Germaine Greer
As always, it’s tempting to blame everything on Ms Antithesis-of-“Germane” Greer.
Bloody Germaine. Doesn’t she realise there are enough misogynists taking pot shots at Julia Gillard without women’s libbers joining the mob?
Stubborn Germaine. When will she accept that Australia’s “stupid” media isn’t “making” her sound crazy by quoting her out of context; it’s simply quoting her?
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Lots of young women revere Germaine Greer for all that she has achieved in the name of the women’s rights movement.
Lately, many of these same young women have been looking to Greer, and others of her ilk, for a fresh approach to the women’s movement of the future. For a new path that feels right in our new world where, for many of us, times have changed. A new feminism, if you like.
Last night’s Q and A performance proved one thing: Greer’s no longer our woman. After a few minutes of solid and complimentary assessment of Gillard’s struggle for leadership, and policy initiatives, Greer took an extraordinarily shallow, un-sophisticated and un-intelligent shot at the size of the PM’s backside and the poor cut of her jacket.
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Marion says:
The woman has the big aggressive ego and it’s gone into her arse! She’s a monster who stabbed the previous monster prime minister Kevin Rudd in the back. That’s probably what this is all about Read more »
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I. says:
All your quotes are taken out of context. I can only presume you are a male woman hater with a toxic view on life. Read more »
I love men. Truly, I adore them: how they smell, the timbre of their voices, the sexiness of their forearms, their almost universal belief that life is better if you’re laughing along to it.
Perhaps I’ve been blessed with good ones: an ex-husband I’d happily still hug, a current husband who brings me to tears of laughter, a stepfather who treats my mum like gold, and many friends who’d be there in spades if my world fell to pieces.
That’s why I became a bit peeved recently when I went along to a feminist forum featuring trailblazers such as Germaine Greer and Naomi Wolf, and found some of them still peddling the man-hating schtick.
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Joan Bennett says:
So the little derogatory or sexual innuendos slip past your radar? I’ve worked with many men over the past 20 years (old, young, different races, religions or no religion) and the vast majority have disappointed me. Why do they think it’s okay to use the women they work with to… Read more »
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Vicki PS says:
Oh god, stop it, stop it, PJ, before I rip my own gallbladder out with a rusty Victa blade! Let me go back to the Emerald City, where my dad used to thrash me with a stick for my own good! To where a mother of seven told me in… Read more »
I don’t think Germaine Greer would like my friends.
The woman who personifies the feminist movement of the 70s and makes every wife willing to iron her husband’s shirts feel like a feminist-traitor would certainly frown on my little circle of Mummy-friends.
Especially on International Women’s Day.
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AliceC says:
@Jugg How can you fight for something to be created? Who are you fighting against if you’re creating something yourself? @Squeeze Ok, so the vote was granted to the common man after they fought for it. My question is why did they only fight for common man to get the… Read more »
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Squeeze the Middle says:
papachango. Isn’t Greer just repeating: I may not agree with what you’re saying but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it? Firstly: define mental illness? Secondly: even just the title of her book “The Female Eunuch” says it all. I.e. there are fulfiling alternatives to being… Read more »
Not since Carrie Bradshaw tapped away at her laptop has a column started with a dafter question, but here goes: Could Germaine Greer be single-handedly responsible for the complete destruction of a society and its culture?
And not just any old society, the one that has exported its language, manners and mores to the rest of the world more than any other. The British.
As ridiculous as it sounds, our expat Sheila-in-chief has been accused of bringing Britain to its knees by one of the country’s most widely-read commentators.
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John Dark says:
“No fault” divorce and the diminution of the idea of individuals responsibility for their actions and the resulting consequences has destroyed western culture. Germaine Greer is just a daft old bat who may have had something interesting and relevant to say, once upon a time ... Read more »
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stephen says:
Yes dear. Yes dear. Yes dear…etc. Read more »
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