# The Onion calls Quevanzhane Wallis a cunt. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329 "2013-02-25T06:40:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/1 "2013-02-25T06:40:25Z")
I laughed. Of course. The tweet was funny to me. [Link.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/onion-calls-quvenzhane-wallis-c-424113) But. I had recently joined a black board to post to when you white folks get on my nerve. I let them know I thought it was funny. I’m not welcome there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/2 "2013-02-25T06:43:38Z")
This is why I feel bad for child actors. When you’re an adult and decide to get into the entertainment business, you’re making a conscious choice to be an object of ridicule for comedians. But a nine-year-old has no conception of the level of exposure and shit-throwing that’s going to come her way if she becomes a movie star. It’s fucked up. And it’s a shit move by the _Onion_. They should know better. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/3 "2013-02-25T06:47:50Z")
I think they have already buckled. I heard they deleted the tweet. I heard they are getting a TON of shit for this one. ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/4 "2013-02-25T06:52:30Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > This is why I feel bad for child actors. When you’re an adult and decide to get into the entertainment business, you’re making a conscious choice to be an object of ridicule for comedians. But a nine-year-old has no conception of the level of exposure and shit-throwing that’s going to come her way if she becomes a movie star. It’s fucked up. And it’s a shit move by the _Onion_. They should know better. Really? I don’t know anything about this actress besides the fact that she is young, but I think the point of the joke was there was no way on Earth someone so young could be a cunt. So, really, I don’t think she was the butt of the joke, at all. It’s like calling a newborn a cunt. However, if she was actually acting kind of bratty and the Onion’s comment was in response to that, then I rescind my previous argument and agree that the Onion’s tweet was in poor taste. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/5 "2013-02-25T06:56:48Z")
Gestalt, I think that yeah, she had been pinging some people’s ‘a little too precocious’ meter for a minute now. Still, I think the Onion was just joking with the idea that a kid could be a cunt. It was just a joke. I just don’t understand the outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/6 "2013-02-25T07:27:36Z")
Deleting the tweet was a big mistake. They should have just said “We’re a satirical newspaper, go fuck yourself.” Deleting it shows weakness. Now every self-righteous, holier-than-thou twit who follows Hollywood news will descend on the Onion, sensing blood and seeing the opportunity to get their 5 seconds of fame by winning the competition to pack the most outrage and racial sensitivity into 140 characters. > [@Linked Article](#): > > Elizabeth Hawksworth tweeted: “Quvenzhane Wallis is a nine year old woman of colour. Let’s let what @TheOnion did sink in and remember that Dakota Fanning never had this.” Who the fuck is Elizabeth Hawksworth? Just some random dipshit, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/7 "2013-02-25T07:30:23Z")
Heh, I too am in the minority on my ‘black board’. I think there’s a general feeling that such a joke wouldn’t be made about a little white girl. Which, given the depraved comedy I enjoy, I know to be a ridiculous notion. I’ve heard awful, awful things about Dakota Fanning. But, yeah, the outrage is of the ‘woe be unto black women’ variety. Pretty cringey joke, though. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/8 "2013-02-25T07:32:25Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > This is why I feel bad for child actors. When you’re an adult and decide to get into the entertainment business, you’re making a conscious choice to be an object of ridicule for comedians. But a nine-year-old has no conception of the level of exposure and shit-throwing that’s going to come her way if she becomes a movie star. It’s fucked up. And it’s a shit move by the _Onion_. They should know better. Not gonna lie. I laughed, and I laughed pretty hard. I didn’t take it as an attack on the little girl. I really just saw it as a joke they were making with other adults that they could laugh at. Did not seem mean spirited or like an attack on Qu. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/9 "2013-02-25T07:32:37Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > Heh, I too am in the minority on my ‘black board’. > > I think there’s a general feeling that such a joke wouldn’t be made about a little white. Which, given the depraved comedy I enjoy, I know to be a ridiculous notion. > > But, yeah, the outrage is of the ‘woe be unto black women’ variety. Pretty cringey joke, though. Honey, I am getting DRAGGED. I honestly can’t ever post there again. I now know the true meaning of ostracized. To keep it real, though, I have noticed a tinge of annoying behavior from Q a few times in recent interviews, but I think overall, the Onion was going for a ‘she’s so sweet and precious, how could she ever be considered a cunt’ humor. Which means it really was a compliment. But yeah. The levels of outrage are off the charts. People are calling the Onion pedophiles and everything. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/10 "2013-02-25T07:39:18Z")
