GREER WATCH

This fantastically feminist book of Greers is her most famous. She dictates why men hate women and why we have been taught to hate ourselves, too. There is no holding back, as shown in this excerpt:

"Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks."

This book created 'Greer prototypes'. Many women in the early 1970's were affected by it's forthright feminism, how it dared to challenge social boundaries (and still does). Through her radical ideas and strong opinion, it gave women a firm sense of power and awareness.

While it appears Greer has laid comment on many sections of English society already, why is it that she doesn't have the same shock-horror "can't believe she said that" affect as she does in Australia?

This was one of many hate comments I've found by Australians on blogs about Germaine Greer:

I just wanted to say a HUGE F*** YOU to Germaine Greer for her insensitive, inappropriate and unsympathetic and completely UN-Australian comments about the death of Steve Irwin.
Go to hell you old bat.

Greer was on Ramsey's cookalong live show last week, and mentioned that UK celebrities Cheryl Cole and Katie Price were "too skinny to be role models". This caused a mini up roar, most notably The Guardian had a few of their journalists write-up opinion pieces on it, but the earth wasn't shaking. Maybe most agreed with what she said (I do, in part), maybe its a cultural difference, or maybe the English just don't care what she has to say.

I know I sound critical of Greer, and by many means I disagree with much that she offers (or the opinions that she takes too far, more specifically), but as a young woman (and perhaps this is my inner feminist speaking) there is something about Greer I like and admire. Perhaps further research will have me hating her in my next post, we'll see.