'Germaine Greer can no longer be called a feminist'

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This appears to be mainstream opinion among young people. Our fucked up universities now employ 'safe space marshals' i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/25/01/45A4A9FE00000578-5013379-image-a-6_1508889824115.jpg in case people say things that offend the deemed status quo.

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"Greer is now just an old, white woman who has forced herself into exile. Her comments are irreparably damaging, reflecting a total lack of regard for trans lives. Thinking what she thinks, she cannot be a prominent feminist any longer. She no longer stands for the same things we do"

It's not quite clear why someone who appears to be a 19 year old, er white woman, thinks that 'old, white woman' is an insult. But there you go.

Surely he's being ageist? Old people have a voice too!

Ageism. One of the last acceptable isms, even though it's a protected characteristic.

I do not agree with Germaine Greer about a lot of things. Actually I’d queue all night to debate with her about some things, then I’d probably end up agreeing with her.
I think (not that I’ve earned the right to have my word taken) that people being people (as in not flawless) in kinda the whole fucking pillar of fair society.
And I’m sure that if when pushed the young woman would say she can’t agree with Greer because her hair is grey and wrinkles visible. And she should be pushed to say that publicly so when she’s an old white woman she realises she talked a lot of shite

On that note I have just booked a ticket to Germaine Greer's talk in Mànchester in February!

cuirderussie

I might go too! I'm quite sure there will be many trans activists there!

When they tell me that black lives matter should center Racheal Dolzeal then I will believe that maybe I was wrong. But I don't see that happening.
But but...thats different. So I am told When I ask how that is different, I am told to educate myself. So still none the wiser on how its different to males demanding feminism centres them

She's also speaking in London (Blackheath Halls) on the 23rd November. I'll be booking tickets !

Is anyone else going to Manchester on the 24th Feb??? I will be going on my own and bit apprehensive.........

I'm going on my own too! waves

Damn, just checked DS' half term dates, and Greer is talking the week after :-(

I went earlier in the year, I love her, her books and her thoughts on the trans movement - so expected some discussion on this, even mention of the no-platforming.

Unfortunately what I got was a discussion on bugs of the rainforest, which as riveting as it was, was not the reason I booked tickets. I can understand why she locks herself away, and perhaps why she doesn't want to discuss this any more, perhaps we all need to take forward some of her ideas.

theaveragewife

Well she's been completely hammered by that particular band of feminism, so I can totally understand why she wouldn't want to talk about it.

I agree Walkingdead and it's not her responsibility to educate, or to put forward the same views again. I know what she could do if people listened, really we need to protect her and promote new radfem academics. How do we do this though?

I’d book for the London one, but I don’t really want to hear about bugs, marvellous though they are.

Oh, I see it’s called ‘Women for life on earth: The Inevitability of Ecofeminism‘. Ha! I’d have said that back in the 1990s but I’m not seeing any sign of it. It’s sold out anyway.

I can't take Greer seriously after her creepy little book.