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As an Australian, I feel I need to apologize to Men everywhere, for our country spawning this monster. You want a postergirl of Feminism, she is it.

Clauderoughly

July 29, 2012

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer

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Title	As an Australian, I feel I need to apologize to Men everywhere, for our country spawning this monster. You want a postergirl of Feminism, she is it.
Author	Clauderoughly
Upvotes	32
Comments	45
Date	July 29, 2012 6:35 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcmxb/as_an_australian_i_feel_i_need_to_apologize_to/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/as-an-australian-i-feel-i-need-to-apologize-to-men.1016917 https://theredarchive.com/post/1016917

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I've actually read her book "The Female Eunuch" and it really doesn't embody that at all. Instead, she emphasizes that men and women ARE different and it is ok to accept those differences. She does not, however, emphasize a superiority of women over men. Also, it goes without saying that at the time this book was published, it did have more relevance than it does today, as it was during the peak of second-wave feminism, an important movement. My point being, if you read her work, she really doesn't demonize men. She simply focuses mainly on women's issues, just as mensrights focuses on the (important!) issues regarding men. Obviously, I think that focusing on equality rather than just feminism or MR is ideal- but just because you focus in on the issues that stand closest to your life doesn't make you wrong! Anyway, she is definitely not a supremacist, merely someone who devotes her focus on women's rights.

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Greer argued in her book, The Female Eunuch, that women do not realise how much men hate them, and how much they are taught to hate themselves

Greer argued that women should get to know and come to accept their own bodies, taste their own menstrual blood, and give up celibacy and monogamy. But they should not burn their bras. "Bras are a ludicrous invention," she wrote, "but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression."

Greer has defined her goal as "women's liberation" as distinct from "equality with men". She asserts that women's liberation meant embracing gender differences in a positive fashion—a struggle for the freedom of women to define their own values, order their own priorities and determine their own fates. In contrast, Greer sees equality as mere assimilation and "settling" to live the lives of "unfree men".[

She does seem to have some rational stand points though. And that's just off Wiki, so I don't know enough about her to judge her as a "monster"

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