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Germaine Greer in peak form.
The man she’s talking to says why not stop spending your time on this and instead say “Ok fine, if you want to come and join us as women then you’re women, come and join us in the bigger struggles.”
Right. Why don’t we all do that? Why don’t we all stop spending our time on our own struggles and instead urge different people, who have different struggles, to come and join us and indeed take our place and push us out? Why not?
Oh well cough cough he doesn’t mean everyone. No no. It’s not that everyone should invite intruders to take over their struggles for them, it’s only women who should do that. Why? Well the reason’s obvious, isn’t it. Because women aren’t good enough. Women aren’t good enough to do their own struggling – we’re too weak, too stupid, too frivolous, too busy shaving our outer labia, too distracted by shoes, too squeaky, too excitable, too treacherous.
I find Germaine Greer’s clarity of thought and expression enviable. Not unlike some of the eloquence I find here at B&W. Outstanding to say the least.
It’s a brilliant turn from her, but I think you’re possibly being a smidge unfair about Krishnan’s question. I took it to be that he’s simply doing what interviewers do: articulating a position that the interviewee might expect viewers to be asking, and thereby (a) ensuring rigour from that interviewee while at the same time (b) giving a bit of space to expand on a point.
The latest reason for outrage among my woke friends is the law placing restrictions on drag shows in Tennessee (they’re banning Shakespeare!). I don’t trust the motives of the Republican party, but still, the law applies only to “‘adult cabaret performances’ on public property”, with such performances defined as:
Of course the focus of the outrage is on drag queens, which makes me feel like the left is now defending womanface. I mean, would they object so strenuously to a ban on minstrel shows?
Perhaps someone has to start “Burlesque Story Hour” to provide a less controversial alternative. Surely the spinning boob tassels will help young Billy pay attention to the stories. Hootchy-kootchy dancers are people too. Or do we want to genocide them? Because really those are the alternatives: either let them perform for children in public or exterminate them.
Enzyme – Fair point. I probably was unfair. It gets so irritating though…
It somehow always makes my eye twitch how they present tautologies as slam dunks. Yes, time is a finite resource, so not spending it on one thing means we have more for another thing. Duh. That doesn’t mean that not spending it on any particular thing is a good idea, you blithering dolt.