On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:56:16 -0600, USA  wrote:

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>The solution, she [Hanoi Jane] said, is for girls to realize it's
>society and not their own flaws that makes them feel anxious and
>inadequate.
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>Jane Fonda: Kerry Suffered From 'Wimp' Image 
>
>Newsmax ^ | 3/17/05
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>In more bad news for Sen. John Kerry, "Hanoi" Jane Fonda is once again
>stepping into the media spotlight, promoting her new book "My Life So
>Far" and explaining that Kerry lost the election because he came
>across as "a wimp" and a "girlie man."
>
>Fonda bankrolled Kerry's anti-war protests during the 1970s, and last
>year she tried to help him by registering as many women as possible in
>her "Vaginas Vote" campaign.
>
>In a preview of what's to come as her book tour hits the TV talk show
>circuit, Fonda discussed her life and times last month at the "Girls
>For A Change" conference held at Montana State University.
>
>She began by explaining that she'd spent the last five years working
>on her memoir, and insisted that her own life story is universal. Even
>someone who's wealthy, privileged, famous and white can be hurt by the
>hierarchy's rules in profound ways, Fonda explained.
>
>Before too long the former actress got around to the subject of
>Kerry's defeat.
>
>In quotes picked up by Bozeman, Montana's Daily Chronicle, she
>complained: "Men who show compassion or try to make peace are
>ridiculed as 'girlie men' or, like John Kerry, as wimps."
>
>It's all a part of the patriarchal society we live in, she said, where
>American boys learn as early as age 5 that they have to earn a place
>in the hierarchy by being "real men" - not sissies who express
>emotion.
>
>"We have to feel true empathy for boys," she urged.
"Males have the
>power, but at what cost."
>
>The former Hollywood radical urged girls to be more assertive, saying,
>"Get mad. It's not the way it has to be. Don't succumb, don't take it
>sitting down."
>
>The solution, she said, is for girls to realize it's society and not
>their own flaws that makes them feel anxious and inadequate.



Interestingly enough, I think that she was sued years ago for
discriminating against women in the business connected with her
workout video.

I don't remember how that lawsuit turned out.


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