Friday Feminist Fuck YEAH: Jane Fonda

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This week we would like to give a big old Feminist Fuck Yeah to none other than Jane Fonda. Thanks to the Women’s Media Center I had the exciting experience of talking with Ms. Fonda on the phone last week.
I gotta be honest, I was pretty nervous about the call. For starters, I’ve had more than one encounter with a famous feminist that left me feeling disappointed. Too many of my heroes on paper have turned out to be less than heroic in person.
Number two, she’s Jane Fonda. The scissor kicker and leotard wearer, the star of Klute, Barbarella, and Nine to Five, the protestor of Vietnam, the friend of V Day and Eve Ensler, the Stephen Colbert kisser, the woman who said cunt on the Today Show. All that history made little old me a little nervous.
But I have to tell you, as soon as we started chatting, my nervousness melted away. Jane is a bonafide activist, a gentle, questioning soul, someone who doesn’t need to know everything and, therefore, seems ten times more wise. We talked about blogging (yes, Jane Fonda reads feministing from time to time), activism, writing, politics, and much more. Jane is still searching, still questioning, and in the final stages of a new book that is sure to change the way we think about aging and activism.
So this week, I give a fierce Feminist Fuck Yeah to Jane. Thanks for doing the rarest and most important of things–walking your talk.

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