Women who are broads

Eli's wife, I suppose.

Why do you care? Aren't you gay? What's with all the straight incels populating this board recently?

Melania

Jennifer Lawrence

AOC for sure

Kathleen Turner

Rachel Ray

Cindy Adams

Joy Behar

Cher, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Bette Midler, AOC, Guilfoyle, etc. "Broads" are ballsy women who speak their minds, don't often apologize and don't care that they ruffle feathers and upset the status quo. There are lots of them, those are just a few that are the most well known.

Patty LuPone

Bette Midler

Sarah Palin

Christina Hendricks.

Madonna

Carole Cook

Patti Lupone x10

Out of those, r11, I'd only consider Patti (with an i not Patty with a y) a broad.

Kirstie Alley, Cybill Shepherd, Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Betty Broderick, Melissa McCarthy, Conchata Ferrell...

"Slang sense of "woman" is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967."

The word definitely has low-class origins, probably why I love it. I think the OG broad was Mae West. Best modern example: Liz Taylor. Post-modern example: Chelsea Handler. Another word for women that has negative origins but that I love because it also speaks to strength — battle axe.

me. I don't need you to agree

Miss Angie Dickinson.

Cloris Leachman.

Your mom.

Ethel Merman was most CERTAINLY a BROAD.

I just can’t think of anyone

Whoopi Goldberg

Wanda Sykes

Kellyanne, obviously.

Sandra Bernhard

Judy Gold

Susie Essman

Sharon Osborne. We need to define this word more. I would say to be a broad, not only must one not give a shit about how others see you, but also one must at times use provocation, if only for amusement. Many think a broad is just a strong woman, but she’s so much more. OG broads cursed, smoked, drank, slept around, this came out of the Roaring 20’s. Basically, a whore with a dirty mouth who could out drink the boys

Marisa Tomei's character in My Cousin Vinny.

RBG.

Shirley Maclaine

Ivana Trump

Sharon Osbourne

Rosie O'Donnell

DON'T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS!- Joan Crawford

Wow, what a bunch of terrible examples.

Jennifer Lawrence is a chick, not a broad.

Patti Lupone and Chelsea Handler are the only broads mentioned.

Angie Dickinson was probably a broad, but she's 90 years old.

Ethel Merman was a monster.

The rest of the old ladies mentioned here - from Bette Midler to Sharon Osbourne are just bitches. Broads like other women and have plenty of friends.

The first one I think of is indeed Miss Angie Dickinson — someone who can hang out and knock em back with the guys but also someone the guys thinks is hot.

She’s NOT someone who is still doing “girls brunches” at the age of 40 and she’s not someone who goes on and on about being a “girls girl” and “women supporting other women” (while she gossips about them begins their back).

Broads aren’t into the cliques and the bullshit.

Lauren Graham

Of today’s celebs: Adele is a broad.

Doesn't the term 'broad' have a bit of a bawdy connotation to it?

Christina Hendricks

Meghan McCain

Chrissy Metz

Kelly Clarkson

All in the broadest sense of the word, ie, wide.

Judi Dench

Bette Midler is the ultimate broad.

Helen Mirren

R6, r7 no, they’re just BROAD.

Well, I’ll give you that KT was in her heyday. Ray was and is just a cow.

Miss Angie Dickerson is a dame, not a broad.

Who’s a hussy?

ME, Rose!

Here you go. Get ready. This OLD Broad. Singing for Joe Biden. She sounds amazing and looks so strange. CHER.

Ethel Merman was an old bag

Am I?

How about...

Leah Remini is at least broad-adjacent.

I would posit that Divine Miss M-era Bette Midler was definitely a broad, if only onstage.

Excited for the next installment: "Broads who are dames."

Betty fuckin Bacall

A broad also has to have a good sense of humour, usually a raucous one, which many of the proposed examples listed above don't have.

Melania won't dish the dirt with the rest of those broads, that's why the lady is a tramp.

Sounds like you're caffeinated, R53.

Have some of that swill you shilled.

