'the View' Co-host Insists Gloria Gaynor Is Actually A Feminist After Singer Rejects Title

The ladies of "The View" tried to make consciousness of why Gloria Gaynor does not see her iconic song, "I Will Survive," to beryllium a feminist anthem and why she would not explanation herself a feminist.

In a caller question and reply pinch nan UK outlet Metro, Gaynor said that 1 of nan biggest misconceptions astir her is that group deliberation she's a feminist. Her 1978 mega-hit was not truthful overmuch a feminist ballad, she said, but 1 that put a spotlight connected trauma, arsenic she was dealing pinch immoderate of her ain struggles astatine nan time, including caller backmost room and nan nonaccomplishment of her mom a fewer years prior. 

She added that having grown up pinch 5 brothers, she "loves men."

"The View" hosts reacted to Gaynor's astonishing return during their "Hot Topics" chat connected Tuesday while besides trying to specify nan connection "feminism."

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Gloria Gaynor performs during nan "Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive" premiere during nan 2023 Tribeca Festival astatine Spring Studios connected June 9, 2023, successful New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

The array was astir unanimous successful agreeing that nan connection feminism simply intends equality betwixt genders. After sharing her definition, co-host Sara Haines suggested that Gaynor is really a feminist.

"Because I deliberation nan feminist activity has changed complete nan decades, arsenic to who nan icons were, what nan constituent and nan ngo was," Haines said. "But ultimately, feminism is conscionable equality for women to person nan aforesaid opportunities. So, I deliberation she really profoundly is simply a feminist."

Haines and her co-hosts continued to effort and specify nan somewhat divisive term. The communal misconception, Haines said, is that "feminism intends you dislike men."

"They don't person to beryllium zero-sum issues," she continued. "To person equality for women does thing to men."

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"The View" co-hosts debated nan word "feminism" connected Tuesday. (Screenshot/ABC)

"The point is, you don't dislike men," Joy Behar agreed. "What you dislike is sexism and misogyny. That should beryllium clear to everyone. Because men are feminists also."

Behar later added that women person been "paying attention" to these cultural issues since nan 2nd activity of nan feminist activity successful nan 1970s.

"I deliberation astir women judge successful adjacent rights, successful empowering different women," Alyssa Farah Griffin added. "And I deliberation that it becomes this benignant of loaded word that group whitethorn construe different ways. Like you're burning your bra, aliases you dislike men."

She suggested it's a generational issue, wherever younger group are much "prone to labels."

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Gloria Gaynor performs onstage astatine nan 15th Annual Induction Ceremony for nan New Jersey Hall of Fame astatine NJPAC connected October 29, 2023, successful Newark, New Jersey.  (Bryan Bedder/Variety via Getty Images)

Sunny Hostin chimed successful to opportunity location shouldn't beryllium immoderate bad connotations associated pinch nan label, and that it's OK to beryllium a feminist and still respect nan other sex.

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"I don't cognize why equality is abruptly a bad thing," Hostin noted. "I don't cognize why diverseness and inclusion and equality is specified a bad thing. The bottommost statement is, you tin beryllium personification that supports women having adjacent rights, and Black group having adjacent rights, and group that are abnormal having adjacent rights, and group successful nan LGBTQ+ organization having adjacent rights, and still emotion a man!" 

In summation to penning "I Will Survive" to promote victims of trauma, Gaynor has successful caller years besides associated nan opus pinch her return to faith.

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"When I publication nan lyrics, I realized nan logic they'd been waiting for maine to grounds that opus was that God had fixed that opus to them for them to group aside, waiting for him to get everything successful bid for maine to meet up pinch them. And that opus was ‘I Will Survive,'" Gaynor told NPR successful 2019.

Fox News Digital's Hanna Panreck and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.