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Vagina-friendly world


I have learned this expression from Jane Fonda’s new book called “Jane Fonda’s words of politics and passion” (The New Press).
Apparently she got this from Eve Ensler the playwright and actor of the “Vagina Monologues” fame. (The play has encircled the world, I have seen it performed in Hungarian in Budapest)
I have read the book cover to cover in two days. I often wished her speeches were avaible to ponder in print. It brought back to me the young times in 1972 when I met Jane at the Venice Women’s Center. She was very pregnant(with Vanessa) and I was in love for the first time with a woman. (Stayed together with her 17 years, still good friends)
Jane came to speak to us with her slide show from Viet Nam. We were all awed by this passionate actor who actually had brains and used them! Yes, she was Hollywood royalty, but at this time of her life she was fully awake to her responsibilities as a US citizen. She actually went to Viet Nam, her compassion was awakened and now she was telling us what she saw.
We were more interested in Feminism then Viet Nam which we all saw as a man-made tragedy. We believed if women led the world there would be far less violence, and lot more vagina-friendly times. What does that mean? A world where women are safe, for openers. Safe to live in their world, love and work, raise the kids. A Vagina-friendly world had no rape that seen as something “normal.” Instead, rape was a mind/soul sickness. In a vagina-friendly world we would lock up the mean guys, not torture women at rape trials with more abuse.
Masculinity would not rob men of their access to their feelings, and Femininity would not require women to give up their humanhood.
To my great pleasure, I am discovering sister Jane in our special position of Crones, post 60, in our third destiny. What a joy. Now she is more feminist then ever before and still anti-war and anti-oppression. But she got wisdom along the way, wisdom which she had little of when young, is now in balance with passion, which she always had in spades.
She is talking about the vagina-friendly males she knows and loves.
Their numbers are growing. She is raising hope levels for us all.
If Jane is with us, working with her wisdom and leadership, we are in good shape. Back in the seventies I was worried somebody would shoot our fair sister dead.. But no, she was born well, protected by her good spirits. Now she is more beautiful and more productive then ever before.
I followed her on TV promoting her movie “Georgia Rule” which I am going to today as my Sunday treat. She talked off the cuff on Larry King, she was hilarious on the Colbert show. She was well informed and spoke with power. I know her latest movie is not “On Golden Pond” which is what they want from her, those critics who have panned the movie. But they (the men in charge of reviews) just don’t want Jane to rebel against violence and rape and child abuse, because when this Amazon smites you, it’s the best battle you will ever see.

Posted by Z Budapest in at 9:14 PM |