Germaine Greer at 84 is still a powerful force, as was Rosemary Sorensen 's hit September story about the famous academic and activist. ***** Whatever she talks about and whenever she does it, Germaine Greer is impressive. Her latest media outing is an interview for British-American journalist Louis Theroux ’s podcast, recorded at the end of 2023 when Greer was still 84.
That followed hard on the heels of a shorter interview by David Wenham recorded for ABC TV . Wenham’s was much better. It might have been because, for that interview, Greer had travelled from the Arcare aged-care home on the edge of Castlemaine, 100 kilometres north of Melbourne, to do the interview in person.
It might have been that she was prepared for the questions (although she hadn’t, by the looks of it, been shown the footage the ABC used of her from as early as the 1960s). But I think it had more to do with the quality of the interviewer, or rather, as Theroux is much admired and Wenham better-known as an actor, with their attitude towards their subject. Wenham respected her, whereas Theroux treated her like a curiosity.
Like a vintage car. A once-fashionable hairdo. Sclerotic celebrity.
Deneuve, Greer and why #MeToo is not a 'witch-hunt' There would be no need for a #MeToo campaign if the justice system was adequately equipped to handle sexual crimes without victim blaming. We can ask why this is so from many angles. The backgrounds and careers of the interviewers, for starters, may have contrib.
