Should you feel an urge to take Germaine Greer seriously, about prettymuchanything, watch this piece of magnificence from 1968. You may want to bite down on something.
It could have been worse; at least she didn't flash her cunt as a form of revolutionary statement.
Now, David, assuming you are a middle-aged/old fart like most of us in the political blogosphere, what were you like in '68? I was then a snotty four-year-old getting on everyone's tits. Some would say there has been little development since, other than an advancing of the biological clock.
Nobody down here (Australia)has taken Germaine seriously since the seventies.
Even on the left she's seen as a caricature. A publicity seeking narcicist that gets noticed by making outrageous statements. Kind of like the leftist equivelent of the shock-jock.
I've only seen a short clip of that before in a documentary about GG. A brilliant satire on romantic love and female neediness. The film version of a couple of chapters of The Female Eunuch. Thanks for posting it.
Aaah! I'm blind!
Posted by: Baltar's Beard | October 21, 2008 at 14:56
You like Newsnight Review...?
Posted by: Anna | October 21, 2008 at 15:12
God, no. I used to watch it, morbidly, but now I find it insufferable. It’s like bleeding out.
Posted by: David | October 21, 2008 at 15:17
It could have been worse; at least she didn't flash her cunt as a form of revolutionary statement.
Now, David, assuming you are a middle-aged/old fart like most of us in the political blogosphere, what were you like in '68? I was then a snotty four-year-old getting on everyone's tits. Some would say there has been little development since, other than an advancing of the biological clock.
Posted by: Francis Sedgemore | October 21, 2008 at 15:58
In ‘68? I was practically still glistening with womb fluids. So I wasn't like much at all.
Posted by: David | October 21, 2008 at 16:03
You mean this cunt?
http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2005/12/if-australia-had-been-colonised-by-any.html
Posted by: Ploppy the Slopper | October 21, 2008 at 16:07
Aaah! I'm blind! Again!
Posted by: Baltar's Beard | October 21, 2008 at 16:11
"You mean this cunt?"
Now that was uncalled for!
Posted by: Francis Sedgemore | October 21, 2008 at 16:12
I could have lived my entire life under molten sewage and still have been happy if I had not seen that photo.
Posted by: vanderleun | October 21, 2008 at 18:19
"You may want to bite down on something."
Yes, my own windpipe.
Posted by: Kang | October 21, 2008 at 18:56
Nobody down here (Australia)has taken Germaine seriously since the seventies.
Even on the left she's seen as a caricature. A publicity seeking narcicist that gets noticed by making outrageous statements. Kind of like the leftist equivelent of the shock-jock.
Posted by: Jamie | October 22, 2008 at 01:39
I have to second Jamie's comment, but I would also like to thank you Brits on behalf of all of us Down Under for taking her off our hands.
Posted by: bgc | October 22, 2008 at 15:20
Wow. That was not just garbage, but annoying pretentious garbage. I find it hard imagine how you came across such a thing.
Posted by: pwyll | October 23, 2008 at 01:42
Germaine Greer is a putz.
Posted by: Steve in San Diego | October 23, 2008 at 01:58
I liked it.
Posted by: jgm | October 24, 2008 at 21:14
I've only seen a short clip of that before in a documentary about GG. A brilliant satire on romantic love and female neediness. The film version of a couple of chapters of The Female Eunuch. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: KB Player | October 25, 2008 at 21:00
A brilliant satire? Really? Not just pretentious unfunny horseshit?
Posted by: Anna | October 25, 2008 at 21:16