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Germaine Greer under fire over Irwin jibe
ArcaMax Publishing ^
| 9/7/2006
| UPI
Posted on 09/07/2006 7:24:41 AM PDT by RubyCosmos
SYDNEY (UPI) -- Feminist author Germaine Greer has come under criticism in Australia for disparaging remarks she made about the death of celebrity animal wrangler Steve Irwin.
A stingray killed Irwin Monday while filming in shallow water over the Great Barrier Reef, and Australia went into mourning. Greer, an Australian expatriate, wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian in England, saying the "animal world had finally taken its revenge on Irwin" and criticized his treatment of animals in his internationally syndicated "Crocodile Hunter" TV show.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; steveirwin
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To: Sue Perkick
Gee, thanks. Now I have to write 50 posts as fast as possible to get that horrid thing off my ping page.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:07:59 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Rte66
LOL. Sorry. Is this better? Even this one is prettier than she is.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:46:27 PM PDT
by
Sue Perkick
(The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment..John MacArthur)
If Germaine Greer were to spontaneously combust....do you suppose that we could attribute it to all those bras she burnt finally "getting their revenge"?
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:51:23 PM PDT
by
Redlady
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Aye. All these years I thought Germaine Greer was
male.
But, from Wikipedia comes this choice nugget:
The same year, in London, she married Australian journalist Paul du Feu, but the marriage lasted only three weeks, and ended in divorce in 1973.
A picture from her younger days:
And more recently:
Feminizm ;-) does that to a woman...
Cheers!
To: RubyCosmos
What, she's run out of young lesbians fans to take her hostage ? Anything to get herself in the news I suppose.
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posted on
09/09/2006 6:53:30 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: grey_whiskers
Well, it's like someone on TV once said. I believe it was Archie Bunker or Fred Sanford: "Beauty is only skin deep -- but ugly goes right down to the bone."
To: RubyCosmos
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posted on
09/09/2006 9:44:06 PM PDT
by
BruceysMom
(I'm surrounded by liberals But its ok I'm reloading.)
To: RubyCosmos
Anyone else notice that all the serious Steve Irwin haters are Leftists? Just check all the disparaging remarks around Moonbat Land. There is something definitely political about Steve Irwin's death emanating from the sick bastard Left. There is just something about self reliance, rugged independence, individualism, entrepreneurship, capitalism and doing something that might be a bit dangerous, not to mention being a hated "Anglo Male" that the Left instinctively hates.
Plus Steve was a happy-go-lucky guy. The Left hates that, they want everyone to be as down and depressed about life and the world as they are. And how dare an "average bloke" be an animal expert? Doesn't everyone know that being an expert on animals, the planet and everything else is only supposed to be for the Leftist "intellectual" elite?
Steve was cool in my book, down to earth as they come and he was a hoot. I like enthusiastic "can do" people like Steve Irwin. Australia needs more like him instead of looking down their noses at him. Now a lot of those Aussie Leftists who were previously "embarrassed" by Steve are suddenly canonizing him. And Aussie conservatives are probably about as sick of the Left as we are.
To: grey_whiskers
She looks like the Quaker Oats Man. Feminism sure makes them butt ugly.
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posted on
09/10/2006 3:00:45 AM PDT
by
TrailofTears
(."We mock loyalty and are shocked at finding traitors in our midst." CS Lewis)
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