Germaine Greer glitter-bombed for trans comments

[paulnolan]

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

Comments

[mushroomnoomi]

Lol
I'd never read those comments before and they are all disgusting. I don't understand why a feminist feels the need to undermine such an important issue by spouting sick crap about transgender women.

[kittymink]

Never read the comments!

I do read them sometimes though, expecting lulz and just getting confirmation of my own misantrhopy

[icanseenow]

lovely non-violent way to show her what a fucking asshat she is. Seriously, it makes me cringe so much that people will read some of her bullshit with "feminism" all over it.
All this feminism ala "real women are better" shit is so fucked up. its the same people who say "oh, women shouldnt even try to go to the army, we are so much better than these silly fighting men" etc etc

[mephisto5]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

....good, I hope it fucking scratches her corneas something rotten.

[paulnolan]

*beseeches Eris that the concern trolls won't start with that bullshit again*

[mephisto5]

IDGAF. She's saying that trans* women wouldn't transition if they had to have overies and a womb. The first ever medically assisted transition for a trans woman involved an ovary/womb transplant. The patient died. She's basically mocking trans* women's sterility which is just fucking callous and vile and really fucking hurts a lot of my friends.

RAGE.

[chaya]

“Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognise as women men who believe that they are women and have had themselves castrated to prove it, because they see women not as another sex but as a non-sex.

That... is not nearly how that works.

[akycha]

Greer has also said untrue, hateful, disgusting things about intersex women (such as women who have AIS or CAIS). This kind of biological essentialism is complete bullshit because it leads directly to the idea that women who are infertile or post menopausal or who even CHOOSE not to have children or are not having children RIGHT NOW are ALSO not "really" women which means that MOST women are not "real" women and sweet baby buddha in a cupcake shop, what the hell are the rest of us, then?

Also, I know that most fertile women I know just LOVE being categorized as a womb on legs and being told that's "feminist." /sarcasm.

[akycha]

I didn't mean to detract from her hatefulness towards trans and intersex women, which is the most vile part of this. Why do I only ever see that AFTER I post and I can't edit because I'm not a paid user?

She's so awful and makes me see red and one of my students had to read her bullshit and deal with it in a thesis (her choice, not mine) and it was like trying to handle toxic waste with inadequate gloves.

[zombieroadtrip]

Just so you know, LJ allows you to edit your comments even if you're not a paid user now, and as long as someone has not replied to you.

[paulnolan]

Ooh I didn't know that - nice. :D