Stars mark women's day in India (Hanoi Fonda Alert- former-star, that is)

BBC ^

[Peter J. Huss]

Stars mark women's day in India

Fonda (left) said violence affected women all over the world Actresses Jane Fonda and Marisa Tomei marked International Women's Day by staging a performance of The Vagina Monologues in India. The show was set up by the V-Day Foundation, a charity run by Monologues author Eve Ensler which raises awareness of violence against women.

Indian and Pakistani actresses joined the show in Bombay, also called Mumbai.

"Violence comes in many forms and affects women all over the world," Fonda said after the performance.

Fonda, 66, said she had had to take a back seat in each of her three marriages.

"Behind the closed doors of my marriage, I would give up all my power. I would silence my own voice to be accepted," she said.

[Peter J. Huss]

MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO HER HAND!

[RunningJoke]

"Fonda, 66, said she had had to take a back seat in each of her three marriages. "Behind the closed doors of my marriage, I would give up all my power. I would silence my own voice to be accepted," she said."

Jane has always been a victim. Poor thing, it's always someone else's fault. Naiveté in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

[stanz]

Why doesn't she just take a good dose of Kaopectate and shut up?
"Vagina Monologues" is the perfect setting for her acting abilities right now.

[marktuoni]

I think I've seen this thread somewhere before...

[weegee]

"ranging from a communist holiday to a U.N.-sponsored event" - What's new???

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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womensday1.html


International Women's Day
March 8th commemorates women's rights and peace

by Borgna Brunner

In its various incarnations, ranging from a communist holiday to a U.N.-sponsored event, International Women's Day has been celebrated for almost 90 years.

Inspired by an American commemoration of working women, the German socialist Klara Zetkin organized International Women's Day (IWD) in 1911. On March 19, socialists from Germany, Austria, Denmark and other European countries held strikes and marches. Russian revolutionary and feminist Aleksandra Kollontai, who helped organize the event, described it as "one seething trembling sea of women."


Womens Rights and Peace


As the nascent annual event developed, it took on the cause of peace as well as women's rights. In 1915, Zetkin organized a demonstration in Bern, Switzerland, to urge the end of World War I. Women on both sides of the war turned out.

Women and the February Revolution


Both Zetkin and Kollontai took part in the most famous International Women's Day—the March 8, 1917, strike "for bread and peace" led by Russian women in St. Petersburg. The IWD strike merged with riots that had spread through the city between March 8–12. The February Revolution, as it became known, forced the Czar Nicholas IIto abdicate. (Russia switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1918, which moved the dates of the February revolution [Feb. 24–28, old style] to March.)


The "Heroic Woman Worker," Soviet Style


Kollontai, a minister in the first Soviet government, persuaded Lenin to make March 8 an official communist holiday. During the Soviet period, the holiday celebrated "the heroic woman worker." Today it is still a Russian holiday—celebrated in the fashion of Mother's Day with flowers or breakfast in bed—in which men show appreciation for the women in their lives.


International Women's Day in the United States


IWD was commemorated in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s, but then dwindled. It was revived during the women's movement in the 1960s, but without its socialist associations. In 1975, the U.N. began sponsoring International Women's Day

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Sounds to me like it STILL has its socialist associations. It's just that the left lies about them in America.

[RedMonqey]

Fonda, 66, said she had had to take a back seat in each of her three marriages.

"Behind the closed doors of my marriage, I would give up all my power. I would silence my own voice to be accepted," she said.

And yet You present yourself as a feinist model for other women to follow? Tsk,tsk, tsk. (wagging finger at fonda)

[freekitty]

Nutcase.