Jane Fonda made headlines last fall for deftly feigning indignation when Megyn Kelly asked the actress why she once said she wasn’t proud to admit to having plastic surgery.

Like trained seals, many in the media applauded Fonda’s icy response – “We really want to talk about that now?” – as some sort of feminist statement from an actress who refused to be demeaned by questions about her looks, rather than questions about her work.