What is a broad? And please give examples

Miss Ava Gardner

See this.

Joan Collins

Lauren Bacall

Joan Crawford

Bette Davis

Jennifer Coolidge

Mae West

Sophie is the quintessential broad to me.

Ethel Merman

I understand the question; nonetheless, I refuse to answer it.

Patti lupone

Carole Cook

Lucille Bluth (the character)

Judge Judy

Bette Midler

According to film crews Jean Harlow was their favorite broad.

Katy Mixon. She’s a big-boned southern gal and they often are bawdy types.

Jean Harlow was a baby.

Ann Miller

A tough woman who can go toe to toe with any man and not give an inch, especially in arenas traditionally dominated by men, but don’t turn into men.

I have a feeling Jessica Lange has some solid broad to offer her menfolk. She seems both to trade on it and to withhold a bit of it from her audiences at the same time. Which is almost a disqualifier because a broad should always damn the torpedoes and go full speed ahead.

According to the film crews that baby was a broad in the best sense. Cursed like a sailor, drank and smoked and exchanged filthy jokes with them.

Lauren Hutton

Florence King told the story of a proper Southern dinner party where one of the inebriated guests whispered to the hostess, "Honey, I could use a little pussy."

"Hell, I could too," the proper lady replied. "Mine's as big as a barrel at my age."

That seems like a broad's behavior.

Actually it was “Mine’s as big as a bucket!”

A contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Taylor

I would consider Natasha Lyonne and Julie Klausner modern day broads.

I remember an earlier broad thread where someone said Madonna should be one, but isn’t. I’d have to agree.

Elaine Stritch.

Ahem,

OP, I think you nailed the description perfectly. I love a broad. I'd love to know your description of a dame. Are dame's more glamorous and feminine?

Scientology seems to attract them, for some reason. Kirstie Alley. Michelle Stafford. Leah Remini.

My two favorite:

Constance Ford

Eve Arden

[quote]OP, I think you nailed the description perfectly. I love a broad. I'd love to know your description of a dame. Are dame's more glamorous and feminine?

I think a broad could carry off a polyester pantsuit. A dame probably involves some jewelry, even if it's costume.

Yeah +1 to R29. They don’t come much brassier or brooklyner. In fact, I think there’s a pencil drawing of Helen Lawson beside the definition of “broad” in Webster’s Dictionary

I believe that was me, R27. A broad must have a sense of humor about herself, of which Madge has none. She also has to be a girl's girl as much as she can throw down with the boys. I would not consider women who hate other women to be broads, which means I would also not include Joan Crawford in this list. Because women who hate other women also secretly hate themselves.

diva ≠ broad

Nailed it R31. Leah Remini is a classic broad.

Sarah Ferguson

The Queen Mother

Barbara Stanwyck

Carole Lombard

Jaye P. Morgan

Lucy

Nancy Walker

I tried the search for the last “What Makes a Broad” thread but had no luck.

JoAnne Worley

Rose Marie

Fictitious but Flo on Alice.

Angie Dickinson

YES! Absolutely. Good one R45

Phyllis Diller?

Florence Henderson Angie Dickinson Patricia Neal Martha Raye Betty Grable

Ann-Margret

Pam Grier

Susan Hayward

She’s too young now, but I could see Elizabeth Gillies becoming one when she’s older.

Late '70s TV taught my young self that "broad" was what criminals called women.

R32: Eve Arden

The Lady Bunny, Varla Jean Merman and now forgotten Hapi Phace

Divine was the ultimate broad

Big Ang

What was Humphrey Bogart really saying when he called Bacall “a real Joe”?

Shelley Winters in "A Patch of Blue" was a real broad!

Agnes Moorehead

R42 Is this the thread you're thinking about?

Subject is: Women who are broads.

Suzanne Pleshette

Allison Janney

R12, Judge Judy is not a broad; she's just a fucking bitch.

R60, Kathleen Turner is a good one from that old thread.

FatCubeFrau, are you a broad?

A broad is a derogatory term for a woman.

I'm 50!

Yvonne De Carlo

Sally Spectra and her portrayer, Darlene Conley

Too many of the women names are borderline dykes.

*named

Shirley MacLaine

R70 that is completely allowed

Hannah Waddingham.

Betty Grable.

Niecy Nash

Cybill Shepherd

Kate Mulgrew

Broad Royalty: Carrie Fisher 👸🏼

Penny Marshall closes the thread

"Were you abroad last year?"

"No, and I never will be."

[quote]Too many of the women names are borderline dykes.

Are you kidding? With the exception of Penny Marshall, I can see all of them wanting to be banged by men, although they’d probably complain loudly to their friends later if the sex was bad.

R54 R55 Drag queens cannot be broads.

Divine was broad, just not “a” broad.

The real Opal Gardner

Amanda Woodward- Melrose Place.

R65, I'm trying hard to be a broad. I love a real broad. Like Shelley Winters and Bette Davis. Something to aspire to!

I don’t see Bette Davis as a broad. Not at all.

R81. No, I’m not kidding. Kathleen Turner and Suzanne Pleshette, with their deep voices? Nancy Walker, Rose Marie? Constance Ford (she actually was gay, wasn’t she?)...Eve Arden...Ethel Merman...Elaine Stritch? They all have dykey aspects.

Charlton Heston called Barbara Stanwyck a broad once in a show as a compliment. She loved it.

Broad is a sexist term.

OP, stop trying to make broad happen. You’ve done this a million times. Enough.

Today: Patti LuPone, Helena Bonham Carter, Salma Hayek, Megan Mullally (and her character Karen Walker), Whoopi Goldberg

Yesteryear: Carole Lombard, Lucille Ball, Mercedes McCambridge, Rosalind Russell, Bette Davis

Maybe two of the DL'ers have ever heard of her, but Roller Derby's Ann Calvello was a real broad in the best sense of the word.