September 6, 2006

Put a sock in it Germaine...

...your fifteen minutes expired a long long time ago. From MS/NBC/Reuters:
'Crocodile Hunter' exploited animals, critic says
Feminist author Greer says 'It’s no surprise that he came to grief’

Feminist academic Germaine Greer said on Wednesday she hoped the death of Australian “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin would mark the end of what she called exploitative nature documentaries, a discordant note amid floods of tributes.

Irwin died in a freak diving accident off Australia’s northeast coast on Monday after he was hit in the chest by the serrated barb from a stingray’s tail.

Echoing comments she made this week in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Australian-born Greer likened Irwin to a lion tamer and said he had intruded on the habitats of animals and treated them with “massive insensitivity.”

“It’s no surprise that he came to grief,” Greer told Nine Network television.
What better testament to academic life could we have than this. The people in the hallowed halls of learning don't have a clue about real life and what people are all about. They isolate themselves and only accept input that meets their narrow criterion, willfully ignoring all else. Time for a good house cleaning (or enema) Posted by DaveH at September 6, 2006 9:29 PM
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