her park ~10 yrs ago] “Oh goodness no, if I got on there parts of me would start flyin’ off!”
She’s plenty light natured about it.
She maybe talking about her hair you know.
So coy and clever, that’s a great answer without revealing anything while still answering the question. No wonder everyone adores her.
Idk, she won’t let me confirm that.
They’re as real as her hair.
In an interview, she was asked how long it takes to do her hair and she said “Oh I don’t know, I’m not there!” 🤣
I read some article awhile ago about how she is fiercely protective of her private life and of her husband’s private life, too, but they both still manage to go out in public and have a normal life. IIRC, the article even mentioned that can just walk down the street of her hometown in normal clothes and doesn’t get recognized.
You don’t need voluminous boobs if you can squish ‘em in the right ways and get them to stay held there. (Witnessed with my own eyes from a friend - similar bra, different cup/band sizes, very different profile.) I would not be the least bit surprised to learn she uses the same tricks, plus the wigs and makeup to keep her personal/private life separate.
Don’t forget the checks she cut to every single family affected by the Gatlinburg wildfires a few years ago. $10K PER FAMILY.
I don’t know her personally but it seems like Dolly is the type of person that any true christian would strive to emulate.
These people would put Jesus on trial. Of course they’re attacking Dolly.
Since Jesus would love all the people they hate, yes they would.
Note that the writer did not apologize for what she said. She only apologized for using Dolly Parton as an example of someone who is “unaligned with God’s vision for humanity”. You know, because she doesn’t tell queer people that they are going to hell just for existing.
“I’m sorry I angered a popular singers fan base with my hateful rhetoric.”
“I’m sorry you/they feel that way”
Anybody talkin’ bad about Dolly gets a good ol’ fashioned ass whoopin’. She’s a national treasure on the level of Mr. Rogers.
Imagine if they had a kid, iirc Mr Rogers was a singer on the side too.
He had a bachelor’s degree in Music, and was constantly singing songs on his show, so that isn’t much of a surprise.
Ericka, this is what we call a fuck around and find out situation. Dolly Parton is an international treasure; her consistency of standing on principles regarding inclusivity and her open-minded mentality has always been there. “9 To 5” has to be the most popular pro-union song ever made! Cry mad about it more
We are all here waiting for Dolly to grow old enough to become the president
She’s been asked before.
Her answer is “hell no”
She’s 78. I think that makes her old enough by even the snarkiest standards.
Yeah… it was a joke on the age of presidential nominees and politicians in general in the US, not so much an actual suggestion
I think it’s like retirement age, it just goes up the more time passes. By 2040 you’ll actually have to have died and been resurrected by a necromancer before you’re allowing the job.
Watch out, Mitch is going to be mad about you giving away his secrets
I used to be dead.
I still am. But I used to be too.
Oh, sorry… Wrong Mitch…
Genius! I’m totally gonna (try to remember to) steal that and use it the next appropriate time.
I’d say me too, but both of us know that’s not happening…
She will never be that “old.” She has the heart, soul, and energy of a 30 year old.
Dolly Parton is a national treasure
It’s Dolly Parton’s America, that writer just happens to live in it.
Dolly is a national treasure
I don’t really see how it didn’t end well for the writer, just based on this article. Am I missing something besides like four tweets?
It apparently sparked a Twitter shit storm that took over the homophobic bigot’s life and forced them to make their Twitter account private.
Well-deserved, of course.
Enough of a twitter backlash that she issued a public apology, as insincere (bs) as it was.
Strangely, the quote she used had Dolly comparing gays to drunks and drug addicts - which sounds more like it would fit in with a pro-LGBTQ+ writers attack on Dolly. Did she think “oh, Dolly is going soft, gays are much worse than drunks and addicts!”
Yeah, it’s a unfortunate framing, but in the context of the interview, Dolly was discussing generally her support for the LGBTQ+ community. She eventually comes back around to a live-and-let-live philosophy, but her comparison belies a troubling foundational belief system.
You stay away from my Dolly.
You don’t attack Dolly like that.
Same holds true for anyone who attacks that actual living saint.
