omg meredith's face!!!

They're doing this at my school this week. Bleh.

"femicide" fuck you. that is a stupid fucking name. stop trying to make everything "girly". guh.

I so can't watch this at work. At least not now. Maybe at lunchtime.

You need to post the pathetic apology Meredith gave later in the show..."we would never do anything to offend our viewers" ;)

umm, someone at the Today show doesn't know how to spell "playwright."

That's awesome! I just want to go around all day dropping nicknames for vagina in random, unexpected places.

Feminist? You have got to be kidding! This woman changes her personality to fit the man in her life.

This was hilarious. Jane just dropped it ever so casually, to the point that I was like, did I just hear that? and yes, Meredith's apology was lame. But I guess appropriate.

and for the record: i think the c-word is really vulgar and should not really be said on tv or even to other people unless they've done something really really bad.

i know, color me pr00dish.

@Leiakat: Yes, but Jane Fonda has managed to have a career despite it seeming over about 10 different times, and especially despite the fact that she's in her 60s. Not that she's, you know, out winning Oscars right now, but for a woman of her age in Hollywood, she's doing damn well. No worse than Diane Keaton, at least.

Why is cunt such a bad word? I don't get it.

@foree: She totally did the "awkward smirk!" Katie would not have been able to roll with that.

oh, whatever. cunt cunt cunty cunt cunt.

@bigapplemama: Oh the stay-at-home, soccer moms are still gonna be pissed!

@bigapplemama: The appology made it worse! I did a double take when Jane said the word but I didn't think most people noticed. Once Meredith appologized I rewound my Tivo to listen to it again! I also thought saying we'd never to anything to offend our viewers is funny, because I feel like my intelligence is insulted by Today almost every morning i.e. this mornings "What the flowers he sends you mean about his feelings."

I noticed that and found it rather hilarious. I mean, not that I was watching the Today Show or anything...:-/

Meh. The context here really takes the offensive out of it. I was all thinking she was going to be calling Meredith a cunt. Which I would laugh at.

@DorothyZbornak: I never heard this word used growing up and then the first times i heard it, it was used as an insult and for some reason i just associate it with lik... really wanting it to stick to someone. I don't feel this way because it's another word for vagina, so it's not like I'm grossed out by it, I just... I don't know... that's sort of the way it was introduced to me and I can't get past it. I've never used it.

@DorothyZbornak: I don't know. I only new what it was from watching "boys on the side"

I guess its just always used as a negative. But like the N-word I think we are just re-vamping it?

@ineffable.me: I'm sort of the same way. It's the only "bad" word I don't like to say, and I will only break it out in extreme circumstances. I am not sure why. But I'll drop the F bomb 12 ways to Sunday. Go figure.

@tellmeagain: She's 70. My local tv anchor "looked it up" after the segment and then announced it during the weather break.

@ineffable.me: I'm gonna have to agree with you. I find it distasteful and vulgar. Not everything freakin' bad word needs to be "reclaimed". I'd rather just not hear it at all.

@BeAgrestic: ahahahhaaha totally did the smirk. its my fave face to make when people say inappropriate things at work.

I loved The Colbert Report ep(s) when Fonda was on.

@blackbirdfly: yeah i have the mouth of a sailor, that's for sure.

@tellmeagain: And being the daughter of Henry Fonda or being married to Ted Turner had nothing to do with that.

Shameless self promoter, but then that isn't surprising in Hollywood.

@blackbirdfly: The f-word is more generalized--it can be used as a verb, etc.. The c-word is generally directed towards women in attempt to be the worst of insults--against a woman's body, her attitude and overal worth. I think it's a gross word.

What's she supposed to call it, a vajayjay? Give it power. That's what the Vagina Monologues was supposed to do in the first place.

I've seen the Vagina Monologues a/b 5 times, and it's still hard for me to say "cunt"e, unless I'm super angry. I haven't ownd up to that word yet, and just recently began to feel empowered by "bitch". Yeah I have you bitches to thank for that!

@ineffable.me: As my sister always says, "I cunt say that word! I just cunt!!!"

@Lady Skittlehattington: That's what I was thinking too. As far as using the word "cunt" on national tv goes, this was very subtle and perhaps even tasteful.

@foree: I used to get in so much trouble when I did it in my PoliSci class! It's a little less condescending than the "smile and nod."

@Lady Skittlehattington:
"I was all thinking she was going to be calling Meredith a cunt. Which I would laugh at."
So funny, so true.

I will only use the word "cunt" to degrade my fellow women follow by some neck and eyes rolling and snapping of my fingers shouting "you better get out of my face!"

@Lady Skittlehattington: Twat? I cunt hear you.

pah, i'm english, we say it all the time. i'm not claiming it's right, but until someone explains why it's more wrong than any other swear word, i'm using it. taboo my arse.

@Lady Skittlehattington:

I agree . . . take a look: she did not really "use" the word, but referred to the title of a monologue or section of the play. Like if the play was called "A Box of Crayons" and she said "I was asked to do a monologue called 'Yellow'".

We should all be more outraged by the femicide in Africa (and elsewhere).

I'm more excited/impressed that she doesn't shy away from the f-word, far more than her usage of the c-word. How rarely do women in Hollywood profess being feminists? It's nice to see.

@hamburgerhotdog: Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.

Jane said The Word under her breath and it was easy to miss. Of course, the apology only magnified it. Where I came from, "cunt" was only used to describe the vagina and it was no more vulgar than "pussy." It wasn't until I saw the Sex Pistols documentary, "The Filth and the Fury" that I learned it was also used to diss a person. Johnny Rotten: "We were the first people to call each other cunts. And we are!"

man, their interns must be illiterate. During the painful flower segment: "I think YOUR boastful?"
Wait, you think my boastful is what Today? What is it?

@ineffable.me: @hammerimissu: @blackbirdfly: Yeah, I don't like hearing it when a man uses it as an insult. But then, I feel the same way about bitch in that regard. Usually if I use it as an insult, it's part of a word like "cunt rag" or "cunt bag."

@BeAgrestic: yeah polisci will do that to you..i do it in health delivery systems and i do an arm cross..ugh.

@so5minutesago: no, just call it a VAGINA. all these other words, all they do is stop people from saying VAGINA. like its a fucking bad word.

@Lady Skittlehattington: hahaha.

@DorothyZbornak: I personally love the word. And I will happily campaign on it!!

@Style Queen: Yeah, I can only use it when I'm super pissed about something. I was never able to say it, and then one day I had an ex-boyfriend call me a cunt for telling him he needed to move his stuff out of my storage shed four months after we broke up. At that point I figured, that word has definitely lost some of its power with me if I can be called that over something so fucking trivial.

I've never been a fan of the word cunt, however, I've been reading a certain work of historical fiction where they use the word "cunny" and I've become kind of enamored of it. It's my new favorite word for lady parts.