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Friday, February 15, 2008

Jane Fonda's Cunt...

OK so I have to weigh in here...Valentine's Day, Jane Fonda (70 - and great shape for it) is on the Today show with good old Meredith from the View/Millionare. Discussing the Vagina Monologues with the playwright, on the "V-Day" special...starts discussing the play and the DREADED C-u-n-t word comes out...SO WHAT???
If a 70 year old woman can say the word and not faint from the shock and horror...then what the fuck is the problem with the rest of the viewership of the show. If they are talking about the Vagina Monologues, don't you feel that the those who would be offended by that would have turned the channel? and then don't you feel those who would be offended by the play would also be the same who were offended by the word cunt? So therefore those who were watching would have some interest in the play, and would hopefully be open-minded about language, especially synonyms for the title part....its not like she called someone a Fucking Dumb Cunt or something. She was talking in context of the play. Is Censorship that powerful that they're falling over themselves to apologize for having offended people? Good god, get a grip. If the housewives/husbands/old ladies of North America who watch Today are sooo offended then maybe they deserve to have George Bush censoring their lives and "protecting them" from the evil empire and such horrible words.
For goodness sake's Jane Fonda is 70 SEVENTY!!! thats grandmother and then some age, so seriously if she's not offended then I just don't get it.
The best part is in the on air apology from Meredith..."Jane Fonda said a word we don't say on television" Like television is some bastion of righteousness and wholesomeness and good moral Values? Today is on NBC, The same network that airs Entertainment Tonight, that harped all over the Heath Ledger death and took away that dignity. So how dare they talk about the moralness of TV when they show shit like that. That's only one example yes, but for goodness sake's, TV is NOT somewhere to go for values and morals, even PBS has swearing. The violence and drug use and objectification of women as sex objects seems to raise no concern, but a 4 letter synonym for female anatomy seems to shock the bejeezus out of everyone...I think there's a problem here...Kinda like the whole Nipplegate scandal with Janet Jackson. I think there was more notice because they went out of the way to point it out afterwards, and that certainly wasn't a huge deal either.
At the end of the day TV is around and people can decide what to watch and what not to watch. If you're offended turn it off or elsewhere.
If you want morals and proper language, go to Bible Camp. And even they play with flutes at Bible Camp...

2 Comments:

  • At 1:49 PM , Blogger gulldogg said...

    I never understood the whole offense being taken from those words: pussy, cunt, twat....whatever.

    I mean, "cock" and "dick" are used as terms of degradation, and I don't know if I've ever heard of a guy being offended by the negativization of their parts and pieces (nice invent-a-word there).

    Anyway....

     
  • At 12:37 PM , Blogger Gavin27 said...

    Exactly. More empowerment of words when they are nothing short of slang for body parts...is Middle America THAT scared of it? lol

     

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