Germaine Greer Backs Rapist, Gets Criticised! Nobody thought that the author, Germaine Greer would shock the audience through her remark. As of now, Greer is facing a fiery backlash after what she said at the Hay Festival in Wales. At that time, she attended the event to discuss the topic of rape.
On the show, she argued that the for a convicted rapist, the prison sentence was far too high. And instead, she said that the punishment should be less to 200 hours of community service.
She added saying that the rape is just a “bad sex” and involves no injury.
The author said,
“Most rape is just lazy, just careless, insensitive. Every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal rights he is raping her. It will never end up in a court of law.”
Greer added saying,
“Instead of thinking of rape as a spectacularly violent crime, and some rapes are, think about it as non-consensual … that is bad sex. Sex where there is no communication, no tenderness, no mention of love.”
Furthermore, she didn’t just stop there; she argued that people should stop “pathologizing” rape. Geer explained,
“We haven’t been destroyed, we’ve been bloody annoyed, is what we’ve been. I reckon 200 hours of community service will do – would do me. I suggested a long time ago that maybe a little tattoo would be a good thing.”
Let’s know more about the author’s personal life including Germaine Greer age, books written by her and net worth along with Germaine Greer wiki-like bio.
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Is Germaine Greer Married, Who Is Germaine Greer Husband?
Germaine Greer created trouble for herself after remarking disliked by many audiences. Although her professional life is going on like this, what about her personal life?
Well, the author is single as of now. But she opened up about her past married life on a radio interview. Germaine Greer married carpenter Paul du Feu in 1968. However, Germaine Greer and husband Paul du Feu relationship didn’t work out which ended with a divorce in 1973.
Greer describes the first day of her married life with her now late ex-husband, Paul on the BBC radio show called ‘Meeting Myself Coming Back.’
Talking about her failed married life with husband Paul du Feu, Germaine Greer in an interview said,
“I should never have got married. I just thought I would give it a try but did not enter it seriously. He really chose me. On the way to the wedding, I knew it was silly, but I had said I would marry him.”
Moreover, she compares her marriage is “like living again with my parents and being told what to do. He would force me to apologize all the time and stop me talking to friends.” On the same show, Greer revealed that she got raped when she was just 19 years old.
Germaine Greer Wiki Facts
Australian writer as well as public intellectual, Germaine Greer was born on 29 January 1939, in Melbourne, Australia. Currently, Germaine Greer age is 84 years old. She is the daughter of parents, Margaret Mary Lafrank (mother) and Eric Reginald (father). She is the eldest of her three siblings- two girls and a boy.
From the University of Melbourne, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in English and French. Later on, she received her a master’s degree from the University of Sydney in romantic poetry. Greer also earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in Elizabethan.
Germaine Greer Net Worth in 2013
As of 2023, Australian author and public intellectual, Germaine Greer’s net worth is estimated to be around $5 million dollars. Greer started identifying herself as an anarchist communist during her early adulthood years. As an author, she wrote several books and some of them are ‘Shakespeare’s Wife’ (2007), ‘The Female Eunuch’ (1970) and ‘The Beautiful Boy’ (2003).
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Do not describe a person’s money as their “worth”. EG “Bill Jones is worth $20 million”:All humans have equal value and rights not dependent on their finances. To pretend otherwise is to belittle people and treat the as commodities.