Category Archives: The Left

Legal Eagle On Rage

August 24, 2008 – 8:47 am

I think my response and reading of Germaine Greer’s piece On Rage has emanated from my own feelings about rage. So I thought I might explore rage myself.
Sometimes, rage can be a productive emotion. For example, when I lived in the UK, the school I attended initially told my mother that they thought I was [...]

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What has happened to Greer’s feminism?

August 16, 2008 – 9:52 pm

I read Tracee Hutchison’s critique of Germaine Greer, and although I often don’t agree with Hutchison, this time, I think she’s spot on in her criticisms of Greer. In Greer’s essay On Rage, she says:
In considering the desperate condition of Australian Aboriginal people after 200 years of abuse physical and mental, we should not be [...]

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Snobbery and class

August 7, 2008 – 1:04 pm

The first time I became aware of class as a concept was when I moved to the UK. I had been a student at my independent girls’ school for precisely three days when I heard some girls in my class talking about “townies”. “What’s a townie?” I asked, all innocence.
A barrage of explanations came out, [...]

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Selling out feminism for multiculturalism

November 3, 2006 – 8:38 pm

The New Left:

I’m going for political suicide here but I’m willing to stand up with anybody else in this country who happens to agree with Sheik Hilali’s sentiments.
Not because of any emotional or religious point of view but from sheer logic. While men who want to assault women exist, there will be women who [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Feminism | Comments (168)