Germaine Greer on Clive Anderson Talks Back

[@ManInTheBigHat]

Imagine! A feminist discussion with humor! Those were the days!

[@claudiadeeley7998]

I used to love Clive Anderson. She was 51 here.

[@SAMOANSTALLION1]

Awesome 👍 She's great 😊

[@laxeystu8096]

Miss this programme

[@theilliad4298]

this was great

[@RapidBlindfolds]

amazing chemistry between the two

[@musopaul5407]

Poor Clive, he handled this really well!

[@Rhea303]

Very funny .. 🤣

[@syndiccalls6993]

"some of my sperms are thirsty" haha pretty bloody funny.

[@legalfictionnaturalfact3969]

Eh

[@diec1290]

She was hot.

[@JoeyXSmith]

It's so strange seeing her dressed like this. Looks good on her. I'm was used to seeing her with a bohemian type drab that she wears now in her old age. I understand that we all get older but I just thought she was hippy type of woman when she was younger. Lots of baggy clothes kind of thing.

[@theresagwhite3175]

Don't lump Rolf Harris in with Germaine Clive and Skippy

[@mrjackbenny]

Does anyone know what year thus was?

[@vhsvideovault]

1990

[@JackRascal]

@@vhsvideovault Hate to contradict, but the Roman numerals at the end say 1991. I've tracked this down using archive newspapers as being 13th December 1991.

[@vhsvideovault]

@@JackRascal I stand corrected. That would also match some of the topical gags in the intro.

[@lukeslark]

Germaine pre-empting Basic Instinct…

[@baronmeduse]

I remember seeing this at the time and thinking what a silly waste of time it was.

[@robertmudrow8034]

She subverts the interview by being provocative "Germaine Greer" played for laughs. But she laughs like a pleasing eunuch at his witty comebacks. He's the cleverer in this.

[@ckpemac5268]

What?

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

"Bald" 💔 😳😵😡

[@Valelacerte]

1:26 _"Look how I'm sitting, you know I'm sitting like this? Because the last time I came on television they said that they could see my private parts. Now, tell me the truth, can you see a private part? Can you glimpse a private part? I'll even undo...I always wear thick tights and everything, but, 'Oh, it's not enough'."_ A 51 year old woman brings up her private parts for no apparent reason. 4:46 Germaine Greer: _"I have come to the conclusion, after thinking about it for quite a long time, that men are seriously weird. "_ 5:12 Clive Anderson: _"Well, I agree with that as long as you go onto say, 'and women are seriously weird'."_ 5:15 Germaine Greer: _"No no"_ Germaine Greer's _thinking_ is apparently as valid as an empirical study that first defines, _"weird"_ and then compares both genders. No, Germaine is the arbiter of all things and their value. One think you can always rely upon Germaine Greer to do is to be be endlessly forgiving and respectful of women, grant them infinite latitude in all areas, but grant men nothing, but scorn.

[@bridgetgoodall7999]

Valelacerte yeah, she's a crabby old witch ..appropriate she lives in Essex and has her own coven as well as oven!

[@ledhicks]

Meryl Streep realness.

[@mckavitt13]

Germaine Greer realness.

[@punkpoetry]

Ease up on the memes and try reading a book, you may even find it rewarding

[@Hyperplaterine]

I'm finally reading The Female Eunuch and it may be one of the few books I never finish. I'm nearly half way through it and it's the most tedious rant. Feminism has certainly come a long way since then.

[@beccaj8094]

Feminism has gone backwards. This is post modernism. There's people who define a woman by societal constructs, and sex objects. Feminism has turned into uncritical decisions i.e "it's my choice to wear makeup! Therefore it's feminist because it's my choice, as a woman." This is so-called feminism that lacks analysis, particularly why so many women participate in the same unhealthy choices.

[@davidparry5310]

'There's people who define a woman by societal constructs' ...as opposed to defining 'woman' by biology, which, co-incidentally, is what patriarchy has done for millenia? 'Feminism has turned into uncritical decisions i.e "it's my choice to wear makeup! Therefore it's feminist because it's my choice, as a woman."' Which influential feminists think this? Provide citations. Name names.

[@sicajes8489]

A woman is properly defined as an adult female human. Female refers to biology. Defining us by (ever-changing) fashions&stereotypical actions is sexism. Biology is not sexism.

[@Hyperplaterine]

+Sica Jes There seems to be mounting evidence that the physical brains of trans women more closely follow those of cis women. The brain is the most important physical/biological aspect of our identity. If this turns out to be true then trans women are indeed women.

[@sicajes8489]

Of course our brains are arguably the most important part of our identity-- but our brains do not define our femaleness or maleness.