Megyn Kelly finally got canned two weeks ago, with lottery money for a golden parachute, after defending the use of blackface as a Halloween costume and claiming that it used to be fine when she was a kid (NO). Prior to that she’d shown her racist ass several times along with being awful at her job. Remember when she asked Jane Fonda, in a joint interview with Robert Redford, about her plastic surgery and got shot down? That was bad enough, but instead of owning up to doing a lousy interview or just letting it slide, Megyn later attacked Jane personally by bringing up Jane’s activism from the 60s. Megyn sucked at her ridiculously high paid job and NBC had promoted white mediocrity yet again. Well Jane has some thoughts about Megyn. She was asked in an ET red carpet interview about Megyn’s firing and she was surprisingly nice. From just the quotes I read I thought it might be shade. It still might be, Jane is a fabulous actress, but in the video Jane sells it like she really thought Megyn deserved a chance. SHE GOT SO MANY CHANCES. Sorry there is a lot of coffee and rage inside me.

Speaking on the red carpet at Thursday’s Women’s Media Awards, Fonda said she felt “badly” for Kelly, who was fired by NBC last week after defending blackface Halloween costumes on “Megyn Kelly Today.”

“I wanted her to make it ― I did,” the “Grace and Frankie” star told “Entertainment Tonight.” “That’s always how everyone learns ― through making mistakes. It’s through failure that we grow and learn. I know that’s been true for me, and I think it is for everybody…”

Also in her red carpet interview, the Oscar winner cited America’s political climate as a reason more women should be “telling the stories” in the media industry.

“A lot of what’s happening is against women. We experience and understand things differently than men, not necessarily better or worse, just differently,” Fonda said. “If our narrative isn’t told from our point of view, then men and women are robbed of half of the narrative.”

[From Huffington Post]

Well I don’t agree with Jane for once. NBC knew what they were getting into with “Santa is white” Megyn and I think they only fired her once they saw the backlash. I also don’t think we should defend white women when they do racist things. It’s unclear if that’s what Jane is doing here, some of the video was cut and maybe there was a clear transition to her comments on women not getting chances and she’s not referring to Megyn at all. (I’m giving her a break because she’s been an ally to WOC in the past. This could be too generous though. So many people are showing their asses lately.) It’s also possible Jane is talking about women in relation to the 9 to 5 remake as she mentioned that later in the interview clip. She said that she’s waiting for the new script.

Here’s the clip. ET Online has a write up too and it’s about the same as Huffpo’s.

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