We’ve never been Jane Fonda’s biggest fan—fine, she’s a proven, powerhouse actress, granted. But my personal taste isn’t the point. What absolutely **INFURIATES** me is the decades-long, wilfully ignorant, bad-faith hammering she gets over that **”Hanoi Jane”** label.

Are you people intellectually bankrupt? Have you no capacity for context, for growth, for **basic human understanding**? The incident has been dissected, explained, and lamented by *herself* more times than anyone can count. Yet you cling to it like a security blanket, using it to drown out her entire **lifelong body of work**—a relentless, documented fight for the empowerment of American people, for human rights, for environmental justice!

What is your **actual problem** with her? Is it that she makes too much sense on the issues that actually matter? Is it that she speaks with conviction backed by decades of activism, while you’re over here taking moral and intellectual cues from **sorry for the cliché, but truly dumb blondes** and that *one* who’s tangled up with a Trump son? *That’s* your credible source? *That’s* who gets a pass?

It exposes the whole pathetic game. You’re not outraged by a mistake made in a complex, wartime moment over fifty years ago. You’re threatened by a woman of substance who never stopped using her voice for others. So you trash her. You reduce her. You fossilize her in one framed moment because engaging with her actual arguments would require something you seem to have forgotten you possess: **A BRAIN.**

**Do you even know how to use it anymore? Or is it just a decorative organ, gathering dust while you parrot lazy, decades-old smears?** Get a grip. Do better. It’s embarrassing