Posted on 09/06/2006 1:30:57 AM PDT by Fair Go
FANS of the Crocodile Hunter have rushed to express shock and sorrow at his death - but one famous Australian doesn't feel the same pain. In an article for The Guardian, feminist and activist Germaine Greer announces: "The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin." She criticises Irwin for teaching "a whole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small" to "shout in the ears of animals with hearing 10 times more acute than theirs".
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Greer is a fool to worry about the animals. Animals are a resource for man. Use them, don't abuse them. Yelling at an alligator is no big deal.
My criticism is from a different angle. And this is for all the dads/husbands who have dangerous hobbies - such as going skydiving just for fun and adventure. Its your right to do that, but why would you expect sympathy or accoldaes from anyone when your hobby kills you?
Irwin was a thrill seeker who got too close to the edge.
And he is now dead as a a result.
Family men who put their family first don't do that.
His death was fully avoidable and predictable.
As I racall, he even put his kids in harm's way.
All for a thrill.
How selfish.
Does it really surprise you that she writes for the Guardian?
I disagree with your claim that animals are for man's use. The issue is much more complex than that. Keep exterminating animals and we might exterminate ourselves. Irwin's death was not predictable. Deaths from stingray's are rare. If you take your analogy to its logical conclusion, married men with children should not take risks and should not be in places such as Iran. Sorry, but I cannot accept your logic so how about we leave it at that.
Crikey life would be boring if everyone thought like you did.
Granted, but is Iraq okay?
Try to get some fact on What Steve Irwin actually did, rather than ranting off like a liberal fool.
I said it elsewhere and I want to say it here as well.
When my kids were much younger, I used to quite routinely travel to quite dangerous locations and do some quite dangerous things, because it was my job and it was something I passionately believed in. I even went to war while I still had quite young kids because I'd committed myself to something I regarded as important.
Every soldier, sailor, and airman, every cop and firefighter - every day they do a job that is fraught with risk. Every day they do a job that sometimes, tragically, kills people.
Plenty of people do it - and thank God they do.
I don't entirely get Steve Irwin's passion for what he did - but that it was very real and very serious is obvious.
An irrational attack by an irrelevant crone.
Must be horrible to hate men all the time.
There will always be those who sit safely away while making judgements having little or no knowledge of the person or what they are about or do they are judging.
I believe Steve Irwin to have been as professional on his chosen career as one can get. We can not always choose our way of death. I have known men and women, far to many in this case, that would be safe in all manners of their job except they stepped in front of a bus and were killed. This is true. There have been atleast 3 people this has happened to where I am employed.
So you can see people who have no knoweldge or experience of others and their chosen professions are sometimes and especially in this case full of hot air and usually have other agendas. And it's too bad this woman could never experience life as Steve Irwin did which did include his family in truly enjoying what he did.
I don't know how common it is to get stabbed by a random passing ray (wasn't the one he was tailing) right in the chest. Rays aren't THAT smart?!?
If you are in Iran for a thrill, then the same applies to that. If you are there to defend freedom, then its a diffferent story.
You mix apples and rhinestones.
Going to war for the USA is a noble selfless act.
Chasing dangerous animals (as Irwin did) is thrill-seeking for fun and profit.
To equate alligator antics for the camera with firefighting and soldiering is sophomoric.
You stick to your opinions and I will stick to mine.
Guess who hasn't done their homework?
Are you saying that providing an animal hospital for koalas and other helpless creatures that have lost their home to bushfires and bulldozers and spending millions to buy natural habital so the creatures living in it can avoid extinction is not a noble and selfless act?
Steve Irwin had just quietly bought 90,000 acres in Australia to be set aside as a homeland for endangered species. He did more for animals, their preservation, and increasing public knowledge of their plight than anyone else I've come across. I don't quite know what Germaine Greer and her fellow shrill screechers have done for anyone other than to line their own pockets. Case closed.
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