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La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts) Wed Mar 14, 2012, 06:35 PM Mar 2012

Germaine Greer glitter-bombed for trans comments [View all]

Feminist writer Germaine Greer has been glitter-bombed at a book-signing today in New Zealand for her comments about trans women, including a 2009 column which said they ‘seem to us ghastly parodies’ and claimed being trans was a ‘delusion’.

The Queer Avengers group took exception to Greer’s brand of what it termed “transphobic feminism” and delivered the glitter in a move more often seen deployed on homophobic politicians in the US.

Germaine Greer unsuccessfully opposed the election of a trans woman to the staff at the women-only Newnham College, Cambridge in the 1990s and the group highlighted her opposition to regarding trans women as women.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/14/in-photos-germaine-greer-glitter-bombed-for-trans-comments/

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Germaine Greer glitter-bombed for trans comments [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 OP

She richly deserved it Warpy Mar 2012 #1

Interesting conundrum socialindependocrat Mar 2012 #2

if someone genuinely identifies as a woman they are La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #4

it is the internal identity that counts, not the external. Old cow. she needs to rethink` roguevalley Mar 2012 #7

You are skating very, very close. yardwork Mar 2012 #8

Transgender folks have some brains differences compared to cisgender folks. ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #12

If you're seeking equality for your own class, why would you shit on another oppressed class? qb Mar 2012 #3

yup. La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #5

I don't know, but the phenomenon seems very common. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #11

yep. Whisp Mar 2012 #17

good, she needed that mitchtv Mar 2012 #6

Similar thread in LGBT ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #9

yes, i deliberately cross posted La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #10

I corresponded in e-mail for a while with a trannie... Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #13

she should have taught you not to refer to transgender folks as trannies. nt La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #14

She referred to herself and to others as trannies, and never with any other name. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #15

i can call myself queer, it wouldn't be ok for you to do it. surely you get that. La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #16

Do you make it a point to tell others that fact, or do you expect that they will be Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #19

i expect people to know what speech is and is not acceptable, when you are not part of the in-group La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #21

And they are supposed to "know" this through mental communication? Or do you tell them? nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #25

reading. exposure. wanting to care. same way most liberal whites know the difference La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #26

"She told me how her ex-wife (his ex-wife?)...." mtnester Mar 2012 #20

+1 La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #22

That was before she underwent all the hormones and surgeries. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #24

its not the hormones and the surgery that makes the gender. thats the biggest point about all this La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2012 #27

Please edit your post to eliminate the offensive term "trannie." yardwork Mar 2012 #23

Greer's comments in ismnotwasm Mar 2012 #18