A threat to common decency.
In case you haven't heard (and why would you?) there's some-a-cussin' going on. Television cussin', that is. Live TV + Jane Fonda = A Hell of a lot of fun. Jane Fonda appeared on The Today Show Thursday morning talking about a play called "The Vagina Monologues". As you can see, on television you're allowed to say vagina at 9am, but not ... well, watch and learn: She "inadvertently said" the word. Really? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, inadvertently: 1 : not focusing the mind on a matter : inattentive 2 : unintentional - in·ad·ver·tent·ly adverb . It didn't sound unintentional to me. I think she was being advertant . It didn't sound like a slip or something that was not intended to be used. Meredith made it sound like it got spewed out in the heat of the moment. Jane knew what she was saying. A little faux pas by our old pal Jane. At 70, you'd think she would be old enough to know better. Maybe she does, which...