Jane Fonda: you can't say that on television
Filed under: Videos, Celebrities with Style
Jane Fonda used some colorful language on the this morning's Today Show. I sure hope they did some serious clearance work to make sure that Jane could drop the "C" word on television. Otherwise, the FCC is going to have to raid their studios and put Matt Lauer in a head lock. Of all the four letter words -- and there are some juicy ones out there -- c*nt is on the short list of words I try to forget, so I never accidentally say it on national TV.
Seriously though, how is it that Janet Jackson's partially covered boob puts the FCC in an uproar and Jane Fonda gets to drop a C-bomb on the Today Show? Don't tell me Fonda gets a pass because she's referencing the Vagina Monolouges. This is not "high art" people, this is the Today Show with Meredith Vieira -- and on Valentines Day no less!? I almost choked on my Cheerios when I saw it.
Seriously though, how is it that Janet Jackson's partially covered boob puts the FCC in an uproar and Jane Fonda gets to drop a C-bomb on the Today Show? Don't tell me Fonda gets a pass because she's referencing the Vagina Monolouges. This is not "high art" people, this is the Today Show with Meredith Vieira -- and on Valentines Day no less!? I almost choked on my Cheerios when I saw it.
[via PerezHilton]
Larry Kelley 2-14-2008 @ 4:20PM
In Amherst, Massachusetts we have a HIGH SCHOOL that is performing 'The Vagina Monologues' tomorrow night. And school officials do not plan to issue an apology after a teen-ager uses the C-word. Only in Amherst!
http://www.onlyintherepublicofamherst.blogspot.com/
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KT 2-16-2008 @ 3:41PM
I do not believe an apology is needed. This is just a word, period! What religious fundamentalists in our society choose to connote to a word is their business, not ours. You people can use any means you want to make this word, CUNT, a bad word. If I choose to use the word CUNT, I can and will. I am not a bad person for using it. I don't feel dirty because I used it. I don't feel that I will burn in hell because of using the word CUNT. Like any other word in any language, it is meant to be used accordingly.
Like the great philosopher Voltaire has said:
"Use, do not abuse, neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."
and finally, IMHO, this is the best:
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
In other words, it is our God given right to use what was given to us. If some sectors of society have a problem with free speech, then shut the hell up, don't use it and get over it. Let the rest of us speak how and when we choose. There is a time and place for everything and this word fits into it's credited time and place.
Thanks for reading my rant.