She was responding to questions in an interview about the subject. What was she supposed to do? Talk about the memory span of a goldfish?
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In fact, Greer was responding to a comprehensive study conducted by Newsweek which showed the declining appeal of the British monarchy and its most seemingly fascinating member. In addition to referencing the pressure the monarchy has always placed on young women to produce heirs, she also criticised the intense scrutiny placed on them and the resulting lack of spontaneity. Rather than demonise Middleton, she praised her as the most intelligent of the lot, a statement which seems to make Greer’s disappointment in the bare facts of her metaphorical confinement all the more obvious. To anyone even remotely interested in looking beyond the Schadenfreude of laughing at Mad Old Germaine, it should be patently clear that any criticism she had was directed squarely at the monarchy, while actually defending Middleton from the deeply ingrained classism and sexism that has been its defining characteristics.
It is becoming increasingly common to hear how other women are either ‘letting feminism down’ or destroying it altogether. Women, entitled to the same expression of critical engagement as men, are absurdly demonised when they apply that critical lens to arguments or oppressive systems either made by or marginally occupied by other women. So it is that Denis Walter, a well paid white man on a weekday roster made up solely of nine other well paid white men, on a station whose executive positions are predominantly made up of men and whose most frequent female voices appear in the form of unpaid telephone interviews in order to strike the appearance of balance, can muse with no apparent sense of irony on whether or not Germaine Greer is responsible for letting women down.
This is ridiculous. Women are not tangibly ‘let down’ by comments made by another woman, but by the persistent and systemic refusal to treat them as equals and liberate them from the reductive notions of what it means to be female in a world which prioritises men as its leaders and changemakers.
