Jane Fonda drops the C-word on Today show

[lurkur]

Originally Posted by BoogsBun

I like the term cunt cakes. Mine is cunt muffin. That word goes really well with baked goods words.

Lemme try... cunt loaf... Hey, it really does go well!!

Oops, I accidentally started to type "tit really does!" Just a Cuntian slip, I reckon!

[Bijoux]

Originally Posted by TheONe

I always heard that women thought that word the WORST word that could ever be muttered??

It is.

If you REALLY hate a bitch...you call her a CUNT.

[Beeyotch]

Originally Posted by Mel1973

it's just a word, I don't get the whole stigma. I used to have a male friend who thought it was so funny to say "Twat, I cunt hear you".. fucking idiot..

Bahahahaha! I must use that!

I do think context and intent is everything. These days people use words like this more often and it's starting to lose its shock value and ability to offend.

[gossip_moll]

It was the title of the monologue, right? It's not like she used to word to debase anyone.

[Laurent]

NBC apologizes for Jane Fonda's offensive word
Fri Feb 15, 9:13 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television network NBC apologized for itself and actress Jane Fonda on Thursday after she used an offensive word on the "Today Show."

NBC called it "a slip" and said they did not mean to offend audiences.

Fonda was on the program on Thursday with playwright Eve Ensler to discuss Ensler's award-winning work, "The Vagina Monologues," in which women talk about their sexuality using frank language about their bodies and references to genitalia.

"Vagina Monologues" has spawned a movement called V-Day that aims to stop violence against women, and it is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Thursday.

Over the years, celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek, Sally Field, Glenn Close and Fonda have become involved in V-Day. On the "Today Show," Fonda explained how she first heard of "Vagina Monologues."

"I was asked to do a monologue called 'C***,' and I said, 'I don't think so. I've got enough problems," Fonda said. "Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life."

The "Today Show" airs live on the U.S. East Coast, and the word was not muted or bleeped. Moments later program host Meredith Vieira apologized to audiences.

"Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television. It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."

U.S. broadcast standards and practices bar the use of the word uttered by Fonda.

NBC said for other U.S. time zones, it silenced the word and covered the video with a still photo when Fonda uttered it.

NBC is part of the NBC Universal media division of General Electric Co.

(Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Xavier Briand)

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