This was on the radio this morning. People were getting really worked up about it:
Why the outrage? For a person in her position and her opportunities that seems not unbelievable.
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I don’t have any outrage - but the visual has me shuddering. Whoopi? eeewwwww!
Well, Whoopi is 52 years old, and was first married at age 18. So, with a period of 34 years to play with, that only needs 3 lovers every 2 years. Not an enoromous feat.
Wasn’t Ted Danson once one of Whoopi’s 50?
Yes.
I wonder if part of it is that she’s a woman. A man of the same age who made a similar claim would probably cause less of a to-do.
50?
That’s one hell of a bukkake episode. 
This just struck me:
Whoopi’s got fifty fingers and toes?
Guinan must be built much more differently than I thought!
Well, 50 lovers would be shockingly low for someone so long-lived…
I don’t wonder at all. Would I be shocked and disgusted to learn George Clooney had slept with 50 women? Not exactly. But I don’t really observe maximum outrage in the OP link. Sherri Shepherd and Elizabeth hasselsomething don’t count – one thinks the world is flat, the other thinks her husband never masturbates.
snerk
I was going to say that I didn’t really detect any OUTRAGE…but I haven’t seen the exchange, either, so I don’t know what kind of tone they really took. Plus I don’t know that there’s not some internet hubbub about it on conservative sites or somewhere like that.
Frankly, if they’re even this mildly shocked by Whoopi’s 50, god forbid they ever ask a gay man about that. Not that all or even most gay men necessarily go through a lot of lovers, but I have to admit that myself and most of the guys I know would definitely be able to log at least 100 in our lifetimes so far, and some far more than that (ahem). Admittedly, a lot of them weren’t exactly long-term deep relationships (or even as long as one-night stands, for that matter), but they happened.
The Outrage I reported, you’ll note in the OP, was on my local radio station. They seemed extremely upset by it, and called it gross. they seemed to have trouble coming to grips with the concept. I have no idea how they reacted on “The View”. But i also note that we’ve heard of male celebrities having outrageous numbers of sexual partners (I don’t know how many of them would qualify as “lovers”. depends upon whose definition, I guess.)
I misread your OP…I didn’t realize it was the radio personalities, specifically, that were getting worked up. Sorry!
Are you sure this was a reaction to a woman having 50 lovers or Whoopi Goldberg having 50 lovers?
Because one is kind of stupid, but the other I can kind of understand from a “I did not need to know how many people have knocked boots with Whoopi Goldberg” standpoint.
What’s the general tone on your local morning show?
Was it outrage that Goldberg has had 50 lovers, that she talked about it on TV, or shock that she was able to entice 50 different people?
'cause my initial reaction was “pfft. It’s not like she’s 20 years old.”
They weren’t clear about it, but I didn’t get the impression that they were alarmed because it was Whoopi goldberg, specifically, who had 50 lovers. they seemed upset that a woman had fifty lovers. At first they acted as if they couldn’t talk about it, even, and it wasn’t clear what they were talking about.
It’s a jokey, kidding-around show (Loren and Wally on WROR), but this didn’t seem to be a joke – some of them were clearly uncomfortable with the idea.
How stupid. The number of people someone has been with is ridiculously unimportant.
She was also using the points on her starburst nipple shields.
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I do think there are circumstances under which it might be alarming. Say for instance, my college roommate had been with 50 different people…during our freshman year - that would be cause for concern.
I do think that particular double standard continues to exist. A woman with more than ?? (don’t know what the magic number is 10? 20?) partners is a tramp, a man with 10 times that many is a hero. (Not to everyone…I know)