![]() ![]() Nina Simone moodily intervenes to wonder:"'Do you think that men are good for anything? It seems to me that men are ruining the world. Throughout, the reader is diverted by the well-chosen quotations in the text. ![]() She is bitterly hostile towards transsexuals (her dislike is puzzling) and her views in favour of female circumcision - on the grounds of respecting the culture that condones it - are a disgrace. ![]() ![]() Greer is driving that car and going through red lights with abandon. She notes that road rage is at its worst when young male drivers are "outdriven by a middle-aged woman in a more powerful car than their own". She is an emphatic pacifist and writes, in a most bellicose style, about peace. But her view of marriage is Strindbergian, with not a happy couple in sight. She is dismissive about the tyranny of housework and stress of shopping. She suggests that mothers be paid by the state for their work (I wish I could see this as more than delectable pie in the sky). The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. She writes admirably - and movingly - about motherhood (as burden and joy). She believes that women should be proud to own their bodies, but she does not seem to entertain the possibility that women might ever regard dressing up as a minor freedom. Greer's opinions shimmer between madness and terrifying sense. She really does want to take on 'the whole woman' - I found I could only cope with the equivalent of a fingernail at a time. In Germaine Greer's sequel to The Female Eunuch, she considers every class of woman and spares no man. ![]()
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