She is very emphatic about young people – about “passing the baton”, as she puts it – and acting as a figurehead to inspire and amuse. Carter is blithely uninterested in concealing how the sausage is made, not least because it would deny credit to her collaborators. The funny thing about this is that, for a great many celebrities, the fear of voicing an opinion about politics is secondary to the fear of admitting to having help with the message. “If not now, when, in my life and career?” she says. That makes for a lot of fun.” It also allows Carter to feel sufficiently emboldened to wade in to the political debate. “They lend their ideas, and expertise, and voices, and we are each other’s cheerleaders.
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“They are free to voice their own opinions, and they do,” she says.
“They get my voice, and my strengths and my weaknesses, and my sense of humor.” It’s in the context of this group that ideas are discussed, angles worked, jokes rehearsed and Carter’s message honed for the public domain. She tells me that a team of young women and “a couple of very cute guys” – mostly under 30, and led by Sabrina Cartan, a media strategist – have been responsible for distilling and presenting her online persona. Prove it! Prove I’m not pregnant now!” This, the textbook I-am-Spartacus move, seems a fittingly jaunty suggestion coming from Carter.Īlthough the politics is all hers, Carter has help with the wording of her tweets. “If we all got to together in state where they are going to arrest anyone who admits to having an abortion – and said, ‘Lock me up’? I just think we should all race to the state, I don’t care how old you are!” The practical side is what to do about it. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Feature Or that IVF you’re capable of murder or something. That you would have to explain a D&C, that a stranger, a policeman, might come to your house to say you had a procedure. “I don’t think I’ve ever been so speechless. “I am so stunned I haven’t really spoken out about my feelings,” says Carter. Carter has always been political – “give me something to march about!” she says, and supported Hillary Clinton, who she counts as a friend, in her run for president. Nowhere has the actor been more strident or effective than in her opposition to the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. Check it out, guys: Wonder Woman has engaged with the discourse.
When, a few months ago, Carter started tweeting about abortion rights, got up in arms about Florida’s “don’t say gay” laws and had a cheeky back and forth with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gen X keeled over at the sheer deliciousness of it all. She is warm and wry, using her odd but powerful standing in the memories of millions of Americans to have a word about what’s going on. Plenty of celebrities spout off about politics, but in the wake of the overturn of Roe v Wade, Carter’s Twitter feed has broken through. More pressing is the renaissance she’s enjoying on social media.
It’s happening in the courts and legislatures around this country.- Lynda Carter July 5, 2022 Leave them alone and focus on the real war on women. They face so much violence and scrutiny as is. I cannot think of anything that helps women’s rights less than pinning the blame on trans women.
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