Oscars: The Onion Under Fire for Calling Quvenzhane Wallis the C-Word
10:15 PM PST 2/24/2013 by Philiana Ng
On Sunday night, the satirical news organization referenced the 9-year-old Oscar nominee using a derogatory term, later deleting the tweet.
The Onion is under fire.
While the top awards were being handed out Sunday at the 85th Oscars, the satirical news organization sent out a message on its official Twitter account calling 9-year-old best actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis the C-word.
Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a cunt, right? #Oscars2013
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 25, 2013
The tweet, sent out around 8:42 p.m. PST, quickly made the rounds on the social media website. An hour later, the offending message was deleted from The Onion's feed.
There was outcry, with many calling out its inappropriateness and cheap dig. Treme and The Wire actor Wendell Pierce called out The Onion, tweeting: "Identify the writer. Let him defend that abhorrent verbal attack of a child. You call it humor I call it horrendous."
Wrote Yahoo! Canada's Greg Hughes: "The Onion made a pretty significant faux pas tonight on Quvenzhane Wallis. They deleted the tweet, but the Internet doesn't ever forget."
"Tonight @TheOnion behaved more like a 9yo than Quvenzhane Wallis, posting a tweet just to get attention. Well you've got it. Now what?" tweeted a user named Miss Lori.
Twitter user John Jones wrote: "Comedians usually stick to their guns, right or wrong. Pretty telling that the Onion pulled their tweet about young Quvenzhane Wallis..."
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."
E-mail: Philiana.Ng@thr.com
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Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/o
OP Says: Fuck whoever wrote the tweet.
Updates (thanks to
myrrhmade):
Quvenzhané Wallis Is No Joke: http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-cult
The Onion apologizes for calling Quvenzhane Wallis the 'C'-word: http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/02/t
For an example of continued horribleness on the part of some (though thankfully not all): http://s262.beta.photobucket.com/user/l
10:15 PM PST 2/24/2013 by Philiana Ng
On Sunday night, the satirical news organization referenced the 9-year-old Oscar nominee using a derogatory term, later deleting the tweet.
The Onion is under fire.
While the top awards were being handed out Sunday at the 85th Oscars, the satirical news organization sent out a message on its official Twitter account calling 9-year-old best actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis the C-word.
Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a cunt, right? #Oscars2013
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 25, 2013
The tweet, sent out around 8:42 p.m. PST, quickly made the rounds on the social media website. An hour later, the offending message was deleted from The Onion's feed.
There was outcry, with many calling out its inappropriateness and cheap dig. Treme and The Wire actor Wendell Pierce called out The Onion, tweeting: "Identify the writer. Let him defend that abhorrent verbal attack of a child. You call it humor I call it horrendous."
Wrote Yahoo! Canada's Greg Hughes: "The Onion made a pretty significant faux pas tonight on Quvenzhane Wallis. They deleted the tweet, but the Internet doesn't ever forget."
"Tonight @TheOnion behaved more like a 9yo than Quvenzhane Wallis, posting a tweet just to get attention. Well you've got it. Now what?" tweeted a user named Miss Lori.
Twitter user John Jones wrote: "Comedians usually stick to their guns, right or wrong. Pretty telling that the Onion pulled their tweet about young Quvenzhane Wallis..."
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."
E-mail: Philiana.Ng@thr.com
Twitter: @insidethetube
Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/o
OP Says: Fuck whoever wrote the tweet.
Updates (thanks to
Quvenzhané Wallis Is No Joke: http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-cult
The Onion apologizes for calling Quvenzhane Wallis the 'C'-word: http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/02/t
For an example of continued horribleness on the part of some (though thankfully not all): http://s262.beta.photobucket.com/user/l
What a horrific thing to say about a NINE YEAR OLD GIRL.
I know. I just can't even.
I can't tell if I'm not even surprised anymore or what.
Just gross, disgusting verbal violence against a little girl.
Being ironic because she's a sweet little girl? Tweets from people calling her arrogant and annoying? I don't know.
It's still just wrong though, and it's not exactly a surprise it went over like a lead balloon. Fuck whoever wrote the tweet is about right. Also, fuck Seth McFarlane and his hipster racism, sexism, and domestic violence jokes.
I was reading The Stir this morning (yeah, getting my daily gossip in), and one of the bloggers called out McFarlane's jokes as being bad, tasteless, and just plain wrong. The commenter's there were defending him, stating that they were just jokes and to lighten up, and that he does much worse on Family Guy. I was really tempted to comment that I didn't care who he was, joking about domestic violence, racism, and sexism is not cool.
edited for word fail.
Edited at 2013-02-25 02:17 pm (UTC)
I saw her at the Oscars (absolutely adorable little girl). I have not seen her work, but I am certain she also is a very talented young girl. I was hoping she would win best actress. (Unfortunately the Academy consists mostly of white men: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne
Edited at 2013-02-25 02:51 pm (UTC)
However, satire or not, it was deplorable and somebody should have the brains to not say it, and make their point a different way.
Seth McFarlane was disgusting, too. His "Date night" joke about Chris Brown and Rhianna was cruel.
Worst fucking Oscar ceremony ever, IMO...
Between this & Seth's shitty & unfunny jokes fuck them all
If memory serves, it might be a play off of Seth MacFarlane and Kristin Chenoweth's final musical number of the night about all the losers. The line was meant to rhyme with "Helen Hunt", but instead of saying "cunt", MacFarlane replaced it with "adorable", though the audience was fully aware of what was supposed to go there.
This doesn't, of course, make any of this okay. Satire only succeeds when the audience is in on the joke. And the joke itself only succeeds if it's funny.
This wasn't funny. She's nine. You don't talk about nine-year-old girls like that. She doesn't know what any of it means. She's not in on the joke; she shouldn't be in on any of MacFarlane's jokes at her age. This wasn't a comedy roast; it was the goddamn Academy Awards, and despite all the "advice" from Captain Kirk, MacFarlane fucked it up even worse than his supposed fuckups.
Memory did not serve. He was singing about Hathaway, not Wallis. Makes it less worse, but still bad.
Man, whatever. Award shows are all about honoring rich white people anyway.
Does anyone know WTF happened to Kristin Stewart that had her hobbling across the stage?Cut the ball of her foot on some glass, apparently. Didn't watch the red carpet pre-show, so I didn't know about her being on crutches.Edited at 2013-02-25 07:54 pm (UTC)
people besides Oscars people still care about the Oscars?
seriously. Hollywood glam and anything associated with it is a circle-jerk of overindulgent self-importance about how "artsy" and "influential" they are that it kind of annoys the bejeezus out of me how they ignore anything that could be seen as problematic but the second an Important Movie that deals with Important Subjects come out they'll give them an award and then forget about the subject matter.
"Oh, Bradley Cooper! Get your chin off the floor.
Here's your silver lining: You'll do Hangover 4!"
...
Amy Adams, Jacki Weaver, Sally Field and Helen Hunt,
Hathaway took away your Oscars, don't you think that girl's...adorable?"
Now why The Onion thought it would be a good idea to say what even Seth MacFarlane wouldn't say...not that his implication is really any better.
Edited at 2013-02-25 03:51 pm (UTC)
Also, a flawless Quvenzhane gif just because :