You are a waste of time upstart Tao, no-one wants to listen to your dribble.

OZGIRL,

Yes I did watch the memorial. What a gorgeous little girl is Bindi, she would melt the heart of anyone. Steve and Terri must be so proud of her. To be that mature beyond her years she must have a very stable and balanced home. My heart goes out to Terri. Now there is a strong women if I have ever seen one.

"You are a waste of time upstart Tao, no-one wants to listen to your dribble."

Nonsense. I, for one, find tao a reasonably intelligent and articulate poster here. I'm not saying this because I agree with tao on this or any other topic (in fact, more often than not, the two of us are quite at odds with one another) but because through this entire thread your responses to tao have been puerile and unconstructive.

Cornflower, your link doesn't appear to work, access denied.

Shorbe, I agree regarding Tao, It's important to listen to everyone, it gives you diversity of thought. You don't have to agree, its learning how others think and comparing it with your own, gaining a better understanding, that's important.

The women and men who've followed and supported Germane, all ended up in the public service or NGO administration. Considering most welfare agencies are run by these people, gives you an idea of where their hero has led them and the effect it's having. She did get a lot of people to read her book, including me. Had a lot of interviews and spoke at a lot of feminazi rallies. Most of the discussion from both sexes acknowledged the changes already in progress at the time, yet thought Germaine was too over the top.

In Germaines time, men were really happy the women in their lives were getting out of the rut, as we wanted partners in life, not separate lives. We'd seen our parents slaving, our fathers battered by war then battering their families. We didn't want any of that, so the first bay boomer's changed direction, they just didn't go shouting about it like the feminazi did.

However in all human endeavour, we will always has the zealous, thinking they're pushing us forward, whilst pushing us all down a hole. Equality in life, but not equal in everything, we are all different. I love the mental difference between man and women, its the most exciting thing there is in life. After all, its easy to live by ones self, or with those of the same sex. But to come to terms with another opposite soul in equal unity, and develop a unique link, sounds better than a life of me, my independence and I want it now.

tao, OZGIRL and Deborah58, why don't you all get together and give eachother a good old $%^&()&. Might ease the tension a little.

Good on you mintie whatever, you will get in to trouble over that comment they are all a little proper on this forum NOT

Examples of what a sell-out she really is. Her appearance on celebrity big brother, speaks for itself. That book of scantily clad pubescent boys she published. She pines for the 'pure beauty' of these lads. That's classic peadophilia psychology. Cant maintain a relationship with adults and pines for the'purity' of children. She cant deal with grown ups, intelligent men on equal terms so she pines for boys, the 'pure beautiful innocence' of boys. Subtext... before they become pig-dog-bastard meesogeenust men.

Greer recanted an essential tenet of her ideology when she went on the record that her greatest regret was not becoming a mother. She championed the idea that the family unit (and motherhood) was the primary micro-insitutiion of hegemoniacal, patriarchal oppression of women. Actually, marx said that, fems borrowed it.

Greer is a classic case of a third-rate pretender hactivist who rode the coat-tails of the true agitators of change, who were many decades before her... those who got the vote for women.

Greer is just a book writer, lecturer, general talking head. The world is full of those. The net gives us ineffectual blowhards a place to congregate and put on our greer hats.

Its hillarious that anyone can think REAL change is effected by verbalising ideas. Oppressed people know their experience, all the words in the world make no difference. l suspect that 60s feminism, like all other movements, was already happening in broader society, b4 the likes of greer came along and penned the ideas. These academics are always late on the scene. They observe a social phenomenon, explain it clearly and then people think they were actually responsible for it. Its like the idea that explorers discovered the new world... newsflash... it was already there.

Greers cloistered retreat behind sandstone walls of academia pretty much stand as proof positive of just how pointless she really is. Why actualy do anything about it when you can blow hard and 'raise awarness.' Talking about it is just a noisy way of doing nothing. 'Raising awareness'... pfft and LOL. Those who can do. Greer clearly aint one who can.