Betty White: Great Sluts of History
Start the outrage now, because however rude or crude her language or roles may be, nobody would openly call Betty White a slut. Those twinkling blue eyes, those dimples, that air of innocence… From adorable young woman to everybody’s favorite grandmother, right?
As noted below, “sluts” are generally women who are considered “too” powerful, “too” sexual, and/or “too” outspoken.
And people might think those things about Ms. White, but ain’t nobody gonna take her on.
Once upon a time, Betty Marion White was a baby (January 17, 1922), and a wanna-be writer who discovered a love of performing and never looked back.
Her first television gig came on an experimental Los Angeles channel in 1939, three months after her high school graduation. In the 1940’s she was on radio, and in 1949 she became co-host of a daily live variety show, Hollywood on Television, with Al Jarvis.
In 1952 after he left the show, Betty continued to host it, solo. This show ran six days a week, 5 1/2 hours a day, all live, all ad-libbed. She also sang several songs during each show. Later she hosted her own talk show, The Betty White Show, in 1954, and formed her own production company, at a time when women’s roles were almost exclusively limited to being in front of the camera (and not too many of those).
