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Feminist Greer slams Steve's antics (Germaine Greer Happy that Steve Irwin is Dead)
News.Com.Au ^ | 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


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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To: Heatseeker

Kudos to Ms. Bailey!


61 posted on 09/05/2006 1:37:37 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: x

Are you talking about the guy that got killed/eaten by a bear?
I don't think that's a good comparison.
Steve Irwin was constantly reminding people of the danger of wild animals and how to approach, and never forgot who was man and who was beast.
The bear guy blurred the lines in traditional envirowacko fashion and seemed to imagine himself as kindred or friend to the bears.


62 posted on 09/05/2006 1:41:04 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: Arec Barrwin
"the animal world has finally taken its revenge".

I knew it! The animal kingdom had a bounty out on him. "Hey, Tom the Stingray, we'll make it worth your while to sting this guy." /sarcasm

63 posted on 09/05/2006 1:43:47 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Like food and fun? Join the Freeper Kitchen ping list.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
"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."

We need to get that b out of our habitat. Every creature she brandishes herself at is in distress!

64 posted on 09/05/2006 1:46:10 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: x
But Irwin did much good in getting kids interested in the enviroment. For every young person who might have been tempted to do something stupid by his TV shows, there must have been dozens or hundreds who were entertained and some who developed a real interest in the natural world.

My oldest got his feet wet with nature studies by watching the Kratt Brothers. But, he really took to it because of Steve Irwin.

65 posted on 09/05/2006 1:48:32 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Like food and fun? Join the Freeper Kitchen ping list.)
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To: visualops
Are you talking about the guy that got killed/eaten by a bear?

That's the guy.

I don't think that's a good comparison.
Steve Irwin was constantly reminding people of the danger of wild animals and how to approach, and never forgot who was man and who was beast.
The bear guy blurred the lines in traditional envirowacko fashion and seemed to imagine himself as kindred or friend to the bears.

Good point. There was that difference. The reason I brought Treadwell up is because I don't know whether Steve might have done something careless or foolish on his last day. I hope not. We'll know more about the details later, I guess.

66 posted on 09/05/2006 1:51:08 PM PDT by x
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To: RebelBanker

Yeah,horrible things come to my mind starting with a word that has F as the precurser!


67 posted on 09/05/2006 1:51:42 PM PDT by xarmydog
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To: Arec Barrwin

Let me guess, she's single, wait, make that divorced. I imagine a man would knaw off any body part he needed to in order to escape her.


68 posted on 09/05/2006 1:51:47 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Great run Andre, tennis will miss you!! RIP Steve, prayers for Terri, Bindi and Bob.)
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To: texas_mrs
That is what I was thinking, but I seldom watch TV.
69 posted on 09/05/2006 1:52:04 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Arec Barrwin
Feminist Icon Greer now enjoys young boys (“I'll be called a paedophile”)
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | January 24 2003

Feminist icon Germaine Greer expects to be branded a paedophile after writing a new book challenging conventional views on child pornography.

Greer, 63, says The Boy, which looks at male children in Western art, is about reclaiming the right of women to enjoy the beauty of boys.

"Everyone thinks the only people who like looking at pictures of boys - and I mean boys, not men - are gay men but that's not true. I, for one, love looking at them," Greer told British newspaper the Daily Express.

"I'll be called a paedophile after this."

Greer, who set the tone of gender politics in the 1970s with The Female Eunuch and went on to attack "lipstick lesbians" and fainthearted feminists in later works, expects The Boy to create controversy.

"It's going to get me in a lot of trouble," she said.

"I just can't let it go. Working on it has been the best fun in the world, because it is a book of pictures of ravishing boys.

"I'd like to reclaim for women the right to appreciate the short-lived beauty of boys - real boys, not simpering 30-year-olds with shaved chests.

"The snag is that everywhere I turn I find new pictures of outrageously lovely boys and it's too late to get them into the book but I keep downloading them, scanning them and printing them, just in case and just for fun."

There is no immediate publication date. AAP

70 posted on 09/05/2006 1:54:32 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Greer is just another bitter crone who has outlived her usefulness.

Best to take your own advice, dear, and allow my brood more room.


71 posted on 09/05/2006 1:54:37 PM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama
knaw=gnaw yikes!
72 posted on 09/05/2006 1:55:46 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Great run Andre, tennis will miss you!! RIP Steve, prayers for Terri, Bindi and Bob.)
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To: colorado tanker

What a callous way of trying to get notoriety!


73 posted on 09/05/2006 1:57:19 PM PDT by restornu
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To: Arec Barrwin

I would love to say F U to her,but I am afraid she may call me out on it![Shiver]


74 posted on 09/05/2006 1:58:11 PM PDT by xarmydog
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To: Arec Barrwin

She's jealous, like so many other feminists, of a happy man with a close family who successfully did what he loved and was liked and respected around the world, where she is a bitter, unhappy, unfulfilled nag.


75 posted on 09/05/2006 1:58:50 PM PDT by American Quilter (You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
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To: xarmydog

I think you're safe, it sounds like you are too old for her. ;)


76 posted on 09/05/2006 2:04:14 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Great run Andre, tennis will miss you!! RIP Steve, prayers for Terri, Bindi and Bob.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
We need to chip in to buy her some new batteries for her......ummmmmm.....massage therapy mechanical device.
77 posted on 09/05/2006 2:04:25 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: dead

""I'd like to reclaim for women the right to appreciate the short-lived beauty of boys - real boys, not simpering 30-year-olds with shaved chests.

"The snag is that everywhere I turn I find new pictures of outrageously lovely boys and it's too late to get them into the book but I keep downloading them, scanning them and printing them, just in case and just for fun.""

What? Is she really a Queen in drag and no one knew?

I can't speak for women in the main, but I can speak for myself as one truly grounded, very tough, and darn gorgeous in my younger days: Women like men, not boys. Women like masculine faces with planes and angles, beard shadows, defined musculature and even some nice padding on a good-sized frame.

Gerard Butler, Russell Crowe, and even Steve Irwin aren't popular because they resemble eunuchs or adolescents.

They look like men. Only some embittered snarky old male-basher, afraid of what men really are and should be could think an unformed child is ravishing.

Gods!! And to think these intellectual vacuums are still around!


78 posted on 09/05/2006 2:06:48 PM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Sounds like Steve had one wild animal he had'nt tangled with yet.. the Nasty Old Grim Greer...


79 posted on 09/05/2006 2:07:49 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Arec Barrwin

I must be out of touch...who the hell is she???? Another ignorant B....!


80 posted on 09/05/2006 2:07:58 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)
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