Jane Said What? Fonda’s Plan for Fighting Climate Change is Itself a Natural Disaster
Jane Fonda is, in so many ways, a woman to admire. A key force in pivotal women’s movements that include One Billion Rising and The Women’s March, and in organizations that include The Women’s Media Center. Recently inducted into the National Women’s History Museum, this legendary actress and activist also never fails to deliver flawless portrayals of strong women on film, everyone from Nora in A Doll’s House to Judy Bernly in 9 to 5.
But sometimes, even she sticks her high heel in it. And girl, did she ever last week.
In an interview with Vice, Fonda revealed a most unique (and even more alarming) plan to deal with the issue of climate change; one that involved calling upon a group of conventionally glamorous environmental experts to walk into the Oval Office at the White House and bow down before an accused sex offender and beg for his favor.
“I got this idea that you know, maybe if I went into his office with several extremely attractive, very, very smart women who know and care about the climate, and a few scientists, and maybe if we got on our knees, and we said to him, ‘Donald, you will be the global hero for all-time if you do what’s right about [the climate],” Fonda said.
Now let’s take a moment to unpack this hideous travesty of an idea. Ms. Fonda actually planned to make an ecofriendly Charlie’s Sustainable Angels team of super cute ecoscientists and activists and lead them like lemmings into the sea — or, more specifically, into the office of a man who faces at least 20 detailed accusations of sexual assault.
Aside from putting these women in harm’s way (and simultaneously discounting the opinion of any climate expert that fails to liken Pamela Anderson), this plan — if enacted — would send an extremely dangerous message to the young women of this nation; basically relaying the message that — when attaining any goal or objective in life — seduction and feminine wiles count for more than strength and grit.
See Gals, if only the Suffragettes, Harriet Tubman, or any of the other historical revolutionaries had worn a little bit of extra lipstick and a shorter skirt, falling to their knees before the men denying them their rights, they would have gotten what they wanted so much faster! And just to show us how it’s done, perhaps Fonda and Co. should do a big remake of 9 to 5, with Judy, Violet and Doralee falling to their knees before their egotistical sexist bigot of a boss, Mr. Hart, and begging him for the basic human rights of equal pay and dignity.
Jane Fonda, I — in the words of your magnificent friend Dolly Partonwill always love you — as an actress, an activist and a role model. So consider this an act of tough love when I tell you to get your head out of your famously aerobicized ass and stop spouting this self-defeating nonsense. Look to the example of your current idol, environmental activist Greta Thunberg, and don’t bow down before Donald Trump.
Stand up, pin him with a Greta Glare, and fight like hell — before our planet goes there.
