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Germaine Greer has suggested that intelligent women might be happier if they married “truck drivers.”
The 85-year-old feminist and author told Luis Theroux Podcast the idea that couples should “compete” together in their careers “is a bad idea.”
Explaining her comments, she told podcaster Theroux: “Women always think we need that status in our husband.
‘He doesn’t think he needs that status on us. So from the beginning there is an imbalance.”
speaking from Castlemaine in Australia, she He referenced the relationship between married poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath by saying that history remembers Hughes as a “great poet” while Plath is remembered as a “poet or martyr.”
On Louis Theroux’s podcast, academic and feminist Germaine Greer said women believe they need their husbands to have “status,” but she said men don’t feel the same way, so “there’s an imbalance from the beginning.”
During the episode, which lasted an hour and 15 minutes, Theroux also pressed Greer about her flirtations with the late footballer George Best.
Although she denied having a full-blown affair with the Manchester United legend, she admitted she had become “tangled” with the late star.
She said: ‘I was depressed about him. He was also a damn good footballer. But I mean what happened there is that I used to ignore George.
The pair met at The Brown Bull pub in Manchester, she reveals, saying: “One night I was there sucking on the suds and he said, ‘You don’t like me, do you?'”
Speaking about the “no platform” or cancel culture that has evolved, he told Theroux that no one has a “God-given right to speak.”
The academic also made reference to a flirtatious friendship with George Best; saying that while she didn’t “immediately jump on him or vice versa,” she did like him
She replied: ‘George, for God’s sake, there isn’t a woman in this room who doesn’t like you. What do you think I am? A monster? Abnormal.’
Despite the flirting, she said, “I didn’t jump on him right away or vice versa.”
During the episode, Greer also said that the students were right to protest against her views on transgender issues, saying that no one has a “God-given right to speak.”
The intellectual was reflecting on her controversial appearance at Cardiff University in 2015, in which she made transphobic comments.
She told conference attendees nearly a decade ago: “I don’t believe a woman is a man without an ass.” You can hit me over the head with a baseball bat. That still won’t change my mind.
Students at the school protested before Greer’s appearance and outside the school that day.
Referring to protests against her over anti-trans comments she made in 2015 by students at Cardiff University, Greer said she respected their right to “shout her out”.
In the podcast episode, Theroux suggested that “the left is perhaps more censorious and “less tolerant of dissenting opinions and more opposed to freedom of expression.”
Greer, who rose to fame after writing The Eunuch Woman in 1970, responded by saying of the students who protested: “I’m on their side.” If they want me to shut up, fine. Go for it.
‘I hope the students will rebel, I hope they will oppose it and I hope that as a teacher I have to play my part. I’m not worried about the thought of people yelling at me and yelling at me!’
