Germaine Greer on the Death of Free Speech | Loose Women

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  • Опубліковано 12 лис 2019
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    Writer Germaine Greer spoke to Loose Women today on the recent news that students are shunning free speech on university campuses. She also talks about the criticism she has faced for her writing in the past and feminism in 2019.
    From series 22, broadcast on 13/11/2019
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  • @davidnauss7245
    @davidnauss7245 10 місяців тому +34

    Germaine is a true person who lives the truth. Finally a true individual.

  • @stephenelkington4971
    @stephenelkington4971 Рік тому +71

    I love Germaine - she's a great woman and a great Australian.

  • @jennifer86010
    @jennifer86010 10 місяців тому +21

    Germaine Greer has, touched on the subject of "The Last Taboo" which is criticizing old people. All the other victimized groups, in addition to the general populations continue to think nothing about ridiculing and insulting old people, which include middle-aged people, people in their 60's and 70's and elderly people in their 80's and beyond. Shouldn't old people have the same rights, protections and respect as every other so-called victimized demographic in society?

  • @janetscully3337
    @janetscully3337 11 місяців тому +35

    Greer is a legend

    • @heiltd1286
      @heiltd1286 10 місяців тому +2

      Germaine Greer is someone who's always worth listening to. She's always been outspoken and sometimes outrageous.

  • @lcox6468
    @lcox6468 11 місяців тому +28

    GO GERMAINE AND FROM MY MUM TOO. WHO TAUGHT ME WOMEN ARE MOTHERS OF MEN. WE DESERVE RESPECT!!

    • @DAVID-kd3qy
      @DAVID-kd3qy 4 місяці тому

      My mother was passive-aggressive, manipulative and abusive. Respect is not a right, it has to be earned.

    • @cherrob48
      @cherrob48 4 місяці тому

      @@DAVID-kd3qyThere are many situations for women where their only grip on some power, has been to be like that.

    • @lcox6468
      @lcox6468 3 місяці тому +1

      @DAVID-kd3qy So was mine, her father of that generation beat her and her mother. You learn to be passive aggressive when people treat you a certain way.Manipulation is a tactic people learn and who do they learn it from??? Respect has to be earned yes on both sides not just men or just women. Unfortunately not all people work that way.

  • @juliecarne7706
    @juliecarne7706 10 місяців тому +9

    When you think about the ignorance and stupidity of the population do we really care about their approval

    • @kyachdistent1301
      @kyachdistent1301 10 місяців тому

      Sadly, everybody who gets off on the ignorance and stupidity of the population-and who needs their life to run on it (madonna the vile is a perfect example of this for instance, taylor spliff, another) does care about their approval-they're just careful to pretend its their acolytes' opinions and not dictated to by themselves and from themselves.

  • @nedbaker4129
    @nedbaker4129 10 місяців тому +18

    Shes still got it you go girl

  • @user-lj5ik2mk2d
    @user-lj5ik2mk2d 10 місяців тому +6

    Aww... Dear Germaine
    I love your name and your truth
    Thank you

  • @buddyneher9359
    @buddyneher9359 Рік тому +11

    2 things: to Germaine, you're still known in Canada, at least by women who were feminists in the 80's. To panel, don't I recognize the woman in the red blazer from Corrie St. long ago??

    • @hirsch4155
      @hirsch4155 Рік тому +3

      Denise Welch aka Natalie Horrocks in Corrie

    • @buddyneher9359
      @buddyneher9359 Рік тому +3

      @@hirsch4155 Ah! Thank you 🙂

  • @conillet
    @conillet 10 місяців тому +5

    "Sounds like hard work." 😂 What a BOSS!

  • @julia-ff9kt
    @julia-ff9kt 13 днів тому

    So refreshing that she truly does not care what you or I think of her. She is, and has always been, intelligent, articulate and fearless. There should be more people like her in the world, then there would be far less bullsh*t and craven servility, and more vision, courage and dignity.

