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Jennifer Aniston Under Fire For Using The Word "Retard"

Posted on Thu Aug 19, 2010 01:15 PM PDT

Jennifer Aniston's appearance this morning on Live with Regis and Kelly has caused an uproar with the mentally challenged community due to her use of the word "retard."

During the interview to promote her latest film The Switch, Regis brought up her Harper's Bazaar photoshoot in which she dresses up as Barbra Streisand. He then says, "You're playing dress up." Aniston, 41, replies, "Yes, I play dress up. I do it for a living, like a retard."

Members of The Arc, a nonprofit advocate for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, are up in arms. CEO Peter Berns released the following statement to X17online:

    “We estimate that there are probably in excess of 5 million people in the country with intellectual disabilities, and when you think about all of them, their family members and friends, you're talking about tens of millions of people who find the use of that term to be really offensive. Every time folks hear that word, it reminds them of all the discrimination and oppression they've experienced in their lives. Even if it wasn't intended to insult them, that is the effect of it."

The Arc is calling on Aniston to apologize for her "inadvertent remark." Jennifer Aniston's rep was not available for comment.



Do you find that word offensive?

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Posted by: Anonymous

Americans are such babies! Who the freak cares if you say that word or nig, beaner, honkie, spade, ect. Why do people take seriously stupid words? Isn't there more important things too worry about?



Posted by: Anonymous

oh please.



Posted by: Anonymous

She liked role playing with John Mayer as the retard.



Posted by: Anonymous

She is doing this crap on purpose to drum up business for whatever she is hawking at the moment.

This routine is getting old, just like her.



Posted by: Anonymous

Good it is about time the holyier than though attitude stops, she is pathetic, her and her "look at me" feel sorry for me, I am Jennifer Aniston



Posted by: Anonymous

Overly sensitive retards. Get over your retarded selves and look in the mirror. You are retards. You can find the word in the dictionary and used it appropriately.



Posted by: Anonymous

OMG! Get over it people. Everyone is getting too damn sensitive.



Posted by: maggie

oh my....how retarded!!



Posted by: Anonymous

She was talking about herself..YOUR PLAYING DRESSUP..LIKE WHAT REGIS A
LITTLE GIRL..GET OVER IT ..CELEBRITIES
SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT EVER
THEY WANT IT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW..
SAYING RETARD IS NOT THE SAME AS SAYING
WORSE WORDS..SENSITIVE OR WHAT.. WHAT
NEXT ....EH... WHO DIED AND MADE THE
MEDIA GOD TO SAY OH AND SHE GOT IN HOT
WATER OVER SAYING RETARD..!!



Posted by: Anonymous

She knows what most stars with a brain for business know:

a little controversy = big bucks



Posted by: Oceania

Hahaha, you Americans are so entertaining when you get overzealous with your Orwellian pc new-speech, you retarded pc nazis.



Posted by: Mariana

1:19 I totally agreed..pleaseeeee a lot more important thing to fight about that a silly word that they know was not mean thay way they want to think , these kind of people annoy me



Posted by: Turd Ferguson

This just in - we are no longer able to use other words like fat, skinny, short, tall or ugly.



Posted by: Anonymous

Funny thing is, prolly none of these "retards" were watching Regis anyways, so they would never have known about it and prolly still don't know about it to hurt their feelings anyways!!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

She should think before she speaks. For those of you who think differently, shame on you! Things are too lax, people think they can say or do anything without being held accountable. I am sick of it THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK! For you who thinks people making jokes and comments on people ethnicity I don't think so.



Posted by: Anonymous

Damn I'm sick opf this woman and her phony girl-next-door style while she sluts around.



Posted by: Anonymous

This is ridiculous, she was talking about herself and If she wants to call herself retarded than she can be retarded, WHO CARES!!!!!!!!Only the people that have absolutely nothing important to do and hang on every celebrities word....They should apologize to her for making a big deal out of nothing.....



Posted by: Anonymous

"Do gooders" are going to destroy this once great country. We've become a country made up of pus*ies and apologists.



Posted by: Anonymous

How could she? Remember how pissed everyone got when you know who said it? And remember how cameron diaz reacts to matt dillons character saying it in something about mary- because its wrong. She is missing a SENSITIVITY CHIP to the population that word affects.



Posted by: Anonymous

Didn't President Obama do the same thing? In that context she was talking about herself.



Posted by: Anonymous

She is a freaking pot head and def NOT VERY INTELLIGENT HERSELF!!!!!!!!!She makes stupid comments all the time i changed channels as soon as she came of chelsey latley she i an idiot and she acts like a 60 year old woman with half a brain she is fnnnnnnnnnnnBORING just like all of her characters yaaaaaaaaaaaawnnnnnnnnnnn i am so over her please put this old bitch out to pasture already



Posted by: Anonymous

First Dr. Laura now the Chin.
Political corectness is a plague destroying America.
What next the "THOUGHT POLICE".



Posted by: Anonymous

Obozo say retarded and gets a pass from the press cause he is a n*gger.



Posted by: Anonymous

And yet 3:22 here you are reading stories about her and taking the time to comment. Stop pretending you change the channel. You probably tivo'd every TV appearance she did this week.

And the use of caps makes you seem crazy.



Posted by: Anonymous

HATE THIS HAG...AT LEAST SHE'S BEING HONEST WITH HERSELF AND CALLING HERSELF WHAT WE ALL KNEW FROM THE START..SHE'S A RETARD.



Posted by: CanadianCutie

I agree that that word should not be used negatively if used intentionally as that. She clearly wasn't looking to hurt anyone's feelings or harm anyone, it came out of her mouth without thinking. How many of us can say that's never happened to us? Americans are ridiculous. Get over yourselves and stop causing unnecessary drama. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Making her apologize is ridiculous.



Posted by: Anonymous

CANADIANS ARE JUST AS BAD



Posted by: Anonymous

Ugh who cares - she is soooo boring!!!!!!



Posted by: Anonymous

People who use the word retard need a dictionary or an education. Try using something original instead of some lame word of the moment.



Posted by: Anonymous

We need to round up all these PC trouble makers and throw them in a hole and fill it in.



Posted by: Sue England

Are they going to make all the people who laughed at her comment apologise too? Pathetic (sorry, is that offensive to all you other pathetic people out there?!)



Posted by: Anonymous

I bet that her apology includes the words "not cool," as in, "It was so not cool that I used that word." Let's face it, the woman has a very limited vocabulary. She can't help that she's so uneducated and inarticulate.



Posted by: Anonymous

Who's the chick in the strappy wedges? She's no retard!



Posted by: Anonymous

Oh, good heavens. Is this all that people have to get upset about?



Posted by: Anonymous

omg she said the R word, give me a break. We have all used it, it could mean many things like, dummy or loser, it was completely taken out of context. Why should they take it personally, it wasn't meant in any way as a personal insult to people with intellectual disabilities. We are all retards when it comes to a lot of things in our lives. I am prolly a retard writing this crap.



Posted by: Anonymous

Do people really think they will ever stop "retard" or "gay" from being used the way they are used now?

You can't control the way language evolves.



Posted by: Elroses

That is so uncool and who is missing a Sensitivity chip now? Oh well, if she wants to refer to herself as a retard, why is everyone so upset? At least the girl is being honest. she is just cnfirming what everyone else already knows. She is plain simple. No wonder he left her! she has no substance.



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