Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
Jane Fonda och Lily Tomlin: Ett roligt firande av en livslång kvinnlig vänskap
Jane Fonda has had three extraordinary careers (so far): Oscar-winning actor, fitness guru, impassioned activist. Full bioLily Tomlin - Comedian and actor
Lily Tomlin has been honored by the Kennedy Center and awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- and she's still making vital, hilarious comedy. Full bio
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about female friendship a lot,
på detta med kvinnlig vänskap,
for a very long time, too.
väldigt länge också.
that I read about female friendship
när det gäller kvinnlig vänskap
a lot about someone,"
suger livet ur mig.
sucks the life out of me.
look for in a friend?
letar efter i en vän?
who has a sense of fun,
som har lite politik,
gnutta passion för planeten,
of passion for the planet,
och bryr sig om rättvisa,
has a sense of justice
göra utan mina väninnor.
without my women friends.
alltså finns jag.
therefore I am."
mina väninnor, dom -
my women friends. They --
dom gör mig smartare,
they make me smarter,
kan behöva ändra färdriktning.
be in need of course-correcting.
yngre än mig också.
a good deal younger than me, too.
LT: Tack tack.
LT: Thank you.
för att, du vet -
because listen, you know --
att leka med och lära ifrån
to play with and learn from
jag hamnar där fortare än dig.
I'll be there sooner than you.
att åldras samtidigt med.
parallel aging alongside me.
olika livserfarenheter,
different kinds of life's journeys,
uppsluppen och levande?
your friendships vital and alive?
ofta, det kan jag säga dig.
I'll tell you that.
jag kollar mina SMS.
I look through my texts
as quickly as possible,
författare, aktivister och skådespelare,
are writers, or activists, or actors,
of other descriptive phrases,
beskrivande fraser,
så fort som möjligt,
as soon as possible,
JF: Inte?
JF: No?
JF: Jag gillar emojis.
JF: I'm really into emojis.
och gratulationer,
and congratulations,
hur viktig vänskap är,
the importance of friendships,
att inte låta det gå för lång tid.
not let too much time go by.
skickar jag till mina vänner.
I send to my friends.
om kvinnor, kvinnlig vänskap.
about women, female friendships,
att se hur många böcker,
to see how many books,
has been done recently --
LT: Jag var tacksam.
LT: I was grateful.
för detta är ett till exempel
because this is another example
åtsidosatta, marginaliserade.
put aside, marginalized.
research på oss,
research done on us,
and you all will be interested in this.
och det här är intressant.
gjort en studie som visar
close female friendships
to be living much more vital, exciting --
ett mycket livligare, spännande -
part is they found --
and so conclusive --
och så avgörande -
is detrimental to your health,
är skadligt för din hälsa,
att vara överviktig.
because there's an additional thing.
för det var en sak till.
for years, decades --
were trying to understand stress,
försökte förstå stress,
what happens to women when we're stressed,
händer med kvinnor när vi är stressade,
that when we're stressed -- women,
vi är stressade - kvinnor,
stress-reducing hormone.
stressreducerande hormon.
when we're with our women friends.
vi är med våra väninnor.
why we live longer.
till varför vi lever längre.
because they don't have that.
eftersom de inte har det.
diminishes the effects of oxytocin.
minskar effekten av oxytocin.
and Dolly made "9 to 5" ...
och Dolly gjorde "9 till 5" ...
vi skrattade så mycket,
we laughed so much,
gemensamt och vi är så olika.
and we're so different.
from a poor town in Tennessee,
från en fattig stad i Tennessee,
så synkade som kvinnor,
at least a decade onto our lifespans.
åtminstone ett årtionde på våra liv.
crossed our legs a lot.
benen en hel del.
to our lives right now.
på våra liv just nu.
sent us both to read on female friendship
för att läsa om kvinnlig vänskap
Sister Joan Chittister,
mycket, syster Joan Chittister,
are not just a social act,
är inte bara en social handling,
spiritual to your lives?
you've known a long time,
som du känt en lång tid,
essence inside them,
an element of love in the relationship.
en del av kärlek i relationen.
and party friends,
friendships have ...
vänskaperna har...
because it's a heart opening, right?
ett hjärta som öppnas, eller hur?
with my intimate friends.
med mina närmaste vänner.
I'm so touched and inspired by them.
jag är rörd och inspirerad av dem.
is going to go soon.
er går bort snart.
Lily, which one are you talking about?
Lily, vem pratar du om?
talk about their friendships,
pratar om sin vänskap,
and women friendships?
a lot of empathy for men --
en hel del empati för män -
till att de dör tidigare.
are full disclosure, we go deep.
går fullt ut, vi är djupare.
this is something men don't do.
detta är något män inte gör.
have I asked you, "Am I doing OK?"
har jag frågat dig "Var det där ok?"
relationships as face-to-face,
relationer som öga mot öga.
are more side-by-side.
