Originally Posted by
Terry
I can't say as I ever held Betty White in the high esteem seemingly countless others did, just talking strictly from an entertainment level in personal terms.
Yeah, she had some cute lines and delivered them well on The Golden Girls...but I never considered her the star of the show.
Post-Golden Girls, and particularly the last twenty years of her life, it seemed like White was dragged out for countless cameos on various shows, and the sum total of those cameos was to have White talk dirty and everybody laughed at the old lady saying dirty things...but for me that novelty wore off quick and, frankly, I was way over Betty White seemingly long before many were in terms of whatever novelty value was derived from her "old lady says filthy things" cameos.
For the entertainers who worked with her it would be understandable that they would express sadness over her passing.
For those who never knew her from anything other than her tv work, it's a bit of a puzzle to me why they are taking to social media saying they are "devastated" at her "tragic" death.
She lived a pretty good life, and a long one. Doesn't sound too tragic to me. And how personally devastated can someone really be over a 99-year-old sitcom actress they never met? I mean, how many hardcore Betty White fans are really out there? My response to her death was a shoulder shrug and my immediate thought was that she lived a life better than most coupled with my longtime feeling that the sentiment so many have expressed over Betty White ("she's a national treasure", etc.) was way out of whack with what she did, career-wise.
I mean, I didn't feel the least bit sad that she passed away. I'm not coming from a "fuck Betty White, hope she rots in hell" place, but...I just didn't give a particular shit.
Am I just being a cunt about it? Is my lack of pronounced empathy for someone I never met whose life was of no particular value or interest to me a sign that I'm a sociopath?