From the Land Down Under, once again:
Traveling in a fried-out combie,
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie,
I met a strange lady--she made me nervous;
She took me in and gave me.....
A friggin' headache and left a bad taste in my mouth.
So who knows the name Germaine Greer--the strange lady to whom i dedicate this diatribe?
Ms. Greer is probably best known as the uber-feminist scholar and author who wrote The Female Eunuch (which reveals that women don't know how much men really hate them).
Some other fun facts about the woman:
- she was involved with a left-wing anarchist group, the Sydney Push
- she admitted to being a "supergroupie"
- she outed a transsexual colleague in opposition to her/his fellowship election
- she believes women should tast their own menstrual blood
- she has openly called for the end of monogamy
- she once compared female circumcision in 3rd world countries to boob jobs in the west
- she published an illustrated book about the "succulent teenage male beauty"
So I bring this all up 'cause Germaine (whom I'll affectionately call Gigi like the only other Germaine I know) had the audacity and poor tact to call out Steve Irwin a couple of days after his untimely death.
Insensitive prat. (Oh, wait; a former female British PM once called her a "great big hard-boiled prat." That works too.)
"There was not an animal he was not prepared to manhandle. Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress. Every snake badgered by Irwin was at a huge disadvantage, with only a single possible reaction to its terrifying situation, which was to strike. The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin."
When shall the animal world take its revenge on you, Gigi? Snakes on a feminist! Oh, the irony of the allusion to the temptation of Eve is killing me! I suppose I'm just a male blaming your kind for all the evils in the world, right?
The supergroupie admission is just ridiculous. Apparently, in her opinion, groupies demystify sex: "They accept it as physical, and they aren't possessive about their conquests."
By giving Kid Rock a hummer after blowing lines backstage? Wow.
Turns out the guys from South Park probably agree with Gigi. Who would have thunk it?
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I read most of her first famous book when I was a teenager, but I hardly recall what I thought, it was so long ago. Kind of like when she was last relevant.
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