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completely misinterpreted by the anti feminist right wing tabloids, and then people here jump on the bandwagon, just because they already found her irritating.
Come on, you dont have to like her, but surely you can see labling her some sort of paedo is completely OTT and undermining what paedophilia actually is.
I actually quite like Julie Burchill too. Not as much as greer though.
I wasn't saying she actually did
I think people see Greer as a publicity seeker (which she is now) and forget her importance in the 60s in publicising and promoting equality. Its the tragedy of more than one of the great figures that they don't die in their prime, but live onto to become a caricature of themselves.
There's a difference between being confident- which is good- and being a boring, repetitive self-aggrandizing old bat. Burchill, again, is the same, and its a fate that seems to await most tabloid journalists. The Hitchens brothers (especially Chris) have done it more than most.
Its interesting how one person saying something, can be interpreted so differently depending on what the listener wants to think.
And I also suppose it becomes a circle. I dislike her because she seems so far up her own backside she can lick her tonsils clean, which means that every time she opens her gob I think she's patronising and sanctimonious, etc etc.
I have a lot of time for a lot of feminists, Greer isn't one of them. She does raise some good points, and always has done, just not enough to ever be able to tolerate her. I always see her as the feminist equivalent of morons like Peter Tatchell.
I like the fact that even when I disagree with you often I can still see where youre coming from and get the feeling that its mutual. Your wife is the same. I think youll do well together.
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That was random:p
If everyone agreed it'd be boring.
That's possibly the nicest thing I've ever read on these boards.
Do women need to be cold academics to match up to men? Must we imitate them to sit on their level?
Shes anything BUT reactionary.
are we using the same definition of the word???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary
Are we talking about the same Germain Greer? At best she's late middle age and whilst I'd struggle to describe mytself as a fan she's never struck me as reactionary or bigotted? The opposite in fact.
Seconded. Made me smile in a happy and wistful kind of way. Cheers. :thumb:
It was a pleasant thing to say. Most people just call me a twat
Indeed...she suffers from a seriously closed mind and an even worse chip on her shoulder.
I remember watching her on BBC News 24, think it was Hardtalk, she was discussing Australian national identity...can't say I was very impressed at all.
Really? I don't know many people who are threatened by intelligent or assertive women - unless, of course, they are a certain type of self-proclaimed feminist. Something which carries with it some very undesirable characteristics/attitudes in the view of men.