Jane Fonda responds to her “c*nt” remark
Jane Fonda caused quite a stir when she said the word “cunt” on the Today Show during an interview yesterday - but the fitness video favorite can’t understand why her little outburst caused such uproar.
Fonda, 70, was being interviewed about V Day, a star-studded event to end violence against women that stemmed from the popularity of the Vagina Monologues. She let slip the offensive word when she recalled first getting involved in the Vagina Monologues. “It wasn’t that I wasn’t a big fan, but I hadn’t seen the play - I live in Georgia,” she said about the delay in getting involved.
“Then I was asked to do a monologue called ‘c**t’, and I said, ‘I don’t think so. I’ve got enough problems’”, she said.
“It was pretty embarrassing,” one viewer said yesterday. “But I guess you’re asking for trouble if you decide to cover The Vagina Monologues stage show on family TV.”
Jane responded to the controversy at V-Day’s 10th Anniversary Party in NYC last night, saying: “The first time that I knew about The Vagina Monologues, I was asked to perform that particular monologue in Atlanta, and so I just happened to say the name of it.”
“I didn’t even think,” the two-time Academy Award-winning American actress added. “I’m sorry if I offended anybody … I think it’s pretty silly.”
Meredith Vieira - the host of the Today Show, the most watched breakfast show in the States - later issued an apology. “We were talking about The Vagina Monologues and Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don’t say on television,” she said.
“It was a slip and obviously she apologizes, and so do we. We would do nothing to offend the audience. So please accept that apology.”
By Owen Williams, Feb 15 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
Category Showbiz Gossip
Yeah, but she also thought it was okay to pose on an anti-aircraft guy used to shoot down US planes.
Here in Amherst, Mass we have a HIGH SCHOOL that will perform ‘VM’ tonight (yeah, the same one that banned a performance of “West Side Story” in 1999).
School officials will not apologize. They are proud. Only in Amherst!
Comment February 15, 2008
that they had to apologize offends me.
Comment February 17, 2008
With all the horrible things going on in our world today, a silly slip of the tongue by a 70 year old women is about as low on the list of things to worry about as I can think of. What about all the lies and attrocities our own President commits every single day of his life? What about what is going on in Dafur? This country and it’s conservative bullshit is starting to get on my nerves. When did this country become so intolerant and judgemental? My god…it was a word…just like the word “NIGGER”…that word gets people fired and sued now.
They are words….words friends. remember the old childhood poem. “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me”….we need some backbone in some people.
Comment February 18, 2008
what has happened to everyone’s sense of humor? My god…I don’t want to live in a country where no one has a sense of humor anymore. Bring me back the 70s and the 60s where people could say anything and people had to just deal with it. We are too worried about our “FEELINGS” for people to be able to move and live in this place….get me outta here!!!!!
Comment February 18, 2008
Only a damn fool or a white person would say ‘nigger is just a word, lighten up’. That’s liberal BS of the worst kind; you’ll be saying you ‘don’t see colour’ next. Pfft.
Educate yourself - hell, buy a Roots DVD boxset and tell me it’s ‘just a word’ after watching that. It’s not backbone that ’some people’ need (who would these people be, by the way?) it’s a brain - use it or lose it!
Anyway, c*** really IS just a word, but we don’t use it all the time, and it’s not had a history of being used to systematically denigrate and oppress a group of people. It’s one of the few insults/curses that genuinely has any power, and that’s the beauty of our language - we have a select few words that can cause upset when it slips out.
They’ve said sorry, let’s all move on now - there are worse things to worry about, that much is true.
Comment February 18, 2008