Men's Rights Online - Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer
Written By: Chris Key

Germaine Greer, (born January 29th, 1939) is an Australian scholar, author and freelance journalist. She gained recognition as an influential feminist for her publication, The Female Eunuch, which she released in 1970. In her book, she projects of her theoretical beliefs on the nuclear family, women, men and children. Radical feminists are very supportive of her theoretical propositions on gender issues, and view her as wonderful voice for their movement.

The Female Eunuch

An ideological text based on conjecture, the main thesis of The Female Eunuch argues that the structure of the nuclear family repressses women sexually. Greer's book raises a plethora of arguments on other subjects such as children, nature vs nurture, subjugation and capitalism.

The title goes on to argue the following points:

Women are unaware of how much men hate them.
Women are conditioned to hate themselves.
Sex roles are unnatural, and are therefore learned rather than inherited.
Sexual differences are exaggerated.
The female youth are conditioned to conform to the feminine stereotype; are subjugated and rendered powerless by adhering to the feminine stereotype; are ashamed of their own bodies when they adhere to the feminine stereotype.
Romantic fantasies and happy families are impractical concepts.
The nuclear family is a bad environment for children.
Women are seperated from their libido, facualty of desire, and sexuality.

Critical Analysis of The Female Eunuch

A plethora of evidence suggests the nuclear family is the safest and healthiest environment for children; refuting Greer's claim that the nuclear family is bad for children. According to a variety of reputable sources, fatherless homes are the worst place to raise children, as they account for 63% of youth suicides; 71% of teenage pregnancies; 90% of homeless and runaway children; 70% of juveniles residing in state-operated prisons; 85% of children that exhibit a behavoural disorder of some sort; 71% of adolescents who drop-out of high school and 85% of youths serving a custodial sentence. [1]

The general perception of women is near impossible to measure accurately, as opinions on sex and race tend to vary from person-to-person. One method of gathering a relative idea of how women are perceived is to identify the behavioural patterns that are shown by men and women.

A review of statistical data from publications on issues such as health, employment, law and generalised behaviour reveal that women [as a class] are treated quite well by society.

Women's health receives more funding than men's health. According to figures from a 2005 publication, the UK Government and the leading charity in the world spent Ł36.800,000 on breast-cancer-research, while prostate-cancer-research received the sum of Ł9.700,000 -- translating to the latter receiving only 26% as much as the former; even though the two cancers kill similar amounts of people. [2] In 2004, The Australian Federal Government provided $6,900,000 in funding for the research of breast cancer. Only $2,500,000 in federal funds were provided for the research of prostate cancer. This equates to a disparity of 1: 0.36, which means for every dollar that was provided for breast cancer research, only 36 cents was provided for prostate cancer research. The research of skin cancer, bowel cancer, leukaemia and ovarian cancer received a greater amount of funding from the federal Government in 2004, with group's receiving $4.6m, $4.2m, $6.8m and $3.3m respectively. [3]

On average, women outlive men, and this trend is prevalent across Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. The disparity is at it's highest among the feminist indoctrinated countries. [4] [5]

Men are far more likely than women to die while working; over 90% of victims are male. [6] [7] [8] According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, men worked longer hours than women during 2005, with 85% of male employees and 54% of female employees working full-time. [9]