Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women have been called drabs, slommacks, traipses, malkins, draggletails, blowens, bawdy baskets and bobtails. As for the act of sex, Greer likes the obsolete word swive because it has no vulgar linguistic emphasis on "the poking element...
...redirect that energy? Back to active sexuality for women, Greer's triumphant answer to everything. Anyway, she says, "men are tired of having all the responsibility for sex; it is time they were relieved...
Many American feminists assume that a woman's libido must be denied if she wants to get on in the world. Quite the contrary, says Greer. What vitiates women's energy is their suppression of their sexuality. Nor does Greer agree with the radical women who believe in giving up men as a revolutionary tactic. Sex, she says, is the arena of confrontation in which new values must be hammered...
Forget about Organs. Greer is also concerned about the "clitoromania" of some of her American sisters. Freud believed that in the psychosexually mature woman, the primary erogenous zone was the vagina, but Masters and Johnson found the clitoris equally important. Women's Lib theoreticians were delighted, and Anne Koedt's pamphlet called The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm has become an important part of the liberation canon, bought today even by high school girls with inquiring minds. Greer takes bold issue with the notion of "the utter passivity and even irrelevance of the vagina." It is time...
...Greer also has some pragmatic criticism of the U.S. movement. Mrs. Friedan's vaunted accomplishment in desegregating Help Wanted columns simply meant that "more qualified women wasted more time and energy reading about, applying for and being rejected from jobs they had no chance of getting in the first place." As for the demand that women should get equal pay for equal work, Greer thinks it is much ado about little. The hard fact is that women very seldom do equal work. This is partly their own fault. "Opportunities have been made available to women far beyond their desires...