Jane Fonda drops the c-bomb on live TV
- added February 14, 2008
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- sajh
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I'm not up on the slang, so I had to read it to make sure the c-word was the same c-word I was thinking of. It was.
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does the c-word mean cosmetic surgery ?
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Jcrary -
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I do love me some Jane Fonda and this just makes me love her even more. Well not because she used the word but because she used it and could of cared less about it in the moment anyways...HA! Here is the actual clip from the Today Show of her using the "C" word.
Please note there is graphic language used in this clip, do not watch if you may be offended.-
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- woodywoodbeck
- 6 months ago
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I THOUGHT that's what she said this morningg....
JANE: I was asked to do a monologue called ___.
[Meredith cringes]-
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- kari_ickert
- 6 months ago
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- woodywoodbeck
- 6 months ago
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You have to love Jane..she's never been one to mince words...love it or hate it..it is what it is..real
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- Irisheyes1969
- 6 months ago
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From Access Hollywood: "'Let me say something about that word. The whole point of the play is to reclaim that word, and to make that word beautiful, and to make that word powerful, and not denigrating, and not ugly,' Eve [Ensler] added."
She's right, too. It's a terrible word, but that's because it's loaded; the monologue by Ensler attempts to strip the word of meaning. In a way, it's sort of powerful that Fonda said it so matter-of-fact on television -- and thanks to that YouTube clip, none of the three women recoiled or balked, from what I can see -- and for reasons I can't quite articulate, the word had absolutely no emotional impact on me when Fonda said it at all.
I know it's a word not yet meant for television, and sorry to the FCC, but Jane Fonda should not be made to apologize to anyone. -
i second jennatar... c#nt
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- jade_azul16
- 6 months ago
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Fantastic comment Jennatar - very articulate answer.
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It's all about context, when Jane was referring to it as the title of a monologue, it didn't have any impact since it was just a matter of fact.
I'm not sure how Eve Ensler intended to reclaim the word in other uses as the subject of a monologue, I tend to doubt that would work out so well.
But in the context Jane used it in, I don't think she had anything to apologize for -
Whatever...
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why apologize?!! She used the word in a context that was appropriate, they were talking about vaginas, fer fucks sake!
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i agree that no apology is necessary and if you have seen the vagina monologs and this in particular you can see how the word is reclaimed!
how crazy everyone gets about a word when used in a completely nonthreatening way. -
Sorry I am late coming in on this conversation but for what its worth I wholeheartedly agree with all those who said that no apology is required.
People need to get over this Victorian sexual attitudes bullshit already and grow up. We are living in the 21st century already. It's time to get rid of all the taboos and let freedom be freedom. -
She shouldn't have to apologise. Maybe the Today Show should apologise for they're shitty censors, lol. I mean, hello, it's live television and you asked Jane fuckin Fonda (whom I love) for an interview about vaginas! If you haven't seen the piece about the "c-word", you should because it's brilliant. I totally agree that it should be reclaimed and should not be offensive at all. Jane Fonda has nothing to apologise for. Maybe the American audience should apologise for being scared of a word. It's the 21st century now. Our censorship should not have to be this strict.
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So, Jane Fonda said c**nt on national television.
Isn't being able to say c**nt, pussy, slit, slice of heaven about our vaginas what V-Day is all about anyway?
The name of the portal of life through which most humans are born should be honored, not censored. Don't we honor men's sexual organ with obelisk's like the Washington Monument?
Maybe if we honored women more as the source and nurturers of life, there'd be less violence.
What is obscene is war.
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Good for Jane Fonda! When is America going to grow up? If only folks were as concerned about real obscenities like the war in Iraq, poverty, corruption, etc., as they are about someone saying a "bad" word on tv. Give me a break!
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good for her!!! It was not used in a derogatory sense...get the f' over it!!!
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hmm. i watched the clip someone sent in and i don't see what the big deal is.
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- BrngJaneThHorizn
- 6 months ago
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