December 18th, 2013
04:15 PM ET
Jennifer Lawrence: It should be illegal to call someone fatJennifer Lawrence is not a saint. But, as she argues in Barbara Walters' "Most Fascinating People of 2013" special, she's also not a member of the media.
In the pre-taped special that's airing on Wednesday, Walters points out that Lawrence is sensitive about the press sitting in judgment of women on the red carpet. "Why is humiliating people funny?" the 23-year-old Oscar winner said. "I get it, and I do it too, we all do it. But I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls that are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool. So then all of a sudden, being funny is making fun of the girl that's wearing an ugly dress." Lawrence doesn't call it out by name in the clip, but she has previously taken a stance against E!'s "Fashion Police," which is known for its sometimes cutting coverage of awards show ensembles. And if it were up to Lawrence none of the "Fashion Police" personalities - or anyone on TV, really - would be able to say the "F" word in particular. "The word fat, I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. If we're regulating cigarettes, and sex, and cuss words, because of the effect it has on our younger generations, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?" What do you think - does J. Law have a point? See the entire interview when Barbara Walters' "Most Fascinating People" special airs on ABC at 9:30 p.m. ET. |
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"Fat" like most other nouns and adjectives I know of is a perfectly good word. Been around a long time. If a person or an animal is "fat", it is "fat". Perfectly good desciption when true.
Given the obesity problem there is in the USA, we should probably be using the word more often. To throw it in the pile with George Carlin's famous seven words and make it illegal to even utter is the dumbest idea I have heard from anyone lately.
The problem mostly being Americans are getting fatter every day. We do it to ourselves!
And PC isn't going to change it by calling them gastronomically challenged or calorically over-consumptive. It is a barrel of "pre-elimination undigested fat". Not total unlike Jennifers spewing.
How about everybody just gets over themselves instead?
the united states of the easily offended along with too many politically correct hollywood types .
Now political-correctness should be enforced by law, but only if it's going to be published by the media! What people only get called 'fat' on TV during safe-harbor time (10pm-6pm) when it's OK to air indecent material? Good thing she's just a Law-rence and not a law-maker!
Illegal to call someone fat? How about we just call them slim-challenged.
I would rather that unhealthy people feel bad about their condition so that they might improve that condition.
Really? Come on – are we "sensitive" about everything? Only – and I mean ONLY caring what other people think about us, so we stay politically, socially and whatever more correct? Who stes the standards for "correctness" then? I have my own opinion about things. I don't need everybody to agree with me. It's nice to see people have the same opinion. but I would never put pressure on someone to think the same way as me. Different peolpe means different characters. That's what makes life interesting. All going the same way? You catch my drift...
I'm not fat, I'm big boned
I really admire her for her acting. She's really good at the roles she plays. And it it would be nice if shows like the Fashion Police were so unpopular they would just get canceled. But unfortunately too many people like that sort of trash talk.
It should be ILLEGAL to call this INTELLIGENCE!
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Here's a good idea: censor nothing on television and actually use freedom of speech!
Yeah, but then the churchies and social conservatives would be up in arms about people saying things that offend them.
If you're going to make the word 'fat' ILLEGAL, you have to do the same with calling people skinny or anorexic looking etc
Wow nice! Feminism isn't dead, y'all.
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What a smart young woman, standing up to young girls!
She should be an ambassador at beautyredefined.net
I would think after making a few very successful movies about a totalitarian government she wouldn't be speaking out in favor of one.
Best, comment, ever
Ever? As in, best in all of recorded history??
She got the cooties.
Shouldn't call them fat, call them gravitationally challenged. Or Spherical people.
That Barbra Walters sure looks pretty.
All the same troll commenter. You ain't foolin' anybody, pal.
Same redundant unfunny twit troll.
Ms. Lawrence is cool. She is a refreshing change to the type of personalities that have come out of Hollywood recently. She's honest and unafraid to speak her mind, and according to her statement, she's empathetic to others. I just hope fame does not changer her.
Encouraging a form of censorship because she finds a word offensive is something to be commended?
Sometimes I really worry what our country will be like in 20 years....
America is truly a psychotic society. Everyday I observe more evidence that the American mainstream/pop culture is truly like a cancer of the mind. How can a woman, who makes her living on her appearance, try to tell people that appearance SHOULDN'T matter. What kind of non-sense is this?
I'll say again. This woman makes a living by her looks, and tries to tell people not to judge on appearance?
Typical – A Man who just doesn't get it. Further evidence that stupid people are like a cancer to society as a whole.
She makes her living on her talent, not her looks. Sure she is nice to look at, but saying she makes her living on her looks says more about you than it does about her.
Don't let your kids watch garbage like E! network. Problem solved...