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Feminist Greer slams Steve's antics (Germaine Greer Happy that Steve Irwin is Dead)
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| September 6, 2006
| Fiona Hudson
Posted on 09/05/2006 12:21:56 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Feminist Greer slams Steve's antics
By Fiona Hudson in London
September 06, 2006 01:00am Article from: The Daily Telegraph
AS glowing tributes and praise for Steve Irwin filled newspapers and television screens around the world, fellow Australian Germaine Greer launched a distasteful tirade on the much-loved Crocodile Hunter yesterday.
Most London papers carried sympathetic news articles, features, columns and obituaries mirroring the disbelief felt in Australia.
But Greer launched a scathing attack on Irwin, declaring "the animal world has finally taken its revenge".
In her column in The Guardian newspaper, Greer said the wildlife warrior displayed the "sort of self-delusion it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin".
"There was no habitat, no matter how fragile or finely balanced, that Irwin hesitated to barge into," she wrote. "Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress."
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; crikey; crocodile; crocodilehunter; feminists; greer; hatefilledharridan; hunter; irwin; liberaloldcranks; lipsticklesbians; manhaters; steveirwin
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Words fail me.
To: Arec Barrwin
Hmmm, no thingy for four decades makes some people ornery, apparently.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:24:19 PM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Arec Barrwin
The words I would like to use would get me banned. This ^%$*(*^$%#ing *&*##$^ is not worth it.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:24:31 PM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Never be surprised at what Germaine Greer writes. She is a bitter, angry and, in this case, jealous person.
Surely, it must take an exquisite amount of talent to be so angry for so long about so much.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:24:34 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: Arec Barrwin
"Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress."Yeah, like the sugar glider I watched him rescue from being hopelessly tangled in a chain-link fence. Grr.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:24:38 PM PDT
by
ahayes
("The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, but the righteous are as bold as a lion." -- Prov 28:1)
To: Arec Barrwin
Of course she would, she hates to see a man portraying real masculinity!!
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:25:01 PM PDT
by
brigada
To: Arec Barrwin
"I don't want to end up all alone like Germaine sodding Greer!" - Bridget Jones Diary.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:25:06 PM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Arec Barrwin
While I never watched his show and only saw him in several TV interviews, he seemed like a decent and honorable man with a keen sense of humor.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:25:12 PM PDT
by
BW2221
To: Arec Barrwin
She's nothing but a professional contrarian.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:25:45 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Arec Barrwin
Irwin funded more care for habitat than Greer ever contemplated in her wildest misanthropic dreams.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:26:23 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Angelides v. Schwarzenegger is like deciding between ebola and cancer, respectively.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Nothing like dancing on the grave before it's even filled, is there?...........
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:26:52 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Arec Barrwin
I bet Steve did more for the animal kingdom than Germaine Greer ever thought about....whoever the hell she is.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:27:03 PM PDT
by
texas_mrs
(Stop the OCCUPATION OF THE U.S. by illegal Mexican immigrants)
To: Arec Barrwin
The heck w/ this femi-nazi. Several FReepers seem glad too.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:27:10 PM PDT
by
Hoodlum91
(I've been rocked.)
To: Arec Barrwin
If Ms. Greer wonders why dogs hump her leg, it is because she is acts like an ignorant bitch.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:28:04 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
To: wideawake
Hmmm, no thingy for four decades makes some people ornery, apparently. ....and ronery........
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:28:25 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Arec Barrwin
Words from the "Female Eunoch".
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:29:57 PM PDT
by
BigFinn
To: Arec Barrwin
She proves that some people will do or say anything for recognition no matter how low they have to stoop.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:30:33 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
To: RexBeach
Surely, it must take an exquisite amount of talent to be so angry for so long about so much Didn't you mean "about so little"?
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:33:46 PM PDT
by
chesley
(Republicans don't deserve to win, but America does not deserve the Dhimmicrats.)
To: texas_mrs
Wikipedia says that she's an "academic."
That explains a lot right there.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:34:19 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: Arec Barrwin
The memory of the Croc Hunter will long outlast that of Greer.
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posted on
09/05/2006 12:34:20 PM PDT
by
Cyclopean Squid
(Being That Guy so you don't have to.)
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