Talk:Germaine Greer

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Questions

Does Greer have any positive feminist accomplishments? By all means, include her transphobia, and let it loom as large in her article as it has in her career, but if she's done any good (and she may well not have) I see no harm in mentioning it. <3 C^{Sapphire bullets of pure love} 17:39, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be 'professor emerita' (being Latin and used in other contexts, and given her viewpoint)? Anna Livia (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

paodophile

this section is wank. a quote: Andrew Denton: There are those who say – have already said in print – that what you're doing is creepy. It's no different to an old man staring at a young girl and lusting after them. Germaine Greer: (chuckles) Well, you can't stop the old man staring at the young girl and lusting. What are you going to do – tell old men that they must be blindfold or something? I don't think that's particularly creepy as long as they understand that they're not ... they have no right to lay hands on that person. But you can't stop them. How could you? I mean, the luminous figure of a beautiful young girl walking down the street and the old men sitting on the wall, leaning on their sticks. What are you going to say? "Look the other way, you dreadful old bastards"? What are you going to say? It's part of the joy of life is admiring the beauty of things that are beautiful. What is important to me about the Boy is that once upon a time his beauty was understood and celebrated by people of both sexes. A boy was allowed to dress in very bright colours, he was allowed to show himself off in the street, he dyed his hair, he wore make-up, he wore a little cap tipped over his eye with a big feather in, he wore tight pants and cropped jackets and so on. And the girls looked down from behind their jalousie and talked about the best-looking boys. AMassiveGay (talk) 14:51, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

In case I forget

Just want to note this page could as of writing use a few things:

1. She (somewhat half-heartedly) walked back her past anti-trans comments, though I may not be completely up-to-date, that was in 2018 (or so) and things have gotten worse in the UK for trans people since then.
2. She made some utterly embarrassing comments proposing lowering the legal penalty for rape just a handful of years ago, this should probably be mentioned. Got a lot of backlash.
3. Agree with an above section, probably should have some writing on why she's notable at all, her feminist writings. Chillpilled (talk) 07:34, 8 August 2022 (UTC)