germaine greer

[sunfarstar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer
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[Kotze]

According to Wikipedia, she wrote this in the book "the whole woman":
Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognize as women men who believe that they are women and have had themselves castrated to prove it, because they see women not as another sex but as a non-sex. No so-called sex-change has ever begged for a uterus-and-ovaries transplant; if uterus-and-ovaries transplants were made mandatory for wannabe women they would disappear overnight. The insistence that man-made women be accepted as women is the institutional expression of the mistaken conviction that women are defective males.

In 1989, Greer was appointed as a special lecturer and fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Greer unsuccessfully opposed the election to a fellowship, of her transexual colleague Rachael Padman. Greer remonstrated that Padman had been born male, and therefore should not be admitted to Newnham, a women's college. :thumbdown:

[Sasha]

germaine greeg is an idiot

[ed miliband]

Germaine Greer likes appearing on bad TV shows saying not very funny things.

[JacobVardy]

She is also the only person i have ever heard on TV advocating 'permanent revolution.' I say kudos to comrade Greer. She might be wrong on some issues but she has fought loud and hard her whole life. Remember, she is an English teacher, not a professional revolutionary.

[Niccolò Rossi]

Remember, she is an English teacher, not a professional revolutionary.

Fuck, could you be any more patronising?

Nic.

[28350]

an English teacher, not a professional revolutionary.
Some cadre once described my father this way, and then my dad punched him in the face.
Not even joking.

[JacobVardy]

It wasn't meant to be patronising. As an anarchist, i am highly skeptical of 'professional revolutionaries.' Greer has written some good books, the Female Eunuch aided the liberation of millions of women. Shakespeare's Wife pointed out, and combated, the ongoing misogyny in the study of Shakespeare. Aufkleben said Greer liked appearing on bad TV shows. The only time i have seen Greer on TV, she was attacking the post-Mao nationalist turn of the Chinese Communist Party, and advocating permanent revolution. Greer is also an excellent speaker, if you get a chance go see one of her lectures.

[Niccolò Rossi]

Greer has written some good books, the Female Eunuch aided the liberation of millions of women.

Do I even need to respond to this?


The only time i have seen Greer on TV, she was attacking the post-Mao nationalist turn of the Chinese Communist Party, and advocating permanent revolution.

Last time I saw her on TV was a couple months ago. She was on Q&A, debating bourgeois real politic.
Interestingly, at the beginning of the show when introducing the panel, the host introduced Greer as a 'Marxist' to which she scrunched up her face and the audience laughed.

Nic.

[JacobVardy]

Do I even need to respond to this?

I'm not sure what you mean, i'd strongly argue that the destruction of the patriarchy is as necessary as the destruction of capitalism, and that they are part of the same struggle for communism.


Last time I saw her on TV was a couple months ago. She was on Q&A, debating bourgeois real politic.
Interestingly, at the beginning of the show when introducing the panel, the host introduced Greer as a 'Marxist' to which she scrunched up her face and the audience laughed.

I'd sneer too, at being described as an advocate of a single man.

[Chambered Word]

Referring to the quotes Kotze came up with, for a so-called Marxist she sure doesn't have the slightest grasp of Marxist feminism.

[Niccolò Rossi]

I'm not sure what you mean, i'd strongly argue that the destruction of the patriarchy is as necessary as the destruction of capitalism, and that they are part of the same struggle for communism.

I don't agree with how you formulate this point, but I agree with it's essence. However, saying this and saying Greer's "The Female Eunuch aided the liberation of millions of women" are two very different things!


I'd sneer too, at being described as an advocate of a single man.

Which really doesn't mean much in my opinion, considering you are a member of the greens...

Nic.

[Niccolò Rossi]

she sure doesn't have the slightest grasp of Marxist feminism.

Neither do I, I'll have to admit. Marxist-feminism is a contradiction in terms.

Nic.

[JacobVardy]

I don't agree with how you formulate this point, but I agree with it's essence. However, saying this and saying Greer's The Female Eunuch aided the liberation of millions of women" are two very different things!

I simply meant that the Female Eunuch led many people to realise that patriarchal capitalism is oppressive, not the natural order of things. Thus the book did aid the liberation of millions of women. Obviously there is a way to go.


Which really doesn't mean much in my opinion, considering you are a member of the greens...

Nic.What i meant was that it is possible to be a communist without being a Marxist.