So, on Reddit (not a good place, I know), the most upvoted comment to a post saying “You get a call from a woman and it makes you angry. Who is she?” was “Ellen ‘Degenerate’”. (Their words, not mine). Since it was hugely upvoted, why is she so bad? All I know is that she is a talk show host and a lesbian.
A couple things I know of related to her talk show: 1) She kind of ‘showed her true colors’ by being snarky and mean-spirited ("haha, it’s all just fun") towards many a guest, even making some cry or weirdly putting them on the spot when talking about a traumatic thing in their lives; 2) She was seemingly revealed to be a toxic a-hole behind the scenes to her staff and others. This is evidently not unique at all among talk show hosts, but paired with #1, it kind of sunk her reputation, it seemed to me.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Depends on who you ask. The sorts of people who call her that are bigoted rightwingers, most famously Jerry Falwell. This animosity dates back to the 90s when she had a sitcom. She came out and the right wing lost its shit about it, and there’s still hate for her today. No surprise it got upvotes on reddit.
Independently of that, she’s evidently just plain mean to anyone she can get away with mistreating.