  • @lcox6468
    @lcox6468 Рік тому +11

    Young people think social media is god and all on it is the truth, that’s their main problem. You need to listen to people you don’t agree or offended by because later as you mature you may see some of their points are right. You don’t have to live like someone you don’t agree with. Grow up!

  • @mailloud
    @mailloud 10 місяців тому +8

    Inspiring, smart, clear, thoughtful, witty, combative, pioneering, AMAZING Germaine Greer !

  • @Muzzy68
    @Muzzy68 10 місяців тому +11

    Amazing woman

  • @robertchapman6795
    @robertchapman6795 10 місяців тому +6

    Germaine has always been a voice that stayed in my peripheral. A feminist who often offers reasonable questions and opinions worth reflecting on. I can remember her from my childhood. But she started this conversation with her perception that “religion made shame”. No. People made that. If people better understood Christ’s teachings, they’d choose to be Christian!
    She is absolutely correct about the fires, media, politics and free speech.
    Domestic violence isn’t caused by men. It is caused by cowards!
    I was raised to respect women in general. Though respect does ultimately, come down to the individual.

    • @john.premose
      @john.premose 10 місяців тому +1

      People made Christianity. It's the same difference. Please just sit down, fanatic.

    • @Black.Sabbath
      @Black.Sabbath 6 місяців тому

      ​@@john.premose Who do you think you are?

    • @john.premose
      @john.premose 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Black.Sabbath meaning what?

  • @natureclips5849
    @natureclips5849 8 місяців тому +2

    She was ahead of our curve

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready 26 днів тому

      She still is..because she is her own thinker..not babbling a "narrative" or words not her own but some "party program"

  • @theshivers1967
    @theshivers1967 4 місяці тому +1

    I don't always agree with Germaine Greer, but she's great.

  • @kobrien1352
    @kobrien1352 10 місяців тому +2

    Students are very intolerant towards everything THEY disagree with. They are entitled to an opinion because they consider themselves far better educated than most of us and they know better. Later, though, if they’re lucky enough to get a job, they have to adapt to the REAL world and learn that their opinions don’t matter; they have to conform; they learn that majority opinion rules. OK?

    • @DAVID-kd3qy
      @DAVID-kd3qy 4 місяці тому

      You obviously deal in caricatures and silly generalisations. Most students are decent and hard-working and not at all how you describe them. And they most certainly do live in the real world.

  • @lostredsock6989
    @lostredsock6989 Рік тому +8

    You tell 'em, luv!

  • @michaelwood9901
    @michaelwood9901 Рік тому +9

    It's an odd argument that free speech means people aren't allowed to criticise you when you say something they don't agree with.

  • @hopehoping
    @hopehoping Місяць тому +1

    Germaine Greer - hero.

  • @degalan2656
    @degalan2656 10 місяців тому

    Problem with most ‘educators’ ‘influencers’ etc, is they speak in absolutes, many a time. Whilst they forget that non of us are arbiters to life… (meet the contradiction in this sentence…) frankly I’m a little done with folk explaining life to me; male or female. I don’t think there’s. Ever been more people explaining to us what we are how and why… yet… how does life all around us seem so chaotic? So directionless? Precisely… it is highly likely that there are in speech, no absolutes… or very very few… take heed… don’t fall for false prophets; prophets of doom. For me, I try keep things small and simple. Gut head and heart, with reflection.

  • @dezainaa
    @dezainaa Рік тому +6

    too short for her spot.

  • @andrewthomas405
    @andrewthomas405 10 місяців тому

    We don’t have to go along with anything any government says WE ARE THE PEOPLE,WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT….THEY WORK FOR US AND THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN IT…THEY ARE JUST A 5 year management team ….and bureaucrats just civil servants….WE CAN EDUCATE THEM AGAIN…….THE PEOPLE ARE THE POWER OUR FORE FATHERS GAVE US THAT ..🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @paulstuart551
    @paulstuart551 Місяць тому

    I agree about the evils of religious indoctrination. Just as Greer rebelled against old views it is natural for younger people to rebel, however people should not ban ideas but debate them with reason. Women have freed themselves from traditional roles, it is a shame men have not done the same & continue to be shaped by old values & the expectations of women.