This is horrendous, disguting, and inexcusable. This might even be worse than when Jonathan Swift suggested that the Irish sell their children as food. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/11 "2013-02-25T07:44:23Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Honey, I am getting DRAGGED. I honestly can’t ever post there again. I now know the true meaning of ostracized. > > To keep it real, though, I have noticed a tinge of annoying behavior from Q a few times in recent interviews, but I think overall, the Onion was going for a ‘she’s so sweet and precious, how could she ever be considered a cunt’ humor. Which means it really was a compliment. > > But yeah. The levels of outrage are off the charts. People are calling the Onion pedophiles and everything. I think the pedo charge is being leveled at Seth McFarlane because he made some joke about her being almost old enough for Clooney. Pretty tame shit on the ‘edgy’ scale. I guess, as a community, we’re supposed to be circling around our baby. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/12 "2013-02-25T07:47:24Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > This might even be worse than when Jonathan Swift suggested that the Irish sell their children as food. :mad: But we already have a lot of Irish children. I’m just… I’m just sayin’. But yeah, I just see that as The Onion being a little ridiculous for the chuckles. Like, “Yeah, that completely adorable child actress you all love? Well, she’s kind of a cunt.” Haw haw haw. They’re not attacking her; they’re just being silly. But that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/13 "2013-02-25T07:54:12Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Not gonna lie. I laughed, and I laughed pretty hard. I didn’t take it as an attack on the little girl. I really just saw it as a joke they were making with other adults that they could laugh at. Did not seem mean spirited or like an attack on Qu. I don’t blame you for laughing and I can understand how it can be seen as funny. I enjoy plenty of gallows humor and sick jokes myself. I get the joke they were going for, although I don’t find it funny. The difference between a dead-baby joke and calling a nine-year-old actress a cunt is that _the dead babies aren’t real_. She is an actual human being with feelings. Do you want to be the one to explain to her, “no, honey, you see, it’s actually a meta-joke, so they weren’t _really_ calling you a cunt, so it’s all OK!” There’s no justification for it. Humor doesn’t justify it, edginess doesn’t justify it. The guy writing for the Onion’s twitter account is simply a bully who got a boner by making fun of a little kid in front of millions of people. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/14 "2013-02-25T07:57:23Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I don’t blame you for laughing and I can understand how it can be seen as funny. I enjoy plenty of gallows humor and sick jokes myself. I get the joke they were going for, although I don’t find it funny. The difference between a dead-baby joke and calling a nine-year-old actress a cunt is that _the dead babies aren’t real_. She is an actual human being with feelings. Do you want to be the one to explain to her, “no, honey, you see, it’s actually a meta-joke, so they weren’t _really_ calling you a cunt, so it’s all OK!” > > There’s no justification for it. Humor doesn’t justify it, edginess doesn’t justify it. The guy writing for the Onion’s twitter account is simply a bully who got a boner by making fun of a little kid in front of millions of people. Yep. I’ll explain it to her. Somebody better. You see, when you become a celebrity, and you get lots of attention and lights and awards and money, you will also get people saying mean things. Better learn to shrug that off, especially when it’s just a joke and not meant to really cut you. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/15 "2013-02-25T08:01:43Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > I think the pedo charge is being leveled at Seth McFarlane because he made some joke about her being almost old enough for Clooney. I have no doubt that many people are complaining that MacFarlane made a joke that she is “almost old enough for Clooney”, but the actual joke was “she has 15 year until she’s too old for George Clonney.” The implications of the _actual_ joke are not nearly as bad as the implications of the joke as it is being retold. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/16 "2013-02-25T08:05:19Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > The guy writing for the Onion’s twitter account is simply a bully who got a boner by making fun of a little kid in front of millions of people. cite? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/17 "2013-02-25T08:07:11Z")
In the immortal words of the film _[In Brudges](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/reference)_: **Ken:** \* Harry, let’s face it. And I’m not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you’re a cunt. You’re a cunt now, and you’ve always been a cunt. And the only thing that’s going to change is that you’re going to be an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.\* **Harry:** [furious] _Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!_ **Ken:** \* I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.\* **Harry:** \* Insult my fucking kids? That’s going overboard, mate!\* **Ken:** \* I retracted it, didn’t I?\* ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/18 "2013-02-25T08:07:34Z")
I think the Onion is to be commended for helping the young star to live a normal life by exposing her to the sort of social interaction she would experience if she went to a typical public school like the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/19 "2013-02-25T08:07:51Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > The difference between a dead-baby joke and calling a nine-year-old actress a cunt is that _the dead babies aren’t real_. She is an actual human being with feelings. Do you want to be the one to explain to her, “no, honey, you see, it’s actually a meta-joke, so they weren’t _really_ calling you a cunt, so it’s all OK!” Ah, I get what you’re saying, and fair enough. > [@](#): > > The guy writing for the Onion’s twitter account is simply a bully who got a boner by making fun of a little kid in front of millions of people. But I don’t get this because, again, I don’t think the joke was about making fun of a little girl. Meta-joke and all of that. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/20 "2013-02-25T08:08:08Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I have no doubt that many people are complaining that MacFarlane made a joke that she is “almost old enough for Clooney”, but the actual joke was “she has 15 year until she’s too old for George Clonney.” The implications of the _actual_ joke are not nearly as bad as the implications of the joke as it is being retold. The outrage is that he _even dared_ to think of her in a sexual manner. So knowing the actual joke wouldn’t tame that. Once the outrage tornado gets turning, good sense is too quiet to be heard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329.md?page=2)