# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/41 "2013-02-25T15:19:05Z")
Most people in this world (I’m looking at you, China) don’t understand that The Onion is satirical and when they see a tweet like that start making the rounds, they take it at face value. That’s not The Onion’s fault. The joke’s hilarious and fits in with The Onion’s style and humor. I’m disappointed that they took it down, actually. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/42 "2013-02-25T15:21:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Apparently. And while admittedly I don’t remember her being called a “cunt,” Dakota Fanning was lampooned pretty relentlessly back when she was… er, a young woman of colorlessness. In 2005, Kathy Griffin got in trouble for joking that she just got out of rehab: [http://www.spike.com/video-clips/fzh5jm/kathy-griffins-dakota-fanning-joke](http://www.spike.com/video-clips/fzh5jm/kathy-griffins-dakota-fanning-joke) How soon we forget… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/43 "2013-02-25T15:36:10Z")
I saw it as satirizing the shark-like coverage of red-carpet blogosphere-- catty, over-the-top, shallow. Perez, E!, Joan Rivers…which hack can get the most attention by verbally attacking a movie star! I mean is there a worse thing that can be said about a 9-year-old girl? Of course not. That’s what makes this so funny. Would have been even funnier if a drunk Jackie Harvey had been the Tweeter, with “_Item_!” leading it off. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/44 "2013-02-25T15:37:25Z")
This thread is like reading the comments on an Onion Facebook post. Makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/45 "2013-02-25T15:52:31Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Once the phrase “nine year old woman of color” has been uttered for the outrage side, it’s hard to take them seriously. A phrase ludicrous enough for _The Onion_ itself to have coined… and to pile on the coincidences, is [this](https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2380085180/y0u32ggrwoq5hpcbi92z.jpeg) if the Elizabeth Hawksworth in question. she’s a dead ringer for [Jean Teasdale](http://www.theonion.com/personalities/jean-teasdale,1021/). ---
**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, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/46 "2013-02-25T15:55:15Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I’ll do it. Next time she’s headed to the bank, have her driver swing by my place. I’ll hop in the back of her limo and explain that one of the reasons she gets everything in life she wants is that she is famous 1. Why do you think she is wealthy? 2. Why do you think she gets everything she wants in life? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/47 "2013-02-25T16:18:04Z")
Not the best joke I’ve ever heard, but it’s an easy joke to get and not worth all this outrage. Nothing says _offenderati_ quite like a white university professor complaining about a joke she didn’t get on behalf of a “nine-year-old woman of color.” And Seth MacFarlane sort of called Anne Hathaway cunt at the end of the Oscars\*, and it was very funny. But only because she’s white and 30, I guess. So it’s too bad The Onion withdrew this one, but I guess they saw there’s no way to win when half the people are saying you’re sexist and half are saying you’re racist. \*It was something like “Amy Adams, Jacki Weaver, Sally Field and Helen Hunt/ Hathaway took away your Oscars, don’t you think that girl’s a…dorable?” And the other joke was that Wallis will be too old for Clooney in 16 years, i.e. when she is 25. There’s no child-abuse element to that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/48 "2013-02-25T16:21:11Z")
Well, I lol’ed. And if Dakota Fanning were still that age I can absolutely see them making the very same exact joke about her. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/49 "2013-02-25T16:27:28Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > And if Dakota Fanning were still that age I can absolutely see them making the very same exact joke about her. Imagine what they’d be saying about Drew Barrymore if she were a teenager now. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/50 "2013-02-25T16:32:11Z")
Well I never… someone should kick that writer in the pussy. ---
**Author:** ![SleuFeets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SleuFeets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleuFeets)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/51 "2013-02-25T16:34:50Z")
To my understanding, The Onion always offered progressive, left leaning, witty social commentary. Statistically, half of it’s readers are college educated white males who make 70,000+ a year. I’m sure they didn’t consider the implications of their audience or the target of the joke. Which is the problem. For people as funny and smart as they are supposed to be… ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/52 "2013-02-25T16:48:21Z")
From The Onion: > [@The Onion](#): > > Dear Readers, > > On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It was crude and offensive—not to mention inconsistent with The Onion’s commitment to parody and satire, however biting. > … > No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire. > > The tweet was taken down within an hour of publication. We have instituted new and tighter Twitter procedures to ensure that this kind of mistake does not occur again. > > In addition, we are taking immediate steps to discipline those individuals responsible. > > Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better. All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry. > > Sincerely, > > Steve Hannah > CEO > The Onion Lame. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/53 "2013-02-25T16:52:27Z")
I would love it if Quvanzhane came out and said something like “What? I thought it was hilarious!” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/54 "2013-02-25T16:54:15Z")
I find Steve Hannah’s letter and his need to “discipline those individuals responsible” to be more offensive than the original Tweet. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/55 "2013-02-25T16:57:47Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Lame. All I can think to say is ‘Say it ain’t so, Joe.’ ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/56 "2013-02-25T17:02:23Z")
I am assuming it is a pick your battles kind of thing. Sure they probably didn’t have to apologize, but when the battle is you versus a ragamuffin nine year-old, that may not where you want to spend time and energy defending yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/57 "2013-02-25T17:07:04Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I am assuming it is a pick your battles kind of thing. Sure they probably didn’t have to apologize, but when the battle is you versus a ragamuffin nine year-old, that may not where you want to spend time and energy defending yourself. Is there any reason to believe that’s who the battle was between? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/58 "2013-02-25T17:14:30Z")
How is calling Quvenzhané Wallis a cunt in a tweet something that demands a public apology from the Onion’s CEO, but [this](http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-slapped-a-crying-child-and-called-him-a-nigger-a,31361/)is okay? Both use offensive language directed at a real, live human child. But only one of those is causing major wailing and gnashing of teeth this morning. Is it because one’s a celebrity nominated for an Oscar, and the other is just an unfamous baby that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? For the record, I find neither of these Onion pieces offensive, I’m just curious why one is too controversial to keep up longer than 15 minutes and requires certain staff to be disciplined, and the other is considered ok. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/59 "2013-02-25T17:16:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I find Steve Hannah’s letter and his need to “discipline those individuals responsible” to be more offensive than the original Tweet. Amen. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329/60 "2013-02-25T17:17:11Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > How is calling Quvenzhané Wallis a cunt in a tweet something that demands a public apology from the Onion’s CEO, but [this](http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-slapped-a-crying-child-and-called-him-a-nigger-a,31361/)is okay? [I guess people understood who was being made fun of in that story](http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/travel/crying-boy-assault/index.html), and they did not understand the target of the Wallis tweet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-calls-quevanzhane-wallis-a-cunt/651329.md?page=4)