Sunday
Greer is disgusted by a vulgar fellow like Irwin, just as she has previously been disgusted by Australia’s vulgar choice of prime minister, its lack of culture, its shameful history and so much else Australian that doesn’t meet the standards of her refined intellect (how she must have agonized before accepting the invitation to appear on Celebrity Big Brother).
- Steve Waterson provides a most welcome addendum to Thaddeus's slapping of fading English (!) intellectual Germaine Greer.
(Via Tim Blair)
am i the only person who detected the warmth and sardonic humour in greer's obituary of irwin? in the clamour to admonish, i think there's been a little missing of the point.
Posted by old holborn at September 10, 2006 10:48 PM
"ignorance with exhibitionist pseudo-erudition"
Hmmmm, this could describe New York Times, Washinton Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, bascially all of the legacy media.
I get the impression that Germain Greer is the Brit version of our intellectually lackluster Haridan Maureen Dowd.
Posted by Uain at September 11, 2006 04:32 AM
I get the impression that Germain Greer is the Brit versionExcellent. The more people that think she's British, the better.
am i the only person who detected the warmth and sardonic humour in greer's obituary of irwin?I suspect so, yes.
Posted by James Waterton at September 11, 2006 09:54 AM
And am I the only person who remembers that when Greer first emerged on the celeb scene it was because she was a mini-skirted dolly wannabe with long legs and big hair who wrote about the size of men's genitalia as philosophy. Alas she then morphed into a wart faced embittered gardening hackess lamenting that she and her sixty something sisters no longer elicit wolf whistles. What a navel gazing attention seeking fake!
Posted by Millie Woods at September 11, 2006 01:15 PM
Waterson is good, but prolix. For example, his sentence "Greer is not an intellectual for nothing" is two words too long.
Posted by Axel Kassel at September 12, 2006 11:37 AM
