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Germaine Greer nailing it.

68 replies

sashh · 11/03/2023 10:44

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MavisMcMinty · 11/03/2023 20:39

Love that, @WomenCantBeBulliedOutOfResistance - is it your work?

WomenCantBeBulliedOutOfResistance · 11/03/2023 20:28

Female

Is not sugar and spice

And all things nice

Nor lipstick and dresses

And long curled tresses

Not sexy, not demure,

Not pink, not pure

Not giggles, not weeping

Nor fucking housekeeping

Not feminine

Despite all the din

Female

Is girl and is woman

A fully-fledged human

Whose brain and

Personality

Matter more than

Her body -
Which is, merely

A vessel of life

And pleasure, pain, strife

From which blood or milk can leak

Even its hair up for critique

From which she can't exit

And often a target

To abuse, censor, control

Reduced to breasts and a hole

Whatever her choices

Whatever she voices.

Non-females could not ever know

The journey to womanhood, no.

Deadringer · 11/03/2023 18:53

Such a clever woman. Just a thought inspired by GG saying that she was often admonished for not being ladylike enough, maybe trans women would like to use the term 'lady'. Its nice and feminine sounding and most women don't seem to really care for it, so it's up for grabs so to speak?

mach2 · 11/03/2023 18:42

I love that clip - no messing about.

Cleebope2 · 11/03/2023 18:40

Long live Germaine!

SharonEllis · 11/03/2023 18:39

Perfect. She's a legend.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 11/03/2023 18:22

mach2 · 11/03/2023 18:02

In 2021 Greer had returned to Australia to sell her home and put herself into aged care [wiki]

Ah, shame. Hope it's a kind place and that she's still bolshy.

She owned a wonderful house in Essex that she sold some years ago as it was too much for her to manage.

mach2 · 11/03/2023 18:02

In 2021 Greer had returned to Australia to sell her home and put herself into aged care [wiki]

Ah, shame. Hope it's a kind place and that she's still bolshy.

SerendipityJane · 11/03/2023 17:53

51%. Surely that gives a right to trample all over the 49% losers ?

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 11/03/2023 17:41

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Darhon · 11/03/2023 17:32

Krishnan just can’t interject. She has a fabulous mind. She massively ignited the second wave in the U.K.

Verite1 · 11/03/2023 17:22

That was a fantastic listen

determinedtomakethiswork · 11/03/2023 17:17

She is absolutely fantastic and always has been. Completely right too about how middle-aged and older women are demonised.

nepeta · 11/03/2023 17:13

Her book on women in art is still worth reading! Partly because it was well researched, but mostly because the problems she outlines have not been entirely solved.

Aphrathestorm · 11/03/2023 17:06

Love her.

RestingMurderousFace · 11/03/2023 16:50

Going to be one hell of a crater left behind when she departs this realm.

Fairislefandango · 11/03/2023 16:46

Fantastic- she is so clear and fearless.

AggieTop · 11/03/2023 16:40

Adding my name to the GG ❤

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 11/03/2023 16:37

Just wish we could people to listen to her... she talks complete and utter sense!

Rubidium · 11/03/2023 16:20

See also

From Newsnight in 2015, around the time she was no-platformed from giving a speech at Cardiff University.

Kirsty Wark: If a man has his gender reassigned outwardly and he feels inwardly as a woman, in your view can he be a woman or not?
Germaine Greer: No.
KW: Do you understand how people feel that's insulting?
GG: I don’t care!

She’s great ❤️

Tessisme · 11/03/2023 15:38

Other women say it. But nobody says it like her. Absolutely love Germaine Greer.

Daffodilled · 11/03/2023 15:25

Yes, Germaine! Bravo.

LizzieSiddal · 11/03/2023 15:20

Thanks for sharing.

God she’s good, I want every teenage girl to watch her!

Truthlikeness · 11/03/2023 15:17

Rightsraptor · 11/03/2023 15:14

What was that bloody ridiculous comment from Krishnan Gurumurthy about basically agreeing with the other side and budging up for them?

Wally.

He might just have been giving the common criticism to give her a chance to respond. He was nodded along later. Regardless, it was a great clip.

Rightsraptor · 11/03/2023 15:14

What was that bloody ridiculous comment from Krishnan Gurumurthy about basically agreeing with the other side and budging up for them?

Wally.

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