GERMAINE Greer’s attack on Australia as boring, stupid and sports-mad earned a stinging rebuke from the top last night.
Prime Minister John Howard described the outspoken feminist’s scathing opinion as pathetic and elitist.
“I thought it was hopelessly out of touch,” Mr Howard said.
“I thought it was pathetic. I really did. And so condescending.”
Greer, who abandoned Australia 40 years ago for England, slated us as “too relaxed to give a damn” in an opinion piece published in The Australian
She wrote: “If your ambition is to live on Ramsay Street where nobody has ever been heard to discuss a book or a movie, let alone an international event, then Australia may be the place for you.”
Bored by her upbringing, Ms Greer said she was particularly bored by sport.
“Which in Australia is a sure sign that you’re a bad person,” she wrote.
By: mike currill - 27th January 2004 at 11:21
In her case and for the well being of us normal folk the further away she goes the better
By: Geforce - 27th January 2004 at 11:09
Originally posted by mike currill
If that stupid bint was on the moon she’d still be 3 million miles too close to decent human beings for my liking
I think 200 000 miles is enough 😉
By: Geforce - 27th January 2004 at 11:07
Yuck feminists. Is this the one from the TV-show (she wears square glasses?). Boy, I’ve got my portion of feminists on friday 🙁
I’ve met some Australians, and they were some of the friendliest, nicest people I’ve ever seen (maybe together with the Ires). I like the people, the beer, and the culture (best pop-music is Australian!!).
Apart from snobbish, she’s also stupid, because sports is both good for body and brain.
By: Ren Frew - 27th January 2004 at 10:48
Originally posted by Flood
Just checking, but has anyone seen Ren today – just wondered if he has gone to see if she had started fancying men yet!;)Flood.
She said no, but took an unhealthy interest in my mule!:D
By: Old Git - 27th January 2004 at 10:32
Every time I hear her name it reminds me of a nude picture of her which I saw in an underground newspaper in the early seventies. She appeared “legs akimbo” and where her private parts were had been made into a kind of circular jigsaw puzzle you had to cut out and reassemble for your pleasure.
Heavyweight intellectual stuff.
By: Flood - 27th January 2004 at 10:02
Just checking, but has anyone seen Ren today – just wondered if he has gone to see if she had started fancying men yet!;)
Flood.
By: mike currill - 27th January 2004 at 06:53
If that stupid bint was on the moon she’d still be 3 million miles too close to decent human beings for my liking
By: Wombat - 27th January 2004 at 04:22
Just look out
Watch out you Poms
She left here 40 years ago and thinks that entitles her to consider herself an expert on her homeland.
Imagine what she could say about the UK after living there for forty years?
She’s bound to whinge about your beer, she’s already moaned about aircraft noise, God knows what else she’ll find wrong with you, but at least she’ll leave your cricket team alone – after all, she hates sport (and good sports, by the sound of things)
Filthy old hag.
Don’t come back. Perhaps Iraq or Iran is more to your liking.
Wombat (you remember us, the little furry, cuddly, dumb things that p**s all over your lap when you try to cuddle us!):D
By: Flood - 27th January 2004 at 00:53
Originally posted by Ren Frew
She lost the plot long ago and may even like men by now.:D
You wanna find out?;)
Do you feel lucky, punk?:D:D:D:D
Flood.
By: Ren Frew - 27th January 2004 at 00:39
Having a go at Germaine Greer is like shooting fish in a barrell. She lost the plot long ago and may even like men by now.:D
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