Media Watch:
Boston Globe Signals Importance to Feminists of Harvard's Prof. Gilligan and Jane Fonda's Money

Harvard's inaction on gift miffs Fonda, sources say - Boston Globe

MassNews Staff
June 7, 2002

The Boston Globe yesterday signaled the importance to feminists of Harvard's Prof. Carol Gilligan and the $12.5 million that Jane Fonda gave to her last year.

It ran a story on its front page that Fonda was "miffed" because her money hasn't been spent yet. It was an obvious attempt by the newspaper to pressure Harvard.

The story was clearly an Alex Beam column which had been changed to a front page news story because of its unusual importance to the feminist newspaper.

Earlier this year, the Globe was successful in bringing Harvard to its knees by successfully blackmailing the new President of the university, Lawrence H. Summers, into endorsing quotas and affirmative action. It accomplished this by publishing nine major pieces against Harvard in two weeks.

It is apparently flexing its power again.

The newspaper revealed in yesterday's story that, "[Gilligan] has never been popular on the Harvard campus, and the field of gender studies is regarded with suspicion by some academics."

It's no wonder that Gilligan is "regarded with suspicion" because she is the woman at Harvard's School of Education who reported dishonestly in the early 1990s that the public schools of the country were "shortchanging girls," as reported by Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers in her bestseller, The War Against Boys.

Prof. Sommers said that Gilligan's research was either non-existent or "riddled with errors."

So it would be no surprise that many "academics" are disturbed at such obvious cheating going on by a faculty member.

Even the Globe reported last year, when Fonda's gift was first announced, that many thought it strange that Gilligan was leaving Harvard and going to New York just when many legitimate sources were finally demanding to see the research data about her many remarkable claims about boys and girls.

But Harvard's acting Education School Dean has assured the Globe not to worry. "The search is quite alive, and we are pleased at how it is proceeding. We wouldn't take the money if we weren't committed to the idea of a gender center."

They've apparently learned that they must keep the powerful Globe at bay. And they know how important it is to the Globe that the lies about boys and girls keep going out across the country.

How Fonda Made Her $12.5 Million

Jane Fonda is the woman who became famous and rich by posing naked to attract men back when few women would do so.

She now says that if she could, she would change her strip-tease which opened a movie in 1968 when she was 31-years-old. She says she did the tease only as a result of what the Globe called, her "low self-esteem and an ingrained belief that she should please the men in her life."

This caused many to wonder at what age does Fonda take full responsibility for her acts? She wasn't responsible at age 31? Now that she is too old to play a sex-kitten, she blames it all on someone else -- men. But didn't she enjoy it when she could still play the role?

What of her traitorous trip to Vietnam when teen-age boys, much younger than she, with an average age of 19, were dying in order to protect the mothers and children of America? They had been drafted out of their homes and ordered there by the liberal politicians supported by Fonda and her rich father. It was not Eisenhower, Nixon or Reagan who sent them there.

It was truly a war of boys. Is she now saying that 19-year-old boys are more responsible than a 31-year-old woman?