Germaine Greer
Writer and academic, born in 1939, whose The Female Eunuch (1970) argued that the consumerist nuclear family represses women and became a founding text of second-wave feminism.
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Their wordsIt’s not enough to denounce the abuse of women.
↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsNow, most of the people in this country do not believe that non-consensual sex is rape. They think it has to be violent: wrong, it doesn’t.
↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 2nd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsSomehow, we have got to rescue the institution of hetero-sex from the mess it is in and that is partly brought about by pornography, prostitution, commercialisation and the cheapening of everything about a woman’s body.
↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsStranger rape is very rare. Most women who are, who complain of sexual assault, know who their attacker was and is a friend of theirs and is a part of their circle.
↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsOne of the reasons for that is the extremity of the sentences. We’ve had them raised and raised and raised in the misbelief that women, more women, will complain and more juries will convict. The effect is the opposite.
↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsI agree that women should come out and take names and talk loud and draw a crowd and ostracise the person who is behaving badly.
↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 6th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle.
↗The Female Eunuch (McGraw-Hill, 1971 US edition of the 1970 book)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsFreedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
↗The Female Eunuch (McGraw-Hill, 1971 US edition of the 1970 book)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsSecurity is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
↗The Female Eunuch (McGraw-Hill, 1971 US edition of the 1970 book)archive.org All 3 from this book