Outspoken feminist and Australian author of the best-selling book The Female Eunuch has publicly shamed Beyoncé in the BBC2 documentary titled Germaine Bloody Greer.
“Someone like Beyonce, who I think is a fantastic musician, a beautiful voice as true as a bell,” 79-year-old Germaine Greer began.
“Umm, why has she always got to be f***ing naked and have her t**s hanging out? Why?” she continued.
“I’m not saying you have to keep your clothes on but why is sexual display part of the job? I might as well ask that question to a barmaid who says she doesn’t get any tips if she doesn’t show cleavage.”
The controversial remarks were also directed at female sports athletes, who Greer criticised for not being fully clothed.
“Why do women athletes have to be naked? I watched bloody figure-skating and the woman is virtually naked,” she said.
“She has got a few wisps of cloth and the man is in evening dress. You think nakedness is usually a sign of submission – it’s a sign of inequality.”
Greer has also provided her provocative voice to the Weinstein conversation, stating that the women who claimed they were raped by the movie mogul were “career rapees”.
“If you spread your legs because he said ‘be nice to me and I’ll give you a job in a movie’ then I’m afraid that’s tantamount to consent, and it’s too late now to start whingeing about that,” Greer said in an interview with Fairfax Media.
Greer’s latest book titled On Rape is set for publication this September, where she details her opinionated observations.
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She's so irrelevant. And, it's okay for men to have made sexuality part of their schtick since Elvis. Let's change this up a bit:
“Someone like Adam Levine, who I think is a fantastic musician, a beautiful voice as true as a bell,” 79-year-old Germaine Greer began.
“Umm, why has he always got to be f***ing naked and have his pubic hair hanging out? Why?” she continued.
“I’m not saying you have to keep your clothes on but why is sexual
display part of the job? I might as well ask that question to a barman
who says he doesn’t get any tips if he doesn’t show hip bone?"
Elvis' career was undoubtedly helped by him being easy on the eye, but there is a difference between fans finding an artist sexually attractive versus an artist using sex as a key pillar in their self-promotion.
Which is what Elvis did and is what Adam Levine does. Face it, women cannot express their sexuality on stage without being accused of "using sex as a key pillar in their self-promotion", which, as I've said, men have done since Elvis. Justin Beiber is another one. All of these men use sex and their sexuality to promote themselves.
Women make much more use of their bodies and sexual suggestion. If I were to name women, and you counter-name male musicians, that directly use sex and sexual anatomy to market, you would run out of names well before I would.
What even is 'express their sexuality on stage', but a more feminism-friendly code for getting raunchy to sell records?
I love how Greer has made a career out of pretending to be a feminist. She is just an agitator.
I've been told on here that just as religion has a variety of arms as it were so does feminism