March 08, 2006

One topic two sideswipes Is it wrong to be slow to anger?

It seems that the older she gets the angrier Ms Greer becomes - wish I could find a transcript of the speech to determine whether it is a media beat up or true. If true a fairly impressive (apparently)off the track sideswipe at C. Rice and H. Clinton included on what seems an irrelevant topic. Why would Aussies blow things up anyway? Nice support for the NZ PM though....

posted by fly 18 years ago
  • "How long will you women stand being used, exploited, led and told what to do? Now, go and break some windows!"
  • The NZ PM is a woman? Har har, bad and predictable joke. I am curious now whether the ad will screen in NZ, since the markets are probably comparable, and what women's reactions here would be. Calling Australian women "lazy" and "too slow to anger" isn't going to further her cause any, I bet. It's not laziness, it's a fairly reasonable case of "Who gives one?"
  • The NZ PM is a WOMAN if Germaine says she is a WOMAN1!! No further comment necessary
  • You're not showing much solidarity on International Women's Day. She may be a wacko, but Germaine Greer is, I think I have heard tell, a woman.
  • I expect if I spent my life working to eradicate obnoxious sexist advertising that makes women background props for male masturbatory fantasies cross-bred with wretched consumerism, and it felt like we were making very very very little progress, I might be a little embittered too. They said the same thing about DuBois.
  • I disagree that we are making very very very little progress. I think we are making little progress. Which is not so bad.
  • It's all relative. There are some pretty intriguing ads here lately: one beer ad shows a brewery where the employees are all women, because the men kept drinking the profits. A couple of guys disguise themselves as women so they can hang out in the communal showers at the end of the day. I think in general in NZ, though, misogyny in TV advertising leans the other way (can women be misogynistic?) -- there are a lot of ads where women stereotype and objectify men, especially the more popular rugby players like poor old Carlos Spencer or Daniel Carter.
  • The ceeb has put together a list of biggest milestones in pop feminism, in honour of Int'l Womens' Day/Week. And as with any list posted on the internets, it's wrong. First, its pop feminism doesn't mention either Nina Simone or Mae West. And it wrongly has Charlie's Angels when it should have Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill instead. Morans.
  • Women can of course be misogynistic, but it's rather like Jews being anti-Semitic.
  • The advertising in Australia is pretty much "look at that stoopit dum guy, mum/wife/girlfriend will fix the problem and/or look on wisely in a faintly exasperated manner". If you reversed the roles, you'd be tarred, feathered, and pilloried. Also, Greer talks out of her arse loudly and often.