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    Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.

    Germaine Greer: Women Aren't As Funny As Men

    The Way We Were: Life Magazine Photos Of Women In The 1970s

    British Feminism Is Totally Effed, Says UK Observer

    Michelle Obama's Election Night Dress: Germaine Greer Just Doesn't Get It

    Pearls Of...Wisdom?

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    Image of Catabolic Catabolic
    11/11/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Perhaps the ladies need to ask some handsome gentleman to recalibrate their Human Cannonball Machine of Rights Exploration so they can land safely into the Cautious Liberty Plains. I believe it is located somewhere between the Canyon of Total Female Subjugation and the Sweaty Jungle of Excess. #germainegreer
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Rules For Power:

    Men: $$$, having testes
    Women: being fun and sexy!

    Gals, don't you go on and try to rise above the ranks at your jobs! Don't you know that'll only cause wrinkles, and looking good is how you're gonna get some respect, girlfren! #germainegreer
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    Image of pesematology pesematology
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    "weeping, wailing 'e don't love me!"

    Oh yeah, sounds like feminism to me. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @pesematology: Sounds like something out of Dickens, fer chrissakes. #germainegreer
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    Image of kityglitr kityglitr
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Oh geez... here's where I begin having a problem. What exactly does unattractive mean? Is unattractive something given at birth? Or can makeup, grooming, plastic surgery, or any other type of manipulation of the natural state stave off ugly?!? When we talk about unattractiveness, are we talking about things a person can change, or things a person is POWERLESS against?
    Honestly, I'm like 3 Bloody Mary's into the evening and for some reason, this is stuck in my craw. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @kityglitr: I think it means spending money and going through painful procedures to make your naturally frizzy hair straight and glossy. 'I'd love to stop doing it, but the feminine-ist in me won't let me!' #germainegreer
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    Image of La Chica Lucy La Chica Lucy
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    If you haven't already read the comments on the Oprah article, please do! Every single one of them basically says: "I'm a feminist and this article is crap." It's awesome!

    Some of the comments are the type of thing you only see here or on Shakesville or Harpyness. This actually made my day. #germainegreer
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    11/11/09

    @La Chica Lucy: Yeah, that's what I was coming to say. It's a waste of worry to say "millions of women will read this on Oprah.com" and take as gospel or whatever when the actual women reading it on Oprah.com are doing a fantastic job taking it down on their own. Well done, feminists! #germainegreer
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    11/11/09

    @La Chica Lucy: I want to hug the user "pandmitten" over there because her comment is SO amazing. Well written, right on, and just a total takedown. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Quentin Letts: the male, British Phyllis Schlafly. #germainegreer
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Right, because the only thing that stops us ladies from taking our equal place in society is a smart new catchphrase. #germainegreer
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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Why does sexy always have to come into everything? I don't need to feel sexy 24/7 because *GASP* I am not defined by my sexuality, my sexual appeal to others, or as a sex object!

    Amazing, but true.

    I don't need to feel sexy to do my job well. It frankly never even occurs to me. Being pre-occupied with either feeling sexy, or considered sexy by others, seems like a fun way to develop an objectification complex.

    It should go without saying that I don't feel sex-less, either. But I'd think it would be exhausting to, among all the other things I need to accomplish in a day, managing to be or feel "sexy" the whole time, too. That just seems like pressure I don't need when I have deadlines.

    This is just another version of expecting/requiring women to be thinking about our sexual object status all the time. And frankly, I've got much better things to do. #germainegreer
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    11/10/09

    @tiredfairy: YES.

    As a side note, apparently my four-year-old son asked my husband the other day if he looked "sexy." WHO HAS BEEN TALKING TO MY KID I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @tiredfairy: I rarely feel "sexy", but it's not that I feel "not-sexy". It's that I am not thinking about it. When I am taking notes in class, I hardly care if I am attractive. It doesn't cross my mind, and why should it? That's not what I'm there for.

    I'm down with that. There are situations in which I want to be seen as sexy, and many in which sexiness is irrelevant or even harmful to me, so... why should I push to be unilaterally sexy, anyway? #germainegreer
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    Image of AnotherJenn AnotherJenn
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Every single day someone with a position of power and/or a voice in major media questions "the orthodoxies of feminism." It's not a radical act to make up shit about feminism and point out that it smells. What continues to be a radical act is to insist that each woman be judged on her individual merits instead of as a monolith. #germainegreer
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    I'd love to ask the author of the "feminine-ist" article how her "fun and sexy" power is working out for her when she's in her 70s.

    What a freaking dip that woman is.

    And also, can someone explain to me what the obsession is with Germaine Greer? I mean, I know who she is, but she's so irrelevant over here, yet it seems like her name pops up with regularity in the Daily Fail. I don't understand. #germainegreer
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    Image of ardentlilac ardentlilac
    11/10/09

    @whynotshesaid: It depends on your generation -- The Female Eunuch was a groundbreaking book, especially coming on the heels of the sexual revolution when women were still being defined and confined by a narrow definition of "womanhood." She was brave and coarse and ballsy at a time when "nice" women didn't talk that way. Some of this stuff seems strident and loopy now, maybe, but it was so important in moving the conversation forward. #germainegreer
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    11/11/09

    @ardentlilac: Oh, I'm aware of the role she played in the earlier years of the women's lib movement. It's just that she hasn't really done much on this side of the pond, and I wasn't sure if she had done anything on the other side, and whether that was enough to justify the fact that she is pulled out as the whipping girl every time some intellectually lazy dolt wants to talk about how damaging feminism is. #germainegreer
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    Image of ardentlilac ardentlilac
    11/11/09

    @whynotshesaid: Maybe she and Doris Lessing and Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem are trounced on over and over as they're more "mainstream" and "available" while another debate seems to have been held, then faded, from the academic arena? I'd like to see them grapple with Katha Pollitt, Molly Haskell, Elaine Showalter or Julia Kristeva! (Yes, I took a graduate gender studies course, can you tell). #germainegreer
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    Image of Wandell Wandell
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Well, I am a feminist, and I will get as drunk and disorderly as I want! And when being drunk and disorderly, I will puke anywhere I please (preferably on a computer screen displaying this article)! #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @Wandell: Don't ruin your computer, print out a copy and vomit on that. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @Snowbunny: Hmm.... this is true. I was thinking I would puke on a random computer in the bar where I am drunk that for some reason is displaying the article.... but I suppose a printed out copy is better. :) #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @Snowbunny: Wasting paper kills a tree! Puke on the author of that shitty article. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @Vulcan Has No Moon: Oh man, I LIKE THAT WAY BETTER! Good ideas all around, Jezebels! #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    Oh, great. If I decide not to comply with my prescribed feminine gender role, I'm not my "fullest potential self"? I highly doubt when I go to med school they're going to be telling me that the key to power and success as a neurosurgeon is how sexy and feminine I'm feeling when I'm operating on someone's brain. I'm thinking it might be more along the lines of, oh, actually knowing what I'm doing.

    Also, "femininist" just sounds like you have a pronunciation problem, Ms. Salmansohn. Sorry. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    She's a card-carrying feminine-ist? I would like to see that card. #germainegreer
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    11/10/09

    @Susan B.: It's pink and glittery, and gets you discounts on yogurt and mops. #germainegreer
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    11/11/09

    @Chamalla,barren crone: Aw man! My feminism card is made of hemp, and I couldn't use the Dr Marten's credit even if I wanted to--I have too many demerits on it for kissing boys. #germainegreer
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    First of all, the term "feminine-ist" is really unwieldy -- it sounds like "feminist," pronounced with a stutter. She can't really expect people to drop the word into actual conversation, so why create a new term? It seems like she just wants to be able to say that she's not a feminist and not come off like an asshole even though it's true. She IS an asshole.
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    Image of Dauphine Dauphine
    11/10/09

    In reply to Everything That's Wrong With The World Can Be Summarized In Two Articles.
    What's wrong with the world can be surmised in three words: Homo sapiens sapiens. There. The end. #germainegreer
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