är mer sida vid sida.
men don't want to reveal their emotions,
vill män inte visa sina känslor,
conventional thought.
allmänna, vanliga tanken.
and watch a game or hit golf balls,
och se på en match eller slå golfbollar,
or hunting, or cars or have sex.
eller jakt, eller bilar eller ha sex.
it's a more manly behavior.
det är ett mer manligt beteende.
LT: They talk about sex.
LT: De talar om sex.
in their man cave to --
i sin mansgrotta att -
that I find very interesting --
är mycket intressant -
until relatively recently --
om detta förrän ganska nyligen -
as relational as women are.
relationsbenägna som kvinnor.
of newborn baby boys and girls,
nyfödda pojkar och flickor,
som flickorna,
just like the girls,
exchange of energy.
energiutbyte i en relation.
they could see the dismay on the child,
kunde de se bestörtningen på barnet,
as they grow older, does that change?
när de blir äldre, detta ändras?
to be emotional with someone is girly.
känslosam med någon är flickaktigt.
directions or express a need,
vägvisningar eller uttrycker ett behov,
raderar hans 'jag' ".
will erase his 'I'."
has always been kind of porous.
alltid har varit lite lös.
our masculinity to prove.
manlighet att bevisa.
LT: Jag vet vem Gloria Steinem är.
LT: I know who Gloria Steinem is.
men jag tycker det är en -
but I think it's a --
don't have our masculinity to prove.
inte någon manlighet att bevisa.
so inculcated in the culture
something different happen.
nånting förändras.
are like a renewable source of power.
som en förnybar energikälla.
about this subject.
spännande med detta ämne.
are just a hop to our sisterhood,
ett steg från vårt systerskap,
a very powerful force,
en mycket mäktig kraft,
som du sa, Jane,
växande demografin i världen,
demographic in the world,
så kan vi förändra världen.
we can change the world.
that we need to do --
the consumer standards.
konsumentstandarder.
need to consume less
buy things that are made locally,
köpa saker som tillverkas lokalt,
mat som odlas lokalt.
that's grown locally.
that need to get off the grid.
independent from fossil fuels.
oberoende av fossila bränslen.
and those bad guys --
without going back to the Stone Age.
utan att gå tillbaka till stenåldern.
just aren't quite there yet,
inte finns där riktigt ännu,
energy and doing just fine.
och det går jättebra.
wean ourselves from fossil fuel
oss från fossila bränslen
back in the Stone Age,
to use renewable energy,
använda förnybar energi,
and not drill --
och inte borrar -
in the Alberta tar sands --
and more jobs and more well-being,
fler jobb och mer välmående,
going to lead the way.
kommer att leda vägen.
to start a third-wave feminist movement
en tredje våg av den feministiska rörelsen
women we may never meet,
kvinnor vi kanske aldrig träffar,
should be between equals
borde vara mellan jämlikar
we had souls even, the Greeks.
vi hade själar, grekerna.
just how limited Aristotle was.
hur inskränkt Aristoteles var.
men do need women now.
behöver kvinnor.
the Equal Rights Amendment.
sedan slutet av andra världskriget
since the end of World War II
citizens of equal stature,
kvinnor till medborgare av lika resning,
inte bara kvinnor.
on how to do that.
på hur man gör det.
in different ways,
women can be friends --
kvinnor kan vara vänner -
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jane Fonda - Actor and activistJane Fonda has had three extraordinary careers (so far): Oscar-winning actor, fitness guru, impassioned activist.
Why you should listen
Jane Fonda is an actor, author, producer and activist supporting environmental issues, peace and female empowerment. She founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, and established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory. She cofounded the Women’s Media Center, and sits on the board of V-Day, a global effort to stop violence against women and girls.
Fonda's remarkable screen and stage career includes two Best Actress Oscars, an Emmy, a Tony Award nomination and an Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival. Offstage, she revolutionized the fitness industry in the 1980s with Jane Fonda’s Workout — the all-time top-grossing home video. She has written a best-selling memoir, My Life So Far, and Prime Time, a comprehensive guide to living life to the fullest.
Jane Fonda | Speaker | TED.com
Lily Tomlin - Comedian and actor
Lily Tomlin has been honored by the Kennedy Center and awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- and she's still making vital, hilarious comedy.
Why you should listen
Throughout her extraordinary career, Lily Tomlin has won seven Emmys; a Tony for her one-woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony for Best Actress; a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics' Circle Award for her one-woman performance in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a Grammy for her comedy album, This Is a Recording; and two Peabody Awards, the first for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël, and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid Closet. In 2003, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and in December 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC.
She made her film debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, and gave a generation-defining performance alongside Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in the workplace revenge comedy 9 to 5.
Lily Tomlin | Speaker | TED.com