JANE Fonda say “cunt” on the TV. You know you’re old when you can swear in public. Or an adolescent.
Althouse says: She’s got herself in the news again. You’ve got to give that woman credit for finding a way — one way or another — to make herself newsworthy decade after decade. The lady is 70. She’s some kind of media genius, right?
A video, which is NSFW:
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February 19th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
how would jane have know, it’s not like her husband owns a network or anything
February 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
takes one to know one
February 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
CANT. (no apostrophes)
The REAL dirty word. Accept no substitute.
Pity she didn’t say “Bush”.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I just did the monologue last night - I was one of the actors. What is the big deal? My God. Like little kids are even going to WATCH the show, much less pay attention. Besides, it’s rarely used, unlike f*ck or b*tch - kids wouldn’t even pick up that it was a ‘bad’ word. Which, it really isn’t.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
People: Get a life! With all that is on TV now, this is nothing.
February 17th, 2008 at 5:19 am
cmon, kids, saying cunt is ALWAYS funny. always.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:12 am
WOW what a rumour!!!
In the Netherlands is that very normal that you cunt on TV!
I had always so much admiration and respect for American people and for America but that is turned 180 degrees now.
What stupid all this for a little innocent word!!!
What was meant not even badly or mean.
For all people who run themselves appoint you are all stupid and CUNT people!!!
Jane Fonda let the people talk this bullshit they are sad!!
I and much orther people looks further than they nose and thats counts!
Peter
February 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Oh get over it. Jane Fonda is a goddess. She is a powerful woman who has always spoken her mind. She was speaking in the context of a great long running play and cunt happens to be one of the acts. Rock on Jane Fonda.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
It would have been seriously newsworthy if someone’s cunt had said ‘Jane Fonda’.
Now that’s entertainment!
February 16th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
she (fonda) is a sad, pathetic, mess, and does nothing to bring respect to women.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Big deal. Oh, I forgot, it was on morning television in America. Big deal.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
i think it’s funny as hell how one word can raise so much stink. i heard bill oreilly pissing about last night and a woman on there actually said it’s different when a man says it than when a woman says it. our society is sally fields. i guess i should have said “sybil” we are so gross with what we want to control about other people. the lady on the factor said that when a man says “cunt” it meant the same as the act of rape. the people they will allow to be on television! i don’t use the word often but it is my word of the day for awhile now!
relaw1304
February 16th, 2008 at 9:49 am
If she’d said growler there would have been no problem.
In the context of her interview I can see nothing wrong with what she said, other than it’s on a US TV show. It’s the interviewers fault for venturing down that path.
February 16th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Big deal!
And she had to wait the age of 70.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Would there have been such an uproar if she had used the word cock in public? I doubt it. Both “c” words can be and are used in sexual talk between adults; yet, cunt is a word one hears used more in speaking crudely in degrading women by men who are a far cry from gentlemen. I’ve seen it used and in print several times on a certain site in speaking crudely and no one seemed to protest in outrage nor the word deleted. I think the word is very crude. But is it the double standard - a man can use it so speak crudely about a woman but a woman can’t use it in talking about the play where the word is used?
February 16th, 2008 at 4:43 am
People lighten up! Have you all listened to the way people talk now days? I am sorry but curse words are the norm for the average person….at least in my world.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Well, I look at it this way…She really knew what she was doing when she used that word, and so she knew she would be on the headlines for using it. Obviously, she doesn’t care how she is making the headlines, and she doesn’t care if she is infamous instead of famous. So, she really just doesn’t care what comes out her mouth. It is not like she has to worry about having kids watching that will repeat it, or she doesn’t have to pay any fine the TV network will receive. No, she doesn’t even have to worry about who she is not impressing. She just hasn’t a conscience, because she has never been in a position of exercising a conscience.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:53 am
I happen to like Jane Fonda and think she made a mistake. I mean look what they were discussing. People just talk trashy these days
February 16th, 2008 at 2:48 am
After reading her autobiography a couple of years ago, I believe Jane Fonda is a remarkable, strong woman who does a lot of good for others. She just forgot the boundaries of acceptable language on television, which is changing all the time. Once you couldn’t use the word ‘pregnant’ on tv, now we can say vagina, but cunt goes too far? Please! It was in the context of the discussion at hand, the title of one of the monologues in the play ‘The Vagina Monologues.’
This week, on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central in the US, Stephen Colbert licked a meteor and an astrophysicist told him that that was the oldest thing his tongue has ever touched. Colbert responded, no, I don’t think so–I’ve had Jane Fonda on my show (paraphrase).
February 16th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Be grateful she said it instead of showing it.
February 16th, 2008 at 1:12 am
She is disgusting !!