Lainie Kazan

Broads are ballsy women with big tits and a distinctly sexual vibe, but also a bit of a lower class vibe. It's kind of an outdated concept. I wouldn't call anyone a broad these days. There are definitely characters played by some of the actresses mentioned who were good examples of broads. But I wouldn't say any of the actresses themselves are actually broads.

Thelma Harper

Barbara Nichols

GaGa is broad-like. Bette Midler is broad.

I'm telling youze, Jennifer Lawrence is and plays broads.

Christine Baranski

Jane Fonda

Dolly Parton

Jane Fonda is a dilettante, lock jaw, humorless, man dependent, lecturing, sex toy. She's far from a broad. She tries to act like one NOW that her sexual value is zero. She's bawdy? No. A Broad. Hell no. She's been subservient and defined by men her whole life. Not a bad actress.

Sam Smith.

Sharon Stone

Elaine Stritch

Dorothy Loudon.

The veteran cast members of the Real Housewives of New York are all broads.

^ (not ramona) but otherwise true.

Gena Rowlands' character in Gloria -- now [italic]she[/italic] was a broad.

All women were considered "broads" back in the day (circa 1940s) except maybe nuns. Even your mother could be "an old broad".

More interesting was when was a woman a "dame"?

A "skirt" ("skoit') was a woman you were chasing. ("He's always chasin' dem skoits.")

I base my conclusions on a close reading of Guys and Dolls and of the whole corpus of The Bowery Boys.

Grace Adler Was a “Dizzy Dame” - Karen Walker was a “Right Broad.” ..... Olivia Benson SVU started out as a Tough Dame - now she is a a Tough Broad!

At one Olympics:

Are you going to see the broad jump?

Which broad?

Miley Cyrus

Cher

Andy Cohen

There is nothing like a dame.

I like a man from abroad.

Taylor Dayne

Adele

Kat Dennings

Kamala Harris

A broad has a certaim amount of savvy.

R11 Sara Palin is a tool by definition that makes her a "dumb broad" at best.

R17 I would say that Kirstie Alley is the epitome of a "dumb broad"

Eve Arden's Ida in "Mildred Pierce" is the textbook broad.

Study it before posting for full credit.

Pelosi is tough old broad adjacent.

She ain't no spring chicken. R87.

MARTHA STEWART

Bette Davis owns this thread.

Joan Rivers follows.

The maid who Ralph Kramden hired on The Honeymooners. She was a BROAD.

Half of you don't know what is meant by a "broad"

She's one swell dish.

I used to shop at Hubba Hubba’s in Chicago

Cybil Shepard

Broads are big hipped, husky voiced, can handle liquor, and hang out with the boys. Stop posting just any woman you like or wanna be. But yrs to cybil. Kathleen Turner. Divine.

Jennifer Tilly

Broad is a mid 20th century concept that happened somewhere between women getting the right to vote and the right to successfully sue for discrimination on the basis of sex (as it was called in the 1970s.) A broad was a lower class woman who has to make her own way in the world and was consequently tough and aggressive in ways that were considered unladylike. Joan Crawford and Susan Hayward specialized in broads. Bette Midler calling herself a broad was a retro affectation like singing “Lullaby of Broadway” or wearing sweetheart necklines. It was actually, as documented in “Gypsy,” a very rude thing to call someone.

Yes joan Susan and better are broads. Who said sam Smith lolz

"A broad was a lower class woman who has to make her own way in the world and was consequently tough and aggressive in ways that were considered unladylike"

Sorry, but no it wasn't. Broad was just a term for a woman.

Perhaps you are thinking of "tough broad", which is specific (like "dumb broad", "old broad", "rich broad", "good lookin' broad", or any other kind of broad (woman).

^^^ I forgot "high-class broad / classy broad".

Ellen Barkin

Cathy Moriarty

Whitney Houston

Nadia Comăneci

Miss Kay Lenz

I treasure my little British book "BROADS" by Ian and Elizabeth Cameron, published in 1969 by Studio Vista. Available on the used market.

The cover features Beatrice Kay in Sam Fuller's UNDERGROUND, USA (61). It's an encyclopedia of Broads.

Joy Behar...

Commando Melania can Laugh! Who knew? What a broad.

R53 - “ Betty fuckin Bacall”

Totally 💯 %

Get a load of this broad. Can you believe she posted this? Enjoy the comments....

Elton John...no wait, she's a Dame !

Other than broad, from old fashioned vocabulary, I like the term "dizzy bitch".

It's not a positive term but I love how it sounds.

‘Broad’ is a fantastic word.

Another one almost lost that I love, spat by a disgruntled housemate years ago about a rather free-wheeling guest: ‘slattern’.

Beverly Leslie

Karen Walker

The maid on “Two and a Half Men”

R113, I like the word 'moll' -- usually the girlfriend of a thug. Some broads could be molls, I guess.

Lisa Lampanelli

R113 and r117, you’re bringing some old school realness, I love it! Are you American or from some place else.

R119, American here -- I probably absorbed some of these words from my old-school dad and what I call his old-school east-coastisms, lol.

DIVINE

DL fave (literally, she’s loved here for whatever reason) Suzanne Pleshette.

Mariah Carey

r9 Joy Behar, exactly. And any liberal woman on The View. Whoopi and even Barbara Walters, though she covered it up.

Any outspoken and mildly brassy Italian or Jewish woman over a certain age.

Broads: Rachel Griffiths, Kelly Ripa, Mariska Hargitay, Cameron Diaz, Alison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Busy Phillips, Anna Faris, Drew Barrymore, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Elizabeth Banks

Broad adjacent: Maria Bello, Kate Winslet, Carla Gugino, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Chastain, Rosario Dawson, Patricia Clarkson, Amy Poehler, Tessa Thompson

Women who will definitely be broads once they hit 45: Katy Perry, Jennifer Lawrence, Adele, Amber Heard, Mila Kunis, Lindsay Lohan

Queen Latifah

Tiffany - a fat broad

One hundred and twenty-seven replies and not one mention of me...

I own this goddamned lousy thread!

I started working in this business when I was 12 years old and I had to kiss Ethel Merman's ass to get a lousy part in the Chorus...

JHC, how many fags do I have to fuck to get some respect?

R128- AGREED. No was more of a BROAD than Helen Lawson.

"When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll."

Dolls over broads any day!

Every soap opera matriarch is a broad.

Also Gemma Collins from The Only Way Is Essex.

CNN's Erin Burnett is all bourbon and hairspray.

I view the term "broad" positively, as opposed to "dame." A broad is both a man's woman and a woman's woman (aka, good friend). Can give and take with the best of'em. Has a sense of humor and maybe a hearty laugh to go with it.

Cher is a great broad.

Paul Newman used to say that Joanne W. was the last of the great broads.

Lorraine Bracco hands down!! Or up whichever you prefer. THE sexiest broad!!!

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Google BROAD

Do you mean.?

R17 [quote] the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967.

And in 1860s Australia 'slut' referred to female dogs

Betty White.

Kaitlyn Jenner.

Lucy Lawless. Can look great ululating in a leather bikini, and puts conservative Kevin Sorbo in his place in the Twittersphere:

Ellen Barkin

Lindsey Graham

Good example, r142!

Melina Mercuri.

Shelley Winters.

Camilla.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Camilla is not a broad, FFS r144! She’s Queen Consort Presumptive.

Definitely Don Lemon.

R145, Not mutually exclusive, Chuck! As you full well know!

Candy Crowley

Every woman who appeared on The Golden Girls, including the delinquent tweens.

Trisha Paytas.

One refers to oneself as a "broad."

Broads are harder to find nowadays. Many women want to be considered little girls forever. Understandable considering american societies' aggression towards women who don't present themselves as helpless and naive waifs.

Jane Krakowski

This could be under TRANS women who were BROADS- DIVINE

If I were a woman, I'd be a broad. An outrageous one. I KNOW I would.

I second Eve Arden, and raise you an Anna Magnani.

Under 60: I think Leah Remini is the ultimate modern day broad. Chelsea Handler for sure. Julie Klausner. Khloe Kardashian. Jenny McCarthy. Margaret Cho. Bethenny Frankel. Busy Phillips. Natasha Lyonne. Kathryn Hahn. Lisa Rinna.