Roseanne!! I expected more from you!

In the 90's i was a huge fan of the American sitcom "Roseanne", I had every episode on tape and watched them constantly, loving the down to earth humour and quick one liners. The show was groundbreaking in many ways, It portrayed a realistic view of an American working class family and covered issues such as teenage sex, domestic violence, death and sexuality. The shows leading star - Roseanne Barr was outspoken and unapologetic and for this i truly admired her.

For the last 10 years Roseanne Barr has faded away but now she is back doing stand up comedy and again being outspoken but i think she may need to pick her battles more carefully. This week she has been quoted as saying

"Never once in my 54 years have I ever once heard a gay or lesbian person who's politically active say one thing about anything that was not about them. They don't care about minimum wage, they don't care about any other group other than their own self because you know, some people say being gay and lesbian is a totally narcissistic thing and sometimes I wonder. I've never heard any of them say anything except for 'Accept me 'because I'm gay"

Roseanne has since apologised saying that her statement was taken out of context and what she meant to say was

"everybody needs to unite right now, and step outside of their own neighbourhoods, groups, races and classes to stop Bush's war on our country and our people"

She has also added a huge apology to the gays. Girlfriend just needs to think a bit more before opening her mouth but i guess we can all be guilty of that. Its just that we dont have our words plastered on the news around the world - thank god!

xx