Irwin portrait looks unmanly: Greer

[Swagman]

Irwin portrait looks unmanly: Greer

Tuesday Feb 20 16:00 AEDT
By Shaun Davies
ninemsn


Germaine Greer has renewed her attack on dead naturalist Steve Irwin, reiterating her belief that he abused animals and calling his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery "not altogether manly".

In an opinion piece published today for UK newspaper The Guardian, Greer also says she has received death threats and has had two dead rabbits thrown at her house since her controverial Irwin comments.

She complains Australia is "morphing into California" and is "losing its respect for honesty and directness".Despite receiving widespread condemnation after her previous attack on Irwin, Greer does not take a backward step in her latest piece.

"It is my judgement that Irwin made a habit of, and a fortune by, intruding upon the steadily diminishing space available to wild creatures, and that his intention was to demonstrate his power over them," she writes.The premier of Queensland weighed in, announcing that he would treble my taxes, if he could, which gave new heart to those who thought I should be fed to the crocodiles," Greer writes.

"Lately someone has been throwing food at the windows of my house in England, mostly eggs, sometimes jam doughnuts, once corned beef hash and shaved ham, and, this weekend, two dead rabbits."

A portrait of Irwin recently replaced one of Greer in Australia's National Portrait Gallery, bringing the controversy back to public attention
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=228364

[Cobalt-60]

1. she's speaking ill of the dead

This is a major load of negative karma.
And she's p*ssed off a lot of loyal fans who apparently aren't shy about expressing their distaste.

[ForrestGump]

2. She's as woefully uninformed about Steve Irwin's real and significant

contributions as the grave-urinating f**wits who proliferated here on DU immediately after his death.

How's that for "honesty and directness," you burko bloody sheila...

Not all that manly? Give me a break.

[SoCalDem]

3. When I think of wildlife, germaine Greer's is not the first name that pops into my head.

She's entitled to her opinion, she voiced it, and now she just needs to let him rest in peace..

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Did she cook up the rabbits?

[blitzen]

5. Someone looks "manly" in that story!

That inset pic is a rather unsubtle irony...