# Bridget Loves Bridget (Meredith Baxter comes out) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704 "2009-12-02T14:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/41 "2009-12-04T07:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Kelly McGillis tells a similar story, she went through two failed marriages and affairs with both men and women before and after before she was able to look at herself in the mirror and say “I’m a lesbian.” Yup. Sexuality is just such a complex confsuing thing. Heck…even at 30 I’m still not sure if I’m full on lesbian or bi. Even the girl in my high school class who was so screaming gay that everyone in the class knew she was gay back in second grade had a tough time figuring out she was gay. The only person I know who didn’t have a problem with same sex attraction, is my current girlfriend…and she was all confused a few years ago when she realized she liked guys too…LOL ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/42 "2009-12-04T08:07:17Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > How do you find out that late in life that you’re a lesbian? She says she wasn’t ‘living a lie’, but I have a hard time believing she wasn’t in deep denial and to me that’s ‘living a lie’. Bisexual? ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/43 "2009-12-04T16:25:17Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Gotta admit I wouldn’t have seen this coming in a million years. Good for her. On the other hand, I suspected/expected/detected it a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/44 "2009-12-04T17:07:58Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > And yet I suspect that anyone suggesting that “homosexuality is a choice” will still be quickly tarred and feathered around here. As a gay man I agree one sexual’s orientation is NOT a choice. But a sex act does not a homosexual make nor does it make a straight man. I could have sex with women all I want, but I still wouldn’t be straight. I would be a gay man having sex with women. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/45 "2009-12-04T17:09:33Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Meredith sure was pretty. Did you notice as each year went by her outward appearence was gettig more and more “butch,” simlar to Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneress ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/46 "2009-12-04T17:53:56Z")
I notice that of a lot of post-menopausal women. (But Ellen DeGeneres does not look “butch” to me.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/47 "2009-12-04T18:05:43Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Did you notice as each year went by her outward appearence was gettig more and more “butch,” simlar to Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneress Older people of both sexes tend to be somewhat more androgynous than younger people. Look at some really elderly people, and often you really can’t tell who is what. And this is true of pre-pubescent kids as well. Our biology exaggerates our masculinity/femininity during the years when we need it most. The circle of life. ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/48 "2009-12-05T00:34:37Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Did you notice as each year went by her outward appearence was gettig more and more “butch,” simlar to Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneress Have you ever seen year-by-year photos of **Jamie Lee Curtis**??? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704/49 "2009-12-05T13:54:47Z")
I recall seeing Meredith Baxter in Family Ties. I always thought she was cute, but not all that sexy. Then one night I watched the Breast Cancer movie she made. There’s a scene in there that nearly knocked me off the sofa. Who knew Mrs. Keaton was stacked? 🆒 The way Meredith dresses you’d never suspect she’s related to Dolly Parton. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-loves-bridget-meredith-baxter-comes-out/519704.md?page=2)