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. | Don't get me wrong: I really like vaginas. But let's face it, most women don't keep their brains there. |
(oh, MAN! I *can't* WAIT to read THAT!)
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.