WHEN one door closes, somewhere a window opens.
We have lost one colourful Australian this week, but his death has heralded the return to the public eye of another - the indomitable Germaine Greer. Greer has been roundly criticised in some quarters, and quietly praised in others, for her outspoken article in The Guardian following Steve Irwin's death. She said, among other things, that the "animal world had finally taken its revenge on Irwin", and criticised his treatment of animals.
Greer appeared on A Current Affair last night to defend her views, and it was a cracking good show. "My feeling about Steve was always that he did not treat animals with respect," she told Karl Stefanovic.
"He seemed to regard animals as something he could torment … it's no surprise he came to grief," she said. "He humiliated them."
It was a red rag to a bull. Stefanovic could take no more. "How do you know?" he demanded. "Have you seen the video?" He called Greer insensitive and accused her of "just being controversial" for the sake of it.
"Oh, for heaven's sake!" Germs replied, her temper fraying.
"I find the whole Steve Irwin phenomenon an embarrassment and I'm not the only one who thinks so."
"Germaine, you are making it up!" Stefanovic cried, and said she was out of sync with the Australian public. Greer shot back that she thought most Australians agreed with her, and finished by saying she hoped she was out of sync with what "the idiots" were thinking.
Ah, Germaine, please never stop! Even better, come home!
Although, for your own safety, we suggest you take up a more socially acceptable habit than the evisceration of Australian icons. Something like clubbing baby seals.
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I mean, why say this stuff days after his death? Why even say it at all. He has earned our respect but theres always these critics liking to be diffrent.
This makes me so angry :@
We have lost one colourful Australian this week, but his death has heralded the return to the public eye of another - the indomitable Germaine Greer. Greer has been roundly criticised in some quarters, and quietly praised in others, for her outspoken article in The Guardian following Steve Irwin's death. She said, among other things, that the "animal world had finally taken its revenge on Irwin", and criticised his treatment of animals.
Greer appeared on A Current Affair last night to defend her views, and it was a cracking good show. "My feeling about Steve was always that he did not treat animals with respect," she told Karl Stefanovic.
"He seemed to regard animals as something he could torment … it's no surprise he came to grief," she said. "He humiliated them."
It was a red rag to a bull. Stefanovic could take no more. "How do you know?" he demanded. "Have you seen the video?" He called Greer insensitive and accused her of "just being controversial" for the sake of it.
"Oh, for heaven's sake!" Germs replied, her temper fraying.
"I find the whole Steve Irwin phenomenon an embarrassment and I'm not the only one who thinks so."
"Germaine, you are making it up!" Stefanovic cried, and said she was out of sync with the Australian public. Greer shot back that she thought most Australians agreed with her, and finished by saying she hoped she was out of sync with what "the idiots" were thinking.
Ah, Germaine, please never stop! Even better, come home!
Although, for your own safety, we suggest you take up a more socially acceptable habit than the evisceration of Australian icons. Something like clubbing baby seals.
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I mean, why say this stuff days after his death? Why even say it at all. He has earned our respect but theres always these critics liking to be diffrent.
This makes me so angry :@