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 10 місяців тому

    Nyah nyah nyah you gave John Peel the clap!

  • @Adriana-uz3wi
    @Adriana-uz3wi Місяць тому +1

    Who’s here in 2024???

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 10 місяців тому

    Nyah nyah nysh you tried to pull Cecil Beaton!

  • @Black.Sabbath
    @Black.Sabbath 6 місяців тому

    What nonsense. No one can make you feel shame. If you've had a one night stand and feel shame, that's on you, not on Christians. It's proven that promiscuity breeds misery.

  • @dannysullivan3951
    @dannysullivan3951 10 місяців тому +2

    Off the rails on gender

    • @DAVID-kd3qy
      @DAVID-kd3qy 4 місяці тому

      Ms Greer lashes out, I suspect, due to her disappointment that Feminism did not achieve what she had hoped for. The Transgender Community are an easy and vulnerable target, and she shows no compunction about attacking them. But her attack is aimed almost solely at Male to Female transition.

  • @liam.4454
    @liam.4454 3 місяці тому +1

    First they came for the men
    Germaine was happy about this and encouraged it and devoted her life to it.
    Then they came for the women and there was no men to protect Germaine, Germaine became angry and sad.
    The end

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready 26 днів тому

      Yeah, you obviously have not a clue. Germaine has always stated men were victims of societal roles as well.

    • @liam.4454
      @liam.4454 26 днів тому

      The anti patriarchy stuff destroyed a lot of good families, you havent a clue ​@@reddragonready

    • @julia-ff9kt
      @julia-ff9kt 13 днів тому

      Incel?

  • @Omnicient.
    @Omnicient. Рік тому +1

    People who say such things are people who psychologically need their opinion to be dominant; need their prejudices unquestioned; everything their way and no other way which is counterproductive and they often do it with bullying and cruel forcefulness with little or no understanding of human phycology. If we didn't change/progress we would still support slavery; we would still support men only having the vote. Society changes and no one has ever stopped it changing as no one can. It always has done and always will.

  • @DAVID-kd3qy
    @DAVID-kd3qy 4 місяці тому

    There is no "Death of Free Speech." What Germaine Greer seems to want is the absence of consequences. Even the most appalling people manage to get their views across. Freedom of choice also means that people can not be forced to platform someone whose views they find repugnant. Students have a right to their say in the matter.

  • @rogerdale5451
    @rogerdale5451 Рік тому +5

    Lose women. I did. I've lived a life as free of you as possible.

    • @prayingbanshee
      @prayingbanshee Рік тому +18

      And we’re all thankful for it, believe me.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 10 місяців тому

      @@prayingbanshee Good: that's at least one more woman available for a real man.

    • @DAVID-kd3qy
      @DAVID-kd3qy 4 місяці тому

      As a gay man who gets on well with women, I can still understand your attitude. I have observed female friends in action, and I thank G.O.D. that I was born gay!!!

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 10 місяців тому

    TERF! TERF! TERF!

    • @ella1125
      @ella1125 9 місяців тому +2

      What’s wrong with being a terf?!

  • @kyachdistent1301
    @kyachdistent1301 10 місяців тому +2

    Umm, seeing as this stupid blue-rinsed, sanitised and puerile show is one of the killers of free speech, a bit of rich this episode ever happened. And many past presenters of this show also admit this, one of the reasons they left!

    • @DAVID-kd3qy
      @DAVID-kd3qy 4 місяці тому +1

      And that is why such a vacuous show is PERFECT for Ms. Greer and her repugnant views.

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready 26 днів тому

      @@DAVID-kd3qy LOL I smell an ingredient of the alphabetsoup