Jane Fonda in the News

	posted by Scott on Saturday March 03, @04:29PM from the news dept.
	Jim Castelli submitted this link from the Boston Globe and writes, "Jane Fonda continues the egocentric ways that have endeared her to millions of men since the Vietnam War. Contributing $12.5 million dollars to Harvard to create a center on gender education, Ms. Fonda asserts that for too long "she had fashioned her opinions and image to make men happy" because of her low self esteem. Anyone who remembers "Hanoi Jane" from the Vietnam War will have a difficult time accepting her argument. Anyone who has the temerity to go to North Vietam during the height of the Vietnam War and essentially thumb her nose at her country and all the men who were dying in Vietnam is not motivated by a desire to please men. Ms. Fonda now as always suffers from an ego that expects men to worship her beauty and her opinions without question. From Barbarella, to Vietnam, to her fitness videos, to her marriage to Ted Turner, Ms Fonda suffers not from low self esteem but from an exagerrated view of her own importance."

	Source: The Boston Globe [newspaper] Title: Making over an image Author: Patrick Healy Date: March 3, 2001

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More on Hanoi jane (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Saturday March 03, @04:57PM EST (#1) To get the full lowdown on what "hanoi jane" did, cut and paste this link below: http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/fonda.htm Adam H

Where Fonda got the dough (Score:1) by Tom Campbell (campbelt@NOSPAMusa.net) on Sunday March 04, @09:45AM EST (#2) (User #21 Info) If you want irony, it is here. This month's Vogue magazine has an interview with Hanoi Jane (thought no questions about Vietnam were asked) in which she states "Thank God and Ted that I don't have to make movies". Rather than speak in her own voice and earn her own money, she whines about her dependence on men while spending Ted Turner's money to promote the ideas of Carol Gilligan. Not that Fonda couldn't make the big bucks on her own if she decided to work again, as she proved in the past with her box office appeal and exercise videos. She is typical of American feminism: a spoiled upper class woman who blames everyone but herself for her troubles, and who never had to accept responsibility for her actions. If she is serious about what she says, she should stop spending Ted Turner's money, and pledge not to take another dime from him. Tom Campbell

Hanoi Jane and Ted's Money (Score:1) by frank h on Sunday March 04, @10:08AM EST (#3) (User #141 Info) The so-very-frustrating thing about this is not what Fonda did, but the fact that so many mens' money is going to support Gilligan and her ilk. If men make all the money, how come the women's movement is so well finded? (he asked rhetorically)

More hatred from Jane.... (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday March 09, @01:22PM EST (#4) "Fonda said she recently cried much of the way through a reading of ''In a Different Voice.'' She said she had an epiphany after finishing Gilligan's book: For too long she had fashioned her opinions and her image to make men happy." Make men happy? Was she "making men happy" when she aimed anti-aircraft guns into the Vietnam Skies pretending to shoot down American soldiers? What a dumb bitch!

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