Posted on 06/03/2015 12:42:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Feminist theorist and author Germaine Greer said that the concept of motherhood has been “emptied out” and is “gone” in a lecture on women’s progress at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on May 23.
The outspoken Australian feminist, who once compared motherhood to captivity, critiqued the “concept” of motherhood at a time in which in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become increasingly popular. […]
Greer also voiced her disapproval of singer/songwriter Elton John naming his same-sex “wife” David Furnish as the “mother” on their sons’ birth certificates.
“Sir Elton John and his ‘wife,’ David Furnish, have entered on the birth certificates of their two sons [that] David Furnish is the mother…That’ll give you an idea of how the concept of ‘motherhood’ is emptied out. It’s gone. It’s been deconstructed,” the 76-year-old Greer said. …
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I too doubt that Greer is a total convert. But truth is truth, regardless of the source. In the crazy times in which we live where right is wrong and wrong is right, where black is white and white is black, and where up is now down, it is refreshing to hear someone from the left acknowledge truth!
Well, the ‘age of enlightenment” that gave rise to things like the War of Independence is not what people like Mill or Brontë were ever part of, is what my point was.
I agree, these who write about the supposed “ enslavement , oppression, or sufferage “ of one segment of one part of society are those who seek revenge or enslave the other part of society.
Those in the feminist who yell the loudest are those who want to enslave people if and when they have the power and freedom to do so, look at gun control propaganda.
The end result is what happen in Nazi Germany and Europe to the Jews during WWII with a different set of characters, but same hatred and agenda.
You beat me to it.
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