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Originally posted by joveski:
auburn, if you're referring to germaine greer, take no notice of the comments. she jumps at every opportunity to slag australia.
i'm surprised she hasnt hasnt said anything peter brock yet
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Her comments were among the most egregious but news blogs had all sorts of nasty posts. Most who read her column, even those who usually enjoy her barbs, were offended and thought she was a right nutter. She has a decades long history as a sensationalist; she's sort of the Ann Coulter of her generation.
Re Greer on Brock, here's a satire from The Chaser:
Germaine Greer struggling for insensitive angle on Brock's death
Monday, 11 September 2006
Iconoclastic feminist Germaine Greer has struggled to arrive at a contrarian position on the death of Peter Brock, having prematurely exhausted her anti-ocker arguments on Steve Irwin. It took Greer several attempts to create a tenuous link between Brock's death and social issue of some import.
"Motor 'sport' is of course not a sport at all, and Peter Brock was not a sportsman," wrote the permanently disgruntled feminist icon, in a draft version of an opinion piece for the UK's Guardian newspaper. "He was a rubber-and-fuel burning environmental vandal. That one of the trees he had done so much to harm in the end came to harm him, is perhaps not surprising."
Unhappy with having to repeat the "ironic death" motif for both figures, and regretting using up her self-description as "a citizen of the rain forest" too soon, Greer then rewrote the tart piece, instead attacking Brock for his hypocritical stance on road safety. She also took the opportunity to criticize the media's anodyne and cynical commercialization of grieving, while at the same time drawing attention to her own deep respect for Aboriginal spirituality.
Peter Brock could not fool even himself with his belated reinvention as a road safety campaigner," she wrote, trying to muster up some indignation. "Many foolish young men who watched him emulated him off the race-track with consequences that were fatal, not just to themselves, but also to the blameless drivers who got in their way." "That Brock himself came asunder speeding on a country road is not fair, but it is fitting," wrote Greer in her conclusion. She will now attempt to make the sentiment marginally less contrived by asserting that "many Australians will agree with me," in subsequent media interviews.
Greer is now hoping that Shane Warne die suddenly, as she has a highly controversial post-mortem pre-prepared.