Feminists Go Nuts At Steve Martin For Calling Carrie Fisher “Beautiful”

If you pay your respects to someone by suggesting you first fell in love with their looks, then with their personality and talent, is that really so bad?

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Apparently, it is:

Steve Martin deleted the Tweet because of the response he got from ultra feminist wankers making out he’s a sexist:

Some people just have a way with words, and other people … oh … not have way. -Steve Martin

— Sherry Dyck (@ysocialmediaca) December 19, 2016

Remember Carrie Fisher for her talent, her feminism, her commentary on mental health — not for the way she looked https://t.co/R3eZqy6Ooh

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) December 28, 2016

Steve Martin's tweet about Carrie Fisher is extremely bad https://t.co/if7QV6Ow3b

— The Cut (@TheCut) December 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/814131132660912132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Here’s a pro tip for men in 2017 – if you think someone is beautiful, keep it to yourself. It’s basically a hate crime to comment on a woman’s appearance nowadays. Good thing there were other Twitter users about ready to call out the outrage police:

https://twitter.com/_Peter_Cook/status/813945972640333824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/BloatedCarcass/status/814115607587287041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Even Piers Morgan realised how ridiculous it was:

Feminism at its absolute worst.
How shameful to do this to a legend like @SteveMartinToGo, whose 'crime' was paying a woman a compliment. https://t.co/nec4DmmBqO

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 29, 2016

Meanwhile, this baked goods company also caught some backlash for their Carrie Fisher tribute Tweet: