Germaine Greer

[newstart2380]

Have just been listening to an interview on ABC 24 and she called Juliar Gillard an organ grinders monkey the way she dressed. Here was this wrinkled stick with a head of hair that looked like she had put her hand in the power socket critisizing how another person looked. I personally have never admired this loud, overbearing feminist.

[polksaladallie]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

What does it even mean "femininity intact"? 

I'm hoping we are going to be enlightened, Freaki - but I suspect we'll wait in vain.

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They shriek, biut they do not answer when challenged.  Too cowardly.

Femininity intact is the gift you keep for your husband, but he, of course, doesn't have to reciprocate.

[freakiness]

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@darksideofthemoon wrote:

Australia's first female Prime Minister    by default freakiness, we didn't get to vote her in.

Not acceptable from my point of view 

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We did.

The first thing she did was call an election.

[boris1gary]

Hate to shatter your illusion dark, we don't actually vote for a PM - unless of course you happen to live in the PM's area.

[freakiness]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

What does it even mean "femininity intact"? 

I'm hoping we are going to be enlightened, Freaki - but I suspect we'll wait in vain.

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They shriek, biut they do not answer when challenged.  Too cowardly.

Femininity intact is the gift you keep for your husband, but he, of course, doesn't have to reciprocate.

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Clueless prejudices well and truly shining through

[boris1gary]

One good thing to come out of this thread, it is refreshing to see some of our Tone fan club defending Ms Gillard so articulately.

[izabsmiling]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:

Educated, intellectual women, who believed in equality of the sexes, have been around a long time.

bluestockings go back to the 1700s and were from all walks of life.

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and weak little men who fear loss of the upperhand should women ever get things like the same pay as them for doing the same job have been around forever.

..just like the dipsy women who worried more about  men possibly not opening doors for them if they received that 'equal pay' 

When it's all said and done a women is a women ....regardless of how she presents herself (ie in a suit and tie) or who her partner of choice is .Only idiots and power trippers fail to comprehend that.

[izabsmiling]

Crikey*Mate wrote:The divorce rate has increased significantly since the advent of the no fault divorce in 1974.

is that correct or not ?

Trends in divorce

Figure 6 depicts the number of divorces since 1901 and the corresponding crude divorce rate (i.e., the number of divorces granted in a year per 1,000 residents).

Figure 6: Number of divorces and crude divorce rate, 1901-2011

Note: Crude divorce rate is the number of divorces per 1,000 of the resident population in a given year.

Source: ABS. (various years). Marriages and divorces Australia

.http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/factssheets/2013/familytrends/aft3/index.html

[*crikey*mate*]

did you look at the pretty picture?

[newstart2380]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

There seem to be some here who know very little about her.  I'd suggest they read some or all of her books.

https://www.google.com.au/#q=germaine+greer+books+list&revid=1476676623

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God who'd be interested enough?

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Anyone who is fond of good literature, the plight of Australian aborigines, art, the human psyche, genealogy, menopause and how the world's women deal with it, women's whole life, etc. 

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Well, that leaves me out as I am not interested in any of the above, I have other interests more exciting and before someone asks what they are " no one elses business" (that a very polite way of saying it )

[izabsmiling]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

did you look at the pretty picture?

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yes ...

is your statement re divorces since 1974 correct ?