{"id":207,"date":"2025-09-11T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/11\/lucille-ball-calls-out-host-ex1\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:36:00","slug":"lucille-ball-calls-out-host-ex1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/11\/lucille-ball-calls-out-host-ex1\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the tense moment Lucille Ball tells a host to take his hands off female audience members"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to her daughter, Lucille Ball never considered herself a feminist,<\/a> but there’s no question she blazed many a trail for women. A working mother in real life, she depicted issues facing housewives with her brilliant television comedy<\/a> and became the first female studio head in Hollywood. She broke glass ceilings but wasn’t particularly outspoken about women’s rights<\/a>. In fact, in a 1980 interview with “People<\/a>,”<\/em> she said, \u201cThey can use my name for equal rights, but I don\u2019t get out there and raise hell because I\u2019ve been so liberated, I have nothing to squawk about.\u201d<\/p>

Ball empowered women by example\u2014and by speaking her mind. Carol Burnett shared a story on PBS<\/a> about how Ball was unhappy with a script for her new show, but women<\/a> at that time didn’t raise concerns about such things. Men could express criticism and demand changes, but women simply didn’t. Ball did\u2014and firmly\u2014despite being non-confrontational by nature. Later she told Burnett, “Kid, that’s when they put the ‘s’ at the end of my name.”<\/p>

A video<\/a> has been circulating on social media showing Ball’s no-nonsense way of speaking up when she felt the need to, and people are gushing over it.<\/strong><\/p>


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In 1978, Ball participated in a Q & A session with UCLA theater arts students<\/a> on the television program “America Alive!” The viral clip shows Ball repeatedly telling one of the hosts, David Sheehan, to take his hands off of female audience members when they were asking a question.<\/p>

“Will you take your hands off, David?” she says as he introduces one young woman. “Take your hands off of her,” she says again as he places his hand on the shoulder of another. “David, would you take your hands away?” she says as he places his hands on another woman in a sparkly gold dress. <\/p